February 21

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Identity cards, introduced at a wartime security measure, were abolished in Britain

Eric Liddell, Chariots of Fire, died

Peadar O'Donnell, revolutionary and writer, is born in Co. Donegal

Intercity railway between Glasgow and Edinburgh opened by Queen Victoria

Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, Viceroy and Governor-General of India, born

Richard Trevithick Cornish inventor and engineer demonstrated the first steam driven, died.

Edward Despard, Irish republican, executed for attempted overthrow of British Crown

Edward Denny, MP for Tralee, Ireland, commits suicide

François Thurot lands French forces at Carrickfergus in Belfast Lough

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