october 14th

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History

The, 50 pence decimal coin was first issued, replacing the ten shilling note.

October 14, 1969

History

German submarine sank HMS Royal Oak in Scapa Flow, Orkney, with the loss of, 810 lives.

October 14, 1939

History

Strikes, marches and protests are held in Belfast against low unemployment payments, temporarily uniting Catholic and Protestant unemployed

October 14, 1932

History

Tipperary IRA man, Sean Treacy, is killed in a gun battle in Talbot Street, Dublin

October 14, 1920

History

Eamon de Valera, nationalist campaigner, Fianna Fáil leader, Taoiseach and president of Ireland, is born in Brooklyn, NY of a Spanish father and an Irish mother

October 14, 1882

History

Eyemouth Fishing Disaster, nearly, 20 boats and, 129 men (1 in, 3 of the towns male population) lost their lives in a storm.

October 14, 1881

History

Nationalist and Gaelic League activist, Mary Ellen Spring-Rice is born

October 14, 1880

History

First issue of The Nation published

October 14, 1842

History

Birth of author and patriot, Thomas Osborne Davis in Mallow, Co. Cork

October 14, 1814

History

Wolfe Tone visits Belfast for the first time

October 14, 1791

History

First steamboat tested on Dalswinton Loch by Patrick Miller and William Symington.

October 14, 1788

History

Edmond Sexton Pery is unanimously re-elected as Speaker of the Irish parliament

October 14, 1783

History

George Townshend, 4th Viscount Townshend, becomes Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

October 14, 1767

History

Birth of United Irish leader, Lord Edward Fitzgerald at Carton House in Co. Kildare

October 14, 1763

History

Irish Brigade of France fights in the battle of Friedlingen

October 14, 1702

History

The Earl of Tyrone dies, and spirit apparently appears promptly to Lady Nicola Hamilton making a number of predictions that turn out to be correct; one of them was that she would die on her 47th birthday

October 14, 1693

History

After taking Cork on 28 September, Marlbourough takes Kinsale for the Williamites, who now control Munster

October 14, 1690

History

Birth at St James Palace, London of King James VII, second son of King Charles I and brother of King Charles II.

October 14, 1633

History

Victory of Robert the Bruce of Scotland in Yorkshire.

October 14, 1322

History

Edward Bruce, brother of Robert the Bruce, killed in a battle near Dundalk, Ireland.

October 14, 1318

History

Second marriage of King Alexander III (to Yolanda de Dreux).

October 14, 1285