← Disaster at English-Scottish football match at Ibrox Stadium when part of the flooring collapsed, killing 20, and injuring 200.
St. Patrick's Day, becomes a bank day →- March 8, 1903
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, KCMG, PC (12 April 1816 – 9 February 1903), was an Irish poet and journalist (editor of The Nation), Young Irelander and tenant-rights activist. After emigrating to Australia in 1856 he entered the politics of Victoria on a platform of land reform, and in 1871–1872 served as the colony’s 8th Premier.
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy died in Nice, France in 1903, aged 86.
He is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.