William of orange lands at carrickfergus

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calendar 1966

Walter McGowan wins World Fly-Weight Championship

June 14, 1966

calendar 1946

John Logie Baird, Scottish Inventor of television, died.

June 14, 1946

calendar 1940

Queen Mary, Aquitania, Empress of Canada, and Empress of Britain arrive in the River Clyde with the first contingent of Australian and New Zealand troops

June 14, 1940

calendar 1919

Capt John Alcock and Lt Arthur Whitten-Brown take off from Newfoundland on the first non-stop transatlantic flight to Galway

June 14, 1919

calendar 1884

Birth in Athlone of John McCormack, tenor and papal count

June 14, 1884

calendar 1883

Death of Edward FitzGerald, poet and translator of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

June 14, 1883

calendar 1866

Charles Wood, composer, is born in Armagh

June 14, 1866

calendar 1798

Government reinforcements begin to march from Cork and the midlands

June 14, 1798

calendar 1789

Whisky distilled from maize was first produced, by a clergyman, the Rev Elijah Craig. He called the new liquor bourbon because he lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.

June 14, 1789

calendar 1699

The second session of the second Irish parliament of William III is dissolved on this date

June 14, 1699

calendar 1645

The royalists, loyal to Charles I, suffer a key defeat by the English Parliamentarians at Naseby

June 14, 1645

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