Ireland

countries: Ireland

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Birth in Kinvara, Co. Galway of Francis Arthur Fahy who wrote the song, Galway Bay

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The Great North of Scotland Railway opened, running from Aberdeen to Huntly.

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David Dunbar Buick was born at, 26 Green Street, Arbroath. He emigrated to the USA with his parents at the age of two. Although he founded the Buick Manufacturing Company which later became General Motors, it was William C. Durant who grew the company.

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Charles Davis Lucas from Drumagole, Co Armagh, age 20 and a mate in the Royal Navy, hurls a Russian shell (its fuse still burning) from the deck of his ship during the Crimean War. For this action, he will become the first recipient of the Victoria Cross

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Harry Furniss, caricaturist, is born in Wexford

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The Catholic University of Ireland is opened with J. H. Newman as its first rector

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Birth of Fanny Parnell, Land League agitator and sister of Charles Stewart Parnell

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William Smith O'Brien, leader of the 1848 rebellion, is pardoned

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Patrick Geddes - Scottish Botanist born.

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