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  • #76
    March 19

    1848

    Wyatt Earp was born in Illinois.

    1905

    Albert Speer, Hitler’s Architect was born.

    1906

    Adolf Eichmann was born in Solingen, Germany. He was raised in Austria. He joined the Nazi party in 1932, moved back to Germany in 1933 and into Himmler’s SD the following year. He was promoted SS Obersturmbannfuehrer in 1941 and he supervised the deportation of Jews from all Nazi occupied areas to the death camps in Poland. Working always as a desk jockey he was so little known that, even though he was arrested by the Americans in 1945, he was only interned and escaped to Argentina in 1946.The Israeli’s kidnapped him from Argentina in 1960. He was tried and sentenced to death in 1961 and executed in Ramleh Prison May 31, 1962.

    1912

    Adolf Galland, WW2 Air Ace and Germany’s youngest General was born.

    1978

    The UN General Assembly passes Resolution 425 calling for the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon. UNIFIL was established.

    1988

    During the funeral of Caoimhin MacBradaigh, a member of the IRA who was killed at Milltown Cemetery on March 16th, two British soldiers, Derek Wood and Robert Howes, dressed in civilian clothes drove into the funeral procession. They were dragged from the car, stripped, beaten and killed.

    2003

    Operation Iraqi Freedom began with cruise missile and air attacks on Iraqi targets.

    Died

    1916

    Two Belfast men executed by Firing Squad.

    15/890 Rifleman James Templeton. 15th Bn., Royal Irish Rifles. Age 20.

    15/13211 Rifleman James McCracken. 15th Bn., Royal Irish Rifles. Age 19.

    Both buried in Mailly-Maillet Communal Cemetery Extension.

    1917

    29878 Cpl George Anderson, Royal Artillery. Died Western Front from Tallow, Co. Waterford.
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    • #77
      March 20

      1877

      Thomas Fisher, a member of the Molly Maguires, was hung in Pennsylvania one of 19 miners of Irish descent to be executed that year. He was convicted of the murder of Morgan Powell a mining company supervisor.

      1815

      Napoleon Bonaparte entered Paris to rule as Emperor again, though this time for only 100 days, culminating in the Battle of Waterloo.

      1890

      Kaiser Wilhelm II sacked his Chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck. Bismarck was the man who had engineered the unification of Germany into one state dominated by Prussia. And we all know where that got us.


      1920

      A Constable McMurtagh of the RIC was killed in Cork. Two hours later a group of masked men arrived at the house of Tomás MacCurtain, Mayor of Cork - and a leading member of the IRA. Two men pushed past his wife and went straight upstairs to a bedroom where they killed MacCurtain. The killers were believed to be members of the RIC avenging their dead comrade. The leader was supposed to be District Inspector Oswald Swanzy. An inquest returned a verdict of wilful murder against Swanzy and also - for good measure - against the British Prime Minister, the Viceroy of Ireland, and the Inspector - General of the RIC. Swanzy was transferred to his home town of Lisburn, where he was murdered a few months later.

      1921

      5 RIC men were wounded in Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary. They were Head Constable Neary, Constables Doyle, Kinsella, Roberts and Woodford.

      1964

      Brendan Behan died aged 41.

      1976

      Patty Hearst, heiress to a fortune was convicted of bank robbery. She is probably the most famous example of Stockholm Syndrome. She was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army and eventually joined the gang.

      1993

      The Provos struck another decisive blow for Irish freedom by killing two children in Warrington. The victims were Jonathan Ball age 3 and Tim Parry age 12. The man who ordered the murders is Sinn Fein’s director of elections in Wexford.

      1999

      The Serbian army launched a big offensive in Kosovo north of Pristina.

      Died

      1918

      33254 Pte Thomas Donegan, 2nd Bn Royal Welch Fusiliers. Died in Scotland, from Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

      1920

      Killed in Toomevara, Co. Tipperary.


      69198 Con Charles Healy RIC. KIA. Born Co. Cork 1894.
      67945 Con James Rocke RIC. Died of Wounds. Born Co. Galway 1893.

