13th

Total results: 11

Donald Dewar elected as First Minister of the new Scottish Parliament.

Alison Hargreave, a, 33-year-old mother of two from Spean Bridge became the first woman to climb Mount Everest solo and without oxygen

In a radio broadcast, Churchill accuses de Valeras government of frolicking with the Germans and Japanese

Dan Breen and Seán Treacy rescue their comrade Seán Hogan from a Dublin, Cork train at Knocklong, Co. Limerick

Samuel Beckett, is born in Foxrock, Co. Dublin

Birth of Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquis Londonderry and unionist politician

Anna Catherine Parnell, sister of Charles and Fanny, and co-founder of the Irish Ladies Land League, is born in Avondale, Co. Wicklow

The Irish Confederation splits; John Mitchel starts the militant United Irishman; he is arrested on this date and is sentenced to 14 years transportation under the new Treason Felony Act