Ireland

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William Smith, founder of the Boys Brigade, born.

ireland

Birth of Sir Horace Plunkett, agricultural reformer and politician

ireland

Oscar Wilde, playwright, novelist and essayist is born in Dublin

ireland

A statutory provision is made for the establishment of a national gallery of paintings, sculpture and fine arts in Ireland

ireland

Birth in Kinvara, Co. Galway of Francis Arthur Fahy who wrote the song, Galway Bay

ireland

The Great North of Scotland Railway opened, running from Aberdeen to Huntly.

ireland

David Dunbar Buick was born at, 26 Green Street, Arbroath. He emigrated to the USA with his parents at the age of two. Although he founded the Buick Manufacturing Company which later became General Motors, it was William C. Durant who grew the company.

ireland

Charles Davis Lucas from Drumagole, Co Armagh, age 20 and a mate in the Royal Navy, hurls a Russian shell (its fuse still burning) from the deck of his ship during the Crimean War. For this action, he will become the first recipient of the Victoria Cross

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