      Tomás MacCurtain, IRA. Killed by the RIC in Cork.

      1921

      62454 Con William Campbell RIC. Shot and killed at his home in Mulinahone, Co. Tipperary. He was born in Co. Leitrim in 1883.

      1982

      Pte Gerard Hodges, 12th Inf Bn from Co. Kerry. He died at home of injuries received in Lebanon when a petrol-fired cooker exploded.
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      • #78
        March 21

        1918
        The Great German Offensive began on the Western Front. Heavy German artillery hit all areas of British front occupied by Fifth Army, most of the front of Third Army, and some of the front of First Army, at 4.40am. The main weight of attack was between Arras and a few miles south of Saint-Quentin.
        The barrage concentrated on British artillery and machine-gun positions, headquarters, telephone exchanges, railways and other important centres of communications.
        German infantry began to attack between 7.00am and 9.40am under cover of dense fog. New infiltration tactics used specially trained storm troops to probe forward through gaps in British defences regardless of what was happening either side, while follow-up units besieged and engaged British posts and defended villages. Many of these held out, and only fell once entirely surrounded and hopeless.
        By noon the Germans had captured Fifth Army's Forward Zone with the exception of the garrisons of the edoubts that were still holding on even though surrounded. The troops that had been holding the Forward Zone were mostly lost, killed or taken prisoner as they were quickly surrounded by the enemy who had moved up unseen in the fog.
        The ferocity of the fighting is demonstrated by the casualty lists below.

        Irish VC winner on 21/3/1918

        Second Lieutenant Edmund De Wind, 15th Bn Royal Irish Rifles, from Comber, Co. Down was awarded a Victoria Cross for holding his platoon position at Racecourse Redoubt, Groagie, France for seven hours. He was wounded twice and on two occasions he had to lead men out of his trench into heavy fire to clear it of enemy. He died of his wounds that day. A street in Comber is named in his honour. The blasted Canadians have the cheek to claim him also as he worked in Calgary from 1910 to 1914 when he enlisted in the 31st Bn, Canadian Expeditionary Force. He was commissioned in April 1917 into the RIR.

        1945

        Second Lieutenant Claud Raymond son of a Co. Kerry family, was awarded a VC for his part in a diversionary attack in the Arakan area of Burma. Wounded three times in fighting the Japanese, Lt Raymond refused medical assistance until his men had been treated and they had begun to withdraw to their landing craft, when he finally collapsed. He died of his wounds on March 22nd.


        Died
        1918
        2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt


        11398 Pte William Dwyer. Fethard, Co.Tipperary
        7489 Pte Edward English. Clonmel, Co.Tipperary
        10123 Pte Matthew Fitzpatrick. Slieverue, Co. Waterford
        11467 Pte Patrick Flynn. Co.Tipperary.
        6430 Pte Thomas Green. Waterford City.
        7495 Pte Thomas Lee. Ballybricken, Co. Waterford
        9691 Pte Thomas Moroney. Ballyneale, Co. Tipperary
        5962 Pte James O’Brien MM. Co. Waterford
        7645 Pte John Walsh. Waterford City.
        8033 Pte Thomas Weston. Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary
        1781 Pte Peter Wright. Glenmore, Co. Waterford.

        Total fatalties 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt on this day 73

        7th Bn Royal Irish Regt

        1983 Pte Richard Barry MM. Waterford City.
        7357 Pte James Downey. Grange, Co. Waterford.
        25311 Pte Adam Gaffney. Waterford City.
        8936 Pte John Russell. Killenaule, Co. Tipperary.

