September 04

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Forth Road Bridge opened by the Queen. At, 6,156 feet long and a centre span of, 3300 feet, it was the longest in Europe at that time.

Last tramcar run in Glasgow (to Auchenshuggle).

Dónal Foley, journalist, humorist and author of Man Bites Dog column in the Irish Times, is born in Ring, Co. Waterford

John Dillon, Nationalist politician, is born in Blackrock, Co. Dublin

Conspiracy judgment against Daniel OConnell is reversed by House of Lords

Cornwallis moves forward from Tuam to attack Castlebar

Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand, Breton linguist, born

Hugh ONeill, Ruari ODonnell and other chiefs of their families depart Lough Swilly for the continent in what has become known as the Flight of the Earls

King Alexander III born at Roxburgh.

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