Ireland

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David Wylie Bleakley, writer and Northern Ireland Labour Party politician, born

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First moving image on a television screen when John Logie Baird transmitted the image of a, 15-year-old office boy in his London workshop.

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Charles Haughey, Fianna Fáil leader and Taoiseach, is born in Castlebar, Co. Mayo

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Paddy Devlin, socialist politician, is born in Belfast

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Death of Matt Talbot. With the help of a priest friend, Matt overcomes chronic alcoholism and models his life on that of the monks, who lived in Ireland in the 6th and 7th centuries. It is a tough programme of prayer, fasting and almsgiving. He gives away

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Con Houlihan, journalist, is born in Castleisland, Co. Kerry

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Máire de Paor (née McDermott) archaeologist and arts activist, is born in Buncrana, Co. Donegal

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Raymond Crotty, radical economist, is born in Co. Kilkenny

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