        Total fatalties 7th Bn Royal Irish Regt on this day 78

        2nd Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers

        27485 Pte James Butler. Clonmel.
        25760 Pte Patrick Kirwan, Knocklofty, Co.Tipperary.

        Total fatalties 2nd Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers on this day 112

        2nd Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers

        18219 Pte James Keogh. Cashel, Co.Tipperary.

        Total fatalties 2nd Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers on this day 50



        7/8th Bn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

        26509 Pte John Lannon. Kilmacthomas, Co. Waterford.
        26934 Pte Robert O’Neill. Waterford City.

        Total fatalties 7/8th Bn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on this day 94

        All the above units were in the 16th Irish Division which suffered 563 fatalities on 21 March 1918. This represented approximately 10% of the divisional infantry. The 16th Division was in constant contact with the enemy until April 4th by which time it had suffered 7, 149 men killed, wounded and missing. The strength of the division was 1,278 all ranks. This was a little more than a full infantry battalion.

        Machine Gun Corps

        43299 Pte John Nugent. Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
        43320 Pte William Sullivan. Waterford City.

        1963

        Cpl John McGrath died in the Congo.

        1989

        Killed in a landmine explosion near Brashit, Lebanon while serving with 64th Irishbatt UNIFIL.

        Cpl Fintan Heneghan
        Pte Thomas Walsh
        Pte Mannix Armstrong
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        • #79
          March 22

          1855

          At Sebastapol in the Crimea Sgt George Gardiner, 57th Foot, led a counter attack to recapture trenches from a Russian sallying party. Another display of courage during an assault on the town in June led to his being awarded the Victoria Cross. Born in Co. Down in 1821 he died in Lifford, Co. Donegal in 1891.

          A Ballymena man won the VC at the same place and date. Pte Alexander Wright of the 77th Foot, distinguished himself in repelling an enemy attack on his position and in further actions in April and August. He died in Calcutta in 1858.

          1907

          General James Gavin was born. He commanded the US 82nd Airborne Division at Nijmegen and in the Battle of the Bulge.

          1941

          German aircraft sank the Irish registered vessel, St Fintan off the Welsh coast. She was en route from Drogheda to Cardiff when attacked and sunk 7 miles off the Pembrokeshire coast.

          1963

          The Profumo scandal hots up with John Profumo the British Minister for Defence denying sleeping with Christine Keeler. Ms Keeler was also sleeping with a Soviet military attaché at the time.

          1968

          After the Tet Offensive General Westmoreland was relieved as US commander in Vietnam. He was replaced by General Abrams.

          1979

          Two members of the IRA assassinated Sir Richard Sykes, British ambassador to the Netherlands, and his 19-year-old footman, Karel Straub, outside his residence at The Hague.

          It was a bad year for British establishment figures- Airey Neave and Lord Mountbatten were murdered also.

          1981

          Patsy O’Hara (INLA) and Raymond McCreesh (IRA) began their hunger strikes in the Maze Prison.

          1983

          Irish-born Chaim Herzog was elected president of Israel.


          2003

          US and British forces were well inside Iraq and Basra was surrounded. Two RN helicopters collided over the Persian Gulf killing 7 personnel.

          Died

          1915

          5739 Sgt John O’Brien, 3rd Bn Royal Irish Regt. Died at home in Clonmel Co. Tipperary.

          11208 Pte John Ross, 2nd Bn The Royal Scots. KIA Western Front. From Waterford.

          1918

          1929 Cpl Michael Coman, 7th Bn The Leinster Regt. Died in France. From Cashel, Co. Tipperary.

          18191 Pte Patrick Coughlan, 2nd Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers. Died in France. From Clonmel Co. Tipperary.

          11618 Pte Thomas Kennedy, 8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars. Died in France. From Clonmel Co. Tipperary.

          3052 Pte Bernard McKeown, 9th Bn Loyal North Lancashire Regt. Died in France. From Clonmel Co. Tipperary.

          1941

          aboard the St Fintan

          Captain Neil Hendry, Isle of Arran, Scotland, aged 61.
          Mate Matthew Leonard, Rush, Co Dublin, aged 46.
          1st Engineer James Howat, Paisley,Scotland, aged 41.
          2nd Engineer Carl Fritzson, Dublin, aged 41.
          Bosun B Plunkett, Dublin, aged 27.
          Fireman Joseph Jones, Crumlin, Dublin.
          Fireman, William O Brien, Dublin, aged 40.
          Able Seaman Diarmuid O Beirne, Dublin, aged 18.
          Able Seaman M O Donnell, Dublin, aged 49.
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          • #80
            March 23

            1881

            The 1st Boer War came to an end officially with the signing of a treaty between Britain and the Boers.

