Irish brigade of france fights in the battle of friedlingen

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calendar 1969

The, 50 pence decimal coin was first issued, replacing the ten shilling note.

October 14, 1969

calendar 1939

German submarine sank HMS Royal Oak in Scapa Flow, Orkney, with the loss of, 810 lives.

October 14, 1939

calendar 1932

Strikes, marches and protests are held in Belfast against low unemployment payments, temporarily uniting Catholic and Protestant unemployed

October 14, 1932

calendar 1920

Tipperary IRA man, Sean Treacy, is killed in a gun battle in Talbot Street, Dublin

October 14, 1920

calendar 1882

Eamon de Valera, nationalist campaigner, Fianna Fáil leader, Taoiseach and president of Ireland, is born in Brooklyn, NY of a Spanish father and an Irish mother

October 14, 1882

calendar 1881

Eyemouth Fishing Disaster, nearly, 20 boats and, 129 men (1 in, 3 of the towns male population) lost their lives in a storm.

October 14, 1881

calendar 1880

Nationalist and Gaelic League activist, Mary Ellen Spring-Rice is born

October 14, 1880

calendar 1842

First issue of The Nation published

October 14, 1842

calendar 1814

Birth of author and patriot, Thomas Osborne Davis in Mallow, Co. Cork

October 14, 1814

calendar 1791

Wolfe Tone visits Belfast for the first time

October 14, 1791

calendar 1788

First steamboat tested on Dalswinton Loch by Patrick Miller and William Symington.

October 14, 1788

calendar 1783

Edmond Sexton Pery is unanimously re-elected as Speaker of the Irish parliament

October 14, 1783

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