Ireland

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Éamon de Valera is elected Taoiseach

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Birth of Christy Brown, paraplegic painter and writer. His book “Down All the Days” and the film “My Left Foot” are based on his life

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Birth of Richard Burke, Fine Gael politician and EC Commissioner

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Birth in Rooskey, Co. Roscommon of Albert Reynolds, politician and businessman, Fianna Fáil leader and Taoiseach from 1992-1994

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Peter O'Toole, born

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The IRA and other organizations are declared illegal in the Free State and the Catholic Church

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Birth of politician, Secretary of State for Scotland, Minister for Defence, Viscount Younger of Leckie (George Younger). Later became Chairman of The Royal Bank of Scotland plc.

ireland

12,000 Royal Navy sailors on, 15 ships went on strike at Invergordon over cuts in their pay.

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