            1932

            Britain warned the Irish Government that the Oath of Loyalty was mandatory.

            1999

            NATO forces got the go ahead from Javier Solana to launch air strikes on the Serbs after the failure of Kosovo peace talks.

            Died

            1915

            51899 Pte John Guerins, Depot Royal Munster Fusiliers. Died at Home. From Cappoquin, Co. Waterford.

            1918

            5259 Lance Cpl. John Brown, 14th Bn Royal Irish Rifles. KIA France. From Corbally, Co. Waterford.

            359688 Sapper John Harney, Royal Engineers. KIA France. From Waterford.

            19987 Rifleman John Mc Lean, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Rifles. KIA France. Born Cappoquin, Co. Waterford.

            6013 Pte Arthur Pittaway, 5th Royal Irish Lancers. KIA France. From Waterford.

            9524 Pte Stephen Walsh, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt. KIA France. From Cashel, Co. Tipperary.

            1920

            Vol James McCarthy, IRA. KIA Thurles, Co. Tipperary.

            Thomas O’Dwyer, civilian, originally from Bouladuff, Co. Tipperary. Killed by the Black and Tans in Miltown Malbay in revenge for an RIC man who was shot in his pub a few days previously.
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            • #81
              March 24

              1603

              Queen Elizabeth I died after 45 years on the throne of England. James VI of Scotland became James 1 of England, uniting the two crowns and initiating a century of civil war and conflict in England, Scotland and Ireland. Ultimately the two countries were, of course, formally united as the UK.

              1909

              John Millington Synge, playwright, died in Dublin.

              1923

              The Republican executive met in a cottage near the village of Ballymacarbry to discuss a truce in the Civil War. De Valera was for the proposal. Liam Lynch against. The truce proposal was defeated 6 votes to 5. Due to Free State Army activity in the area the executive had to split up. Some were captured within a few days. Lynch had just over 2 weeks to live.

              1944

              The Great Escape- the event on which the book and film were based- took place when 76 Allied fliers escaped from Stalag Luft 3 in Germany.

              1968

              An Aer Lingus plane, the St. Phelim, crashes into the sea near Tuskar Rock, Co. Wexford, with the loss of all 61 passengers and crew.


              1972

              In Northern Ireland, Stormont was suspended and direct rule imposed.

              1999

              NATO Air Forces begin bombing Serbia.

              Died

              1915

              9692 Pte Edward Walsh, 1st Bn Royal Irish Regt. KIA Western Front. From Butlerstown, Co. Waterford.

              1918

              18139 Pte Patrick Cuffe, Machine Gun Corps. KIA Western Front. From Tallow, Co. Waterford.

              1976

              Field Marshal Sir B L Montgomery.
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              • #82
                March 25

                1944

                Sgt Nicholas Alkemade of the RAF bailed out of a Lancaster bomber without a parachute, which had been shredded by shrapnel. He fell 18,000 feet and survived, he landed in a Fir tree and then into a snow drift.

                1957

                The signing of the Treaty of Rome founded the European Economic Community.


                Died

                1915

                4754 Pte Thomas Bishop, 1st Bn Royal Irish Regt. Died at Home. From Cashel, Co. Tipperary.

                1942

                First Radio Officer Godfrey Shaw, Merchant Navy. S.S. Tredinnick. Age 56. Son of John and Alice Shaw, Bray, Co. Wicklow


                Third Engineer Officer Alexander Smythe, Merchant Navy. M.V. Narragansett. Age 32. Husband of Mary Jane Smythe, Carlow.

