Robert emmet, irish patriot, is executed in dublin. emmet becomes a hero of irish nationalists, largely on the basis of his stirring speech from the dock let no man write my epitaph ... when my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then,
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1972
Paul McCartney, one of the Beatles, was arrested for possession of marijuana at his farm in the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland.
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1967
Liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at John Browns shipyard at Clydebank.
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1842
Sir James Dewar, inventor of the vacuum flask, born in Kincardine-on-Forth.
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1784
Sir Richard Griffith, geologist and civil engineer, is born in Dublin
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1746
Prince Charles Edward Stuart escaped capture by sailing to France aborad the French ship LHeureux.
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