Today in History
Battle Independence Publication Treaty Assassination Discovery
Eanáir/ January/ janvier
2nd – Irish becomes 23rd official language of European Union (2007)
21st – Irish (Dáil) Declaration of Independence (1919)
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Feabhra/ February/ fevrier
6th – SS California sunk off Irish coast by German submarine (1917)
Munich Air Crash (Man.Utd.) (1958)
7th – Maastricht Treaty signed (1992) /
End of Communist Party (USSR) domination of Politburo (1990)
21st – Communist Manifesto published (1848)
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Márta/ March/ mars
Willem Janszoon first sights & lands on the continent of Australia (1606)
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Aibreán/ April/ avril
14th – Assassination of President of USA, Abraham Lincoln (1848)
24th – Proclamation of Irish Republic (1916)
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Bealtaine/ May/ mai
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Meitheamh/ June/ juin
7th – Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) divided the newly-discovered lands territories between Spain (to the west) & Portugal (to the east) of the Tordesillas Meridian
15th – Magna Carta published in England. (1215) Became law (1225)
28th – Treaty of Versailles signed between Germany & Western Allies (1919)
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Iúil/ July/ juillet
1st – Battle of the Somme begins (1916) / Battle of El Alamein begins (1942)
2nd –
4th – US Declaration of Independence adopted by US Continental Congress (1776)
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Lúnasa/ August/ aout
6th – US drop ‘Little Boy’ atomic bomb on Hiroshima (1945)
9th – US drop ‘Fat Man’ atomic bomb on Nagasaki (1945)
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Meán Fómhair/ September/ septembre
28th – Ulster Solemn League & Covenant signed by over 200,000 male Unionists in northern counties of Ireland (1912)
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Deireadh Fómhair/ October/ octobre
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Samhain/ November/ novembre
22nd – Assassination of US President John F. Kennedy (1963)
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Nollaig/ December/ décembre
29th – Grigory Rasputin murdered (1916)
31st – Marshall Plan (European Recovery Act) formally ends after spending $13.3 billion in reconstructing Europe