                1971

                Sgt Thomas Beirne. 2nd Royal Australian Regt. KIA in Vietnam. He was from Belfast.
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                • #83
                  March 26

                  2233

                  Captain James T Kirk will be born this day 229 years from now. :D

                  Died

                  1923

                  Capt Percy Dillon, Free State Army. KIA. Born Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
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                  • #84
                    March 27

                    1599

                    Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, was appointed to command Queen Elizabeth’s troops in Ireland. Unfortunately for the Earl he was well out of his depth. He undertook a pointless campaign in Munster, where one of his culverin balls lodged in the wall of Cahir Castle and is still there today. Turning to Ulster he was tricked into a truce by the Earl of Tyrone and he then abandoned his army and returned to England. Elizabeth was not pleased. In disgrace he plotted a rebellion with James VI of Scotland and with his successor in Ireland, Lord Mountjoy. Captured and sent to the Tower of London he was beheaded on February 25th 1601.

                    1625

                    Charles I was crowned King of England, Ireland and Scotland. He was beheaded in 1649.

                    1650

                    Kilkenny surrendered to Oliver Cromwell.

                    1839

                    John Ballance was born in Glenavy, Co. Antrim. At twenty-four, he married Fanny Taylor. Her poor health encouraged them to emigrate to New Zealand. John founded the Evening Herald, later called the Wanganui Herald. He entered Parliament in 1875 and held the posts of Colonial Treasurer (1878), Minister of Lands, Native Affairs and Defence(1884-7) and Liberal Prime Minister (1891-3). He worked to improve relations with the Maoris and was instrumental in giving women the vote, making New Zealand the first country in the world to do so.

                    1872

                    Mary McSwiney was born in London. She was the sister of Terence Mcswiney. Like her brotehr she became a Republican, joining Sinn Féin, Cumann na mBan and working for Women's Suffrage. She was interned after the 1916 Rebellion and elected to Parliament for SF in 1918. The SF candidates formed the first Dáil in 1919 after this election. She opposed the 1921 Treaty and was imprisoned in Mountjoy and Kilmainham during the Civil War, spending 24 days on hunger-strike. She dies in 1942.

                    1917

                    28 year old Lt Frederick Harvey of Lord Stratcona's Horse, earned a Victoria Cross at Guyencourt, France when he captured a German machine gun position, single-handed.

                    Lt Harvey was born in Athboy, Co. Meath. Despite this fact he is claimed by the blasted Canadians. Harvey also earned a Military Cross in 1918 and rose to the rank of Brigadier. He is one of three VCs who played for Wanderers Rugby Club in Dublin.


                    1999

                    A US F-117A stealth fighter was shot down over Yugoslavia during a NATO airstrike. The pilot was rescued by US forces.

                    2003

                    During Operation Iraqi Freedom a British armored unit destroyed 14 Iraqi tanks trying to break out of Basra. Meanwhile ships attempting to land supplies at the port of Umm Qasr had to be halted after Iraqi mines were discovered in the shipping channel.

                    Died

                    1915

                    9061 Pte James Hearne, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt. KIA Western Front. He was from Waterford.

                    1916

                    4414 Pte James English, 9th Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers. KIA Western Front. He was from Waterford.

                    1917

                    39213 Pte Arthur Hamilton, Durham Light Infantry. From Belfast, he was executed by firing squad. Buried in Nouex Les Mines Communal Cemetery.


                    1918

                    3297 Pte William O'Keeffe 2nd Bn Leinster Regt. KIA Western Front. He was from Waterford.

                    1921

                    Vol Sean O’Leary, IRA. From Killarney, Co. Kerry he died of Wounds in Nenagh Co. Tipperary.

                    1923

                    Comdt Matthew Ryan, IRA. Died of Wounds Foilduff, Co. Tipperary

                    Comdt John Sheehy, IRA. KIA Foilduff, Co. Tipperary.
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                    • #85
                      1790: The shoelace invented.
                      1841: 1st US steam fire engine tested, New York NY.
                      1855: Abraham Gesner patents kerosene.
                      1866: Andrew Rankin patents the urinal.
                      1884: 1st long-distance telephone call, Boston-New York.
                      1912: 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Washington DC.
                      1914: 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels).
                      1991: New Kids on the Block's Donnie Wahlberg arrested on arson charges in Kentucky.

