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Aircraft carrier HMS Dasher blew up and sank off the island of Arran, loss of 350 crew

Mary MacSwiney, Maire Nic Shuibhne, Irish patriot, is born

James MacNeill, Governor-General of the Irish Free State, is born in Glenarm, Co. Antrim

John Ballance, Prime Minister of New Zealand, born in Glenavy, Co. Antrim

First publication of The Vicar Of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith

The first number of Faulkners Dublin Journal is published

Kilkenny surrenders to Cromwell

Charles 1 becomes king of England, Scotland and Ireland