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May 15th
1536
Anne Boleyn, Sir Francis Weston, William Brereton, Mark Smeaton, Sir Henry Norris and Lord Rochford (Anne’s brother, George) were tried for adultery, and treason. Anne and George were also tried for incest. They were caught up in the intrigues of Henry VIII’s court but the charges were almost certainly false. Nevertheless they were found guilty, with Lady Rochford testifying for the prosecution, and went to the headsman’s block in the Tower of London, the five men on May 17th, Anne two days later. Anne’s daughter Elizabeth, would eventually become Queen of England. Anne Boleyn’s cousin, Catherine Howard, had the bad luck to become the 5th wife of Henry VIII. In 1542 she met the same fate as her cousin. And, poetic justice, Lady Rochford went to the block at the same time.
1702
The War of the Spanish Succession began. Despite the name it was fought mostly between the French and the British and largely in Belgium. The Royal Regiment of Ireland took part in most of the battles of which Blenheim is the most famous. The British General in Command was John Churchill who got a Dukedom out of it, and became the Duke of Marlborough. He was an ancestor of Winston Churchill.
1756
The Seven Years War began between the French and Britain (unusual that). A lot of the fighting was for control of North America.
1847
Daniel O'Connell, died in Genoa, Italy. His body was returned to Ireland and buried in Glasnevin Cemetery.
1867
Eoin MacNeill, was born in Co. Antrim.
1943
The Irish Oak was sunk in the Atlantic. There were no casualties.
1948
Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon invaded the new state of Israel. Bad move.
Died
1915
10300 Pte Michael Cooke from Mooncoin, Co. Kilkenny. KIA at Ypres with 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt.
1916
W/871 L/Cpl Jeremiah J. Sheehan from Cappagh, Co. Waterford was Killed in action on the Western Front with 13th Bn Cheshire Regt.
5054 Pte John Walsh from Waterford died of wounds on the Western Front serving with 2nd Bn Leinster Regt.
1918
Seaman Michael Moroney serving in the Merchant Navy was lost at sea. He was from Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.
1921
70812 Constable Thomas Gallivan, RIC, Born Ballylongford, Co. Kerry, disappeared in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary.
71087 Constable John Nutley who was born in Co. Galway June 18th 1898, was shot dead in Bansha, Co. Tipperary.
1968
Capt Edward Landers from Oola Co. Limerick was killed in action in Vietnam, serving with 1st Div, US Army.sigpic
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No thats the 4th October (1957)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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1945
The Nazi submarine U-234 surrendered to US forces at Portsmouth, NH. It had been bound for Tokyo with 10 containers of uranium oxide. The atomic material ended up in the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
1958
A man endured a record 82.6 G for .04 seconds on a water-braked rocket sled at Holloman Air Force Base. He was hospitalized for 3 days for recovery.
1963
After 22 Earth orbits Gordon Cooper returned to Earth in Friendship Seven, ending Project Mercury.
1969
Venera 5 landed on Venus and returned data on atmosphere.
1992
The space shuttle Endeavour completed its maiden voyage with a safe landing in the California desert.
1997
The space shuttle Atlantis docked with Russia's Mir station.sigpic
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May 17th
1536
The five men accused of adultery with Anne Boleyn were beheaded in the Tower of London.
1650
Cromwell's troops besieging Clonmel launch a second assault on the breach in the town’s north wall. The defenders allow the troops through the breach into a barricaded lane where heavy losses were inflicted on the Roundheads. A figure of 1500 dead is often quoted though the bodies have never been located. Despite this victory the defence of the town was on it’s last legs.
1880
Charles Stewart Parnell was elected Chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party.
1974
33 people died when Loyalist terrorists detonated four car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan. In Dublin the first bomb of three exploded about 5.30pm in Parnell St, the second a few minutes later in Talbot St and the third in South Leinster St. An hour and a half later on North Road, Monaghan a car bomb exploded outside Archie Harpers Bar in the town. This last was probably designed to draw the security forces away from the terrorist’s escape route back to the North. Amazingly the Gardai and successive spineless Irish governments have failed to properly investigate the atrocity, quite possibly because there is circumstantial evidence that the bombings were carried out by proxy on behalf of the British security forces. The dead are listed below.
