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A Companion Calendar to Finnegans Wake (a continuing project) |
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1681 |
Execution of Archbishop Oliver Plunkett in London. | |
1690 |
William III defeats james I at River Boyne. | ||
1916 |
First day of the Battle of the Somme, in which the 36th Ulster Division reached the German second line. | ||
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1921 |
War between US and Germany declared at an end. | |
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1863 |
Union victories at Vicksburg and Gettysburg. | |
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First all-talking moving picture at Strand Theater, NYC. | |
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1839 |
John D. Rockefeller Sr. is born. |
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1887 |
Passage of Irish Crime Bill abolishing trial by jury in Ireland. | ||
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1691 |
Battle of Aughrim. | |
1856 |
The Crimea wholly evacuated by the Allies. | ||
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1808 |
Commander MacMahon, descendent of an Irish Jacobite family, born at Sally. In the Crimean War he turned his fire on Russians. Died October 17, 1893. | |
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1920 |
World's first commercial radio telephone service opened between Los Angeles and Santa Catalina Island, California, USA. | |
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1803 |
Insurrection by Robert Emmet in Dublin, last flare-up of United Irishmen. | |
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1663 |
English act restricts Irish trade with colonies. | |
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1926 |
Flivver monoplane exhibited by Henry Ford. | |
1928 |
First color motion pictures in US exhibited by George Eastman. | ||
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1556 |
Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, dies. | |
1893 |
Founding of Gaelic League. | ||
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