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                      • #86
                        2004: Ireland win Triple Crown after beating Scotland 37-16:-patriot:
                        It was the year of fire...the year of destruction...the year we took back what was ours.
                        It was the year of rebirth...the year of great sadness...the year of pain...and the year of joy.
                        It was a new age...It was the end of history.
                        It was the year everything changed.

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                        • #87
                          It was nice to see Peter Stringer getting over for a try too.

                          It was Ireland's seventh Triple Crown win, out of 104 possibles. The others were 1894, 1899, 1948, 1949, 1982 and 1985. 1948 was the year we won the Grand Slam also.
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                          • #88
                            March 28

                            1820

                            Sir William Howard Russell was born in Tallaght, Co. Dublin. He was the Times' "Man in the Crimea"

                            1854

                            Britain and France declared war on Russia, starting the Crimean War.

                            1879

                            At Zlobane Mountain, during the Zulu War, Waterford-man Pte Edmund Fowler of the 2nd Bn Scottish Rifles accompanied a Lieutenant and a Captain up a narrow path to a cave held by Zulu warriors. The Captain was killed in the attack but Fowler and Lt Lysdon cleared the cave of enemy soldiers for which action they each received a VC.

                            Major William Leet from Dalkey Co. Dublin earned his VC at Inlobana while serving with the 13th Foot, for rescuing a dismounted member of the Frontier Light Horse under enemy fire.

                            Terence MacSwiney, SF Lord Mayor of Cork, was born. He died on Hunger Strike in London in 1920.

                            1898

                            The US Supreme Court ruled that a child born in the United States to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen, and therefore could not be deported under the Chinese Exclusion Act. Michael McDowell please note.

                            1939

                            The Spanish Civil War ended.

                            1944

                            Nell McCafferty, journalist, writer and feminist, was born in Derry. Her favourite subject is Nell McCafferty.

                            1955

                            John Alderdice was born in Ballymena.

                            1957

                            Patrick "Jack" B. Yeats, Ireland's leading painter of the 20th century, died.

                            1981

                            Martin Hurson (IRA) started a hunger strike in the Maze Prison.

                            Died

                            1916

                            Serving with 7th Bn The Leinster Regt, Loos, France

                            1962 Pte James Maher from Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. Killed in action.

                            2778 Pte Maurice Ryan from Portlaw, Co. Waterford. DOW

                            1918

                            Lt Col Herbert Ireland. 2nd Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

                            6366 L/Cpl Christopher O'Reilly, 1st Bn Irish Guards. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
                            1943


                            Fourth Engineer Officer Michael Hart, Merchant Navy. Aboard the M.V. Silverbeech. He was the son of Joseph and Winifred Hart, Oakpark, Co. Kerry. Age 27.

                            1969

                            Cpl Sean Doran, 25th Division US Army. He was from Dublin. and was killed in Vietnam.
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                            • #89
                              March 29

                              1850

                              The Dublin Steam Packet Company’s ship SS Royal Adelaide en route from Cork to London, sank in storm on the Tongue Sands, off Margate with the loss of all passengers and crew.

                              1855

                              At Sebastopol in the Crimea, Private William Coffey of the 34th Foot picked up a live shell, which had fallen into his trench, and threw it over the parapet saving many lives. For which act he was awarded a Victoria Cross. William Coffey was born in Knocklong, Co Limerick, in January 1829 and died in England in 1875.

                              1859

                              The Irish Times was published for the first time.

                              1869

                              James MacNeill, Governor-General of the Irish Free State from 1928 to 1932, was born in Glenarm, Co. Antrim.

                              1873

                              Peig Sayers, the nmost miserable woman in Ireland, ever, was born in Dunquin, Co. Kerry. Thousands of Irish school-children have cursed that day.:D

                              1879

                              After yesterday’s victory at Hlobane, 20,000 Zulu tribesmen attempted to finish off Colonel Henry Evelyn Wood’s column at Khambula.About 2,000 British and Colonial troops including the 90th Light Infantry, Edmund Fowler’s unit, were dug in and ready for them. The assault ended in defeat for the Zulus.