Died
1915
5754 L/Cpl John Martin, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers. Died on the Western Front. He left a wife, Annie Martin at home at 13, Quin's Lane, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. He is buried in Wimereux Communal Cemetery, France.
3028 Pte Edward Power, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt. Died of wounds at home. From Waterford.
1916
18447 Pte Patrick Cronin from Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, died of wounds on the Western Front serving with 7th Bn Northahmptonshire Regt.
1974
Murdered in Dublin by Loyalist Car bombs.
Marie Butler age 21, a nurse from Cappoquin, County Waterford.
John Dargle age 80, Ballybough, Dublin.
Patrick Fay age 47, Artane, Dublin.
Antonio Magliocco age 37, an Italian living in Shankill, County Dublin .
John O'Brien age 24, Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin.
Anne O'Brien age 22, Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin. Wife of John O'Brien.
Jacqueline O'Brien age 16 months daughter of John and Anne
Anne Marie O'Brien age 4 months daughter of John and Anne
Edward O'Neill age 39, Lower Dominick Street, Dublin
Breda Turner age 21, from Thurles, County Tipperary.
Josie Bradley age 21, from Kilcormack, County Offaly. Single.
Anne Byrne age 35, Donaghmede, Dublin.
Simone Chetrit age 30 from Paris, France.
Concepta Dempsey age 65, Drogheda, County Louth. She died of her injuries on 11th June 1974.
Colette Doherty age 21, Sheriff Street, Dublin.
Elizabeth Fitzgerald age 59, Phibsboro Place, Dublin. She died on 19th May 1974.
Breda Grace age 35, from Tralee, County Kerry.
Mary McKenna age 55), from Dungannon, County Tyrone.
Anne Marren age 20, from Ballymote, County Sligo.
Dorothy Morris age 57, Kimmage, Dublin.
Marie Phelan age 20, from Woodstown, County Waterford.
Siobhán Roice age 19, from Wexford Town.
Maureen Shields age 44, Artane, Dublin.
John Walshe age 27, Crumlin, Dublin.
Anne Massey age 21, Sallynoggin, Dublin.
Christina O'Loughlin age 51, Townsend Street, Dublin.
Murdered in Monaghan by Loyalist Car bombs.
Patrick Askin age 44, Glaslough, County Monaghan.
Thomas Campbell age 52, Crumlin, County Monaghan.
Thomas Croarkin age 35, Tyholland, County Monaghan. Died 24th July 1974.
Archie Harper age 73, Rockcorry, Monaghan. Died 21st May 1974.
Jack Travers age 29, Park Street, Monaghan.
Peggy White age 44, Belgium Park, Monaghan.
George Williamson age 73, Castleshane, County Monaghan.sigpic
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May 18th
1650
The Mayor of Clonmel, John White, attended mass in St Mary’s Church before going out to meet Oliver Cromwell. He was about to negotiate the surrender of the town. He did so successfully and the Lord Protector forgot to stipulate that the garrison must also surrender. Eoin O’Neill led his troops out of the town that night and made for Waterford. Cromwell was enraged but stuck to his agreement.
1803
Britain declared war on Napoleon's France. 12 years of practically continuous warfare ensued, fought largely in Spain and making the Duke of Wellington famous. We also inherited the famous battles of Trafalgar and Waterloo.
1915
Ist Bn Irish Guards as part of 4th Guards Bde, attacked a small group of buildings at the Farm Cour l'Avoine, as part of the battle of Festubert In the late afternoon, in driving rain they left their trenches and moved through heavy machine gun fire gaining about three hundred yards in three hours fighting.During the night they suffered German artillery bombardment. Next day they were ordered back to their start position, moving in small groups. The battalion lost 22 men killed , 284 wounded and 86 missing.
1920
Karol Wojtyla is 84 today. We know him better as Pope John Paul II.
1944
The Polish 2nd Army Corps finally captured Monte Cassino for the Allies The four-month battle had claimed 20,000 lives.
1947
John Bruton, former Taoiseach, was born.
