August 06

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Former World flyweight boxing champion Benny Lynch died.

Poet Richard Murphy is born

The Dáil orders the boycotting of Belfast unionist firms

Birth of Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin.

Sir William Ridgeway, classical scholar, is born in Ballydermot, Co. Offaly

Donald Alexander Smithlater Lord Strathcona born in Forres.

Daniel O'Connell, Irish patriot, is born in Cahirciveen, County Kerry

Richard Nugent, Lord Delvin, MP for Fore, dies of wounds he received after fighting a duel with a Mr Reilly

First Glasgow-Edinburgh coach service began from White Horse Inn, Edinburgh.

John de Wogan ceases to be justiciar; Edmund le Botiller will act as justiciar for the present

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