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

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    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

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

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

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    First issue of The Nation published

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

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    Wolfe Tone visits Belfast for the first time

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

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

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