Died
1915
Killed in action serving with 1st Bn Irish Guards at Festubert, France
4185 Sergeant James Harris, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.
2193 Pte Michael Cullen, Dunmore, Co. Waterford.
5834 Pte Martin Ducey, Modeligo, Co. Waterford.
865 Pte James Maher, Waterford.
3775 Pte Charles McCarthy, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
1918
S2/05597 Sgt John Murphy, RASC. Died on the Western Front.
1951
PFC William Collins from Co. Limerick KIA in Korea serving with 2nd Inf Div, US Army.
PFC William Murphy from Cork City. Died in captivity in North Korea. He had been captured on Feb 12th and was a member of the 2nd Inf Div.
1995
Garda Sgt Paul Reid. Died in Bosnia.sigpic
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May 19th
1536
Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII, was beheaded in the Tower of London.
1870
At a meeting in Dublin, Isaac Butt inaugurated the Home Rule movement in a speech demanding an Irish parliament for local affairs. On this platform he was elected in 1871 for Limerick, and found himself at the head of an Irish Home Rule party of fifty-seven members.
1935
T. E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, died from head injuries sustained six days earlier, in a motorcycle accident in Dorset.
Thomas Edward Lawrence was born in Wales in 1888 and naturally, as he was to be a great soldier, he was of Irish extraction. His father was Sir Thomas Chapman who abandoned his wife and daughters on the family estate in Co. Westmeath and eloped with the girls' Governess, Sarah Junner. Sarah was the illegitimate child of a man named Lawrence, thus the new family name.
Thomas studied archaeology at Oxford and worked in Mesopotamia and Palestine before the war. Obtaining a commission at the start of the war, Lawrence worked in Military Intelligence in Cairo before becoming Liaison Officer with the Arab Revolt. From Saudi Arabia to Syria his Arab guerrilas tied down the Turkish forces that could have been used against the British forces in Palestine and Mesopotamia.
In 1919 Lawrence worked with the British delegation at the Paris Peace conference where he promoted the cause of Arab independence, unsuccessfully as it turned out. About this time too an American journalist, named Lowell Thomas, made him famous with the British public, who had never heard of his exploits during the war.
By 1922 Lawrence was a civilian, living in Oxford and writing his books The Seven Pillars of Wisdom and Revolt in the desert. He decided to enlist in the RAF under an assumed name but was detected and discharged after four months. He then enlisted in the Tank Corps and transferred into the RAF in 1926 and was posted to India until 1928. He left the RAF in March 1935 and hoped to continue writing at his home in Dorset, a career cut short by his fatal motorbike accident.
1982
On 19th May 1982, the SAS suffered 18 casualties when a Sea King helicopter crashed while cross-decking troops from HMS Hermes to HMS Intrepid. 22 men were killed in all and 9 survived. Three Irishmen were killed one NI, one Donegal, one Tipperary.
Died
1915
15058 Pte John Abraham, 1st Bn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Died in Gallipoli. From Cashel.
1916
22977 Pte Patrick Barnett, 8th Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Killed in action Western Front. From Clashmore, Co. Waterford.
1918
M/372831 Pte John O'Grady, RASC, died at Home and is buried in Inisloughnaght Church of Ireland Churchyard, Marlfield, Co. Tipperary. He was the husband of Margaret Sweeney, 74 Garrymore, Clonmel. A native of Cloyne, Co. Cork.Last edited by Groundhog; 20 May 2004, 11:26.sigpic
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May 20th
1836
The Irish Constabulary was formed. It later became the Royal Irish Constabulary.
1941
Germany invaded Crete.
Died
1915
4224 Pte John Whelan 1st, Royal Irish Reg. Died of wounds on the Western Front. From Waterford.
1917
205530 Sapper James Delaney, Royal Engineers. From Waterford. Died on the Western Front.
1941
Sailor Joseph Tierney, Merchant Navy. He was the son of Thomas and Margaret Tierney, Dublin. He died ,age 23, aboard the SS Harpargus.sigpic
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May 21st
1840
New Zealand became a British colony.
1940
The Germans surrounded the British Army at Dunkirk. Meanwhile British tank forces attacked General Erwin Rommel’s 7th Panzer Division at Arras, slowing down any potential attack on the beleaguered BEF. The night before the attack the British infantry sheltered in the old First World War trenches near Vimy Ridge.
