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Rt. Hon. John Smith, leader of the Labour Party died.

Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth took place at Westminster Abbey.

Irish Patriots, Seán MacDiarmada and James Connolly are executed at Kilmainham Gaol

Mary Browne from Roscommon becomes the first Ban Garda, a woman police officer.

Daniel O'Connell founds the Catholic Association, an organization dedicated to obtaining the franchise for Catholics

James Shields, US army general, the only person to be elected a senator by 3 states, is born in Altmore, Co. Tyrone

J.S. Knowles, dramatist and Baptist preacher, is born in Cork

Archibald Hamilton Rowan, nationalist and United Irishman, is born in London