20th

Total results: 8

Explosion at Clarkston Toll shopping centre, killing, 12.

Birth near Castleblaney, Co. Monaghan of General Eoin O’Duffy, first commissioner of the Garda Síochána (Blue Shirts)

The Land League is outlawed

Daniel Owen considered the greatest Welsh language novelist, born

Michael William Balfe, composer, dies in Dublin

Duel between John Gustavus Crosbie and Sir Barry Denny, the sitting MP, the first fire Denny is shot fatally

Two hundred passengers are lost in the shipwrecks of the brigs Trevor Totty and Nonpareil

Birth of James Logan, Colonial statesman and scholar in Lurgan, Co. Armagh