                              1886

                              Coca Cola went on sale in Atlanta for the first time.

                              1912

                              Polar explorer Capt. Robert Scott, sheltering from a storm in a tent near the South Pole, madethe last entry in his diary. It read "the end cannot be far."

                              1971

                              Lt. Calley was convicted of murdering 22 Vietnamese civilians in the 1968 My Lai massacre. He spent three years under house arrest.

                              1973

                              The last US soldiers left South Vietnam.

                              1999

                              NATO bombing of Serbian forces in Kosovo continued. Albania and Macedonia appealed for help as they were swamped by refugees fleeing Kosovo. Montenegro claimed that over 30,000 refugees had taken asylum there. NATO said Serbs were targeting ethnic Albanian leadership for executions and the US accused Milosevic of crimes against humanity. Montenegran President, Milo Djukanovic, made a plea for an end to the NATO bombing campaign.

                              Died

                              1918

                              79988 2nd Corp Patrick Collins, Royal Engineers. KIA Western Front. From Waterford.

                              1923

                              Vol John Sheedy, IRA. KIA Cureeney, Co. Tipperary.
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                              • #90
                                March 30

                                1533

                                Henry VIII divorced his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, in defiance of the Pope. This event led to the Reformation and has buggered Irish history to this day.

                                1603

                                At the Battle at Mellifont, the English army under Lord Mountjoy beat the Irish army commanded by Red Hugh O'Neill, the Earl of Ulster. Red Hugh finally called it a day, ended the Nine Years War and submitted to English rule, meeting Mountjoy at Mellifont Abbey.

                                1814

                                The Duke of Wellington’s Army occupied Paris.

                                1851

                                A census showed the population of Ireland to be 6,552,385: it has declined by one-fifth (2.1 million) since 1845. At the same time the number of Irish in England and Wales has increased by 79% since 1841. Nearly a quarter of Liverpool and over 18% of the people of Glasgow and Dundee were Irish-born.

                                1873

                                Richard Church, from Co. Cork, soldier and "liberator of Greece," died in Athens.


                                1880

                                Sean O'Casey, playwright, was born. His plays portrayed the gritty side of life in Dublin’s slums where he was born. Nationalist, Socialist, Protestant and largely self-educated, his first plays (The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, and The Plough and the Stars ) were set during the 1916-1923 period and, unusually, did not depict the mythological version of the periods events. He died in 1964.

                                1979

                                The INLA killed Conservative MP Airey Neave with a bomb planted in his car. It exploded as he left the underground car park of the House of Commons. Neave was a close friend of Conservative leader, Margaret Thatcher and Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary. The bombing was supposed to have occurred to coincide with the announcement of a general election, the day before. The Conservatives went on to win and Margaret Thatcher became PM. On a military note Neave was captured during the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 and became the first British Officer to escape from Colditz Castle.

                                1981

                                John Hinckley Jr. shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan in Washington apparently because he had a crush on Jodie Foster. I find that hard to believe. Ashley Judd maybe, but not Jodie Foster. :D The object of his affections went on to win a best actress Oscar this day in 1992 for “The Silence of the Lambs”.

                                1996

                                Hezbollah fired 30 Katyusha rockets into northern Israel. Israel responded by shelling 15 South Lebanese villages.

                                Died

                                1941

                                Able Seaman Edward Kavanagh, Merchant Navy. Aboard the S.S. Eastlea. Age 29. Son of Denis and Julia Kavanagh, Arklow, Co. Wicklow.

                                1942

                                Boatswain, Cornelius Farley, Merchant Navy. Aboard the S.S. Induna. Age 36. Son of Cornelius and Catherine Farley, Kinsale, Co. Cork. The Induna was part of Convoy PQ-13, sailing from Reykjavik, Iceland to Murmansk, Russia and was sunk by U-376 in the Barents Sea with only 19 men surviving the attack and 4 days adrift in a lifeboat. 31 crew died in the sinking.
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                                Say NO to violence against Women

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                                My favourite moment was when the
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                                red headed old dear got a smack on her ginger head

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