Robert Emmet, Irish Patriot, Is Executed in Dublin. Emmet Becomes a Hero of Irish Nationalists, Largely on the Basis of His Stirring Speech From the Dock - Let No Man Write My Epitaph ...When My Country Takes Her Place Among the Nations of the Earth, Then,
← Sir James Dewar, inventor of the vacuum flask, born in Kincardine-on-Forth.- January 1, 1