1945
Heinrich Himmler, was captured by the British Army.
1981
In the Maze prison Raymond McCreesh (IRA) and Patsy O’Hara (INLA) died on Hunger Strike. Kevin Lynch started a hunger strike.
1982
British troops landed on the Falkland Islands.
1991
Topical one this. Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi (46) was assassinated by a female Tamil suicide bomber at a campaign rally near Madras. Tamil leader Velupillai Prabhakaran ordered the assassination. Gandhi and 16 others were killed when the bomb, hidden in a bunch of flowers exploded.
Died
1915
G/3719 Pte Cornelius Murphy Royal West Surrey Regt
1917
22144 Pte Patrick Fitzgerald 1st Bn Devonshire Regt. Died of wounds on the Western Front. From Waterford.
6482 Pte Robert Flannery, 2nd Dragoon Guards. Died in Scotland.
1940
5577 Lt Col Denis Craven-Pearson, The Buffs (East Kent Regt) was KIA in Belgium. He was from Clogheen, Co. Tipperary.
5885328 Pte William Francis Maher, son of Mr & Mrs William Maher, Cashel, Co. Tipperary. He was killed in action in France with 2nd Bn Northamptonshire Regt and is buried in Maroeuil Communal Cemetery. His brother Patrick also died in the war. William’s date of death is estimated.
1989
837612 Sgt Charlie Forrester. Died in Lebanon while serving with 65th Irishbatt, UNIFIL. Natural Causes.sigpic
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May 22nd
1455
The Battle of St. Albans, initiated the 30-year long War of the Roses. The army of the Duke of won as King Henry VI was taken prisoner and the Duke of Somerset killed.
1805
Michael Doheny was born near Fethard, Co. Tipperary. He was one of the leaders of the 1848 rebellion and had to escape to France afterwards. A barrister by profession, he practised law in New York, where he formed the Fenians (Irish Republican Brotherhood) in 1858. He died on April 1st 1863.
1946
George Best is 58 today. Happy birthday George.
1981
In the Maze prison Kieran Doherty started a hunger strike.
1998
We voted on a referendum on the Good Friday Agreement. The GFA got 71% support in Northern Ireland and 94% of us in the Republic of Ireland were fooled into believing the GFA was the way to peace and stability. If we only knew then what we know now.
Died
1917
5416 Pte Edmond Drudy from Cashel, Co. Tipperary. Died in Cork and is buried in the military cemetery there. He was the son of John and Mary Drudy and he died aged 41. He was a member of 3rd Bn Connaught Rangers.
76903 Gunner Patrick Hartley from Waterford Died of wounds in Salonika serving with the Royal Horse Artillery.Last edited by Groundhog; 21 May 2004, 23:49.sigpic
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May 23rd
1701
Captain Kidd was hanged for piracy in London.
1706
The Battle of Ramillies was fought in the War of the Spanish Succession. The British and their allies defeated the French. 17000 men died.
1858
Lt Harry Lyster of the 72nd Bengal Native Infantry, won a Victoria Cross with a solo charge into a rebel square, routing the enemy.
1934
Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed by Texas Rangers in Louisiana. Ms Parker and Mr Barrow were shot almost 50 times and died at the scene, ending a four year crime spree which included 13 murders and numerous bank robberies.
2000
Israel completed it’s withdrawal from Lebanon after a 22 year occupation of part of the country.
Died
1915
8930 Pte Francis Gorbey Royal Irish Reg., 1st Batt. Villerstown, Co. Waterford.
1921
Comdt Con Gleeson, IRA. Killed at Upperchurch, Co. Tipperary.
1941
Lt Cdr Hugh Tristram De La Poer Beresford, Royal Navy. Was killed on HMS Kelly and is buried in Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt. He was the son of Henry de la Poer Beresford, 6th Marquis of Waterford, Newtown Anner, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
1943
1486216 Aircraftman James Joseph Morrissey, husband of Josephine M. Morrissey, Tramore, Co. Waterford. He died in England while serving in the RAF and is buried in Bournemouth North Cemetery.
1968
Michael Murphy, a native of Cork was killed in Vietnam. He was an Alaskan State Trooper and was acting as an advisor to the South Vietnamese Police.sigpic
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