Ireland

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Erskine Childers, novelist, member of the Royal Navy, and later an Irish nationalist, is born in London. He is famous for the classic spy yarn The Riddle Of The Sands. For more on his life, please click The Wild Geese

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Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Québec

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Birth of Eva Gore-Booth, poet, trade unionist and feminist, on the Lissadell Estate in Co. Sligo

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Jack White, journalist and author, is born in Cork

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Sir Isaac Butt invents the term Home Rule

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David Octavius Hill, painter and pioneer photographer, died.

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Jem Mace defends his heavyweight crown against Irish champ Joe Coburn

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Sir James Young Simpson advocate of chloroform, died.

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