may 6th

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History

Election for the new Scottish Parliament

May 06, 1999

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Icelandic gunboats fired live rounds at British fishing trawlers, many of them from Scottish ports, during the Cod War over fishing rights

May 06, 1959

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Last major bombing attack on the Clyde area by the Luftwaffe

May 06, 1941

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Máire de Paor (née McDermott) archaeologist and arts activist, is born in Buncrana, Co. Donegal

May 06, 1925

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The U-20, a German U-boat commanded by Captain Schweiger, sinks the Centurion off the south-east Irish coast

May 06, 1916

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William Conor, painter, born in Belfast

May 06, 1884

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Phoenix Park murders, The assassination Lord Frederick Cavendish, and T.H. Burke

May 06, 1882

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Sir James Young Simpson advocate of chloroform, died.

May 06, 1870

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William Archer, Irish naturalist and librarian, born in Magherahamlet, Co. Down. Archer

May 06, 1830

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Robert O’Hara Burke, explorer, born in St. Cleran’s, Co. Galway

May 06, 1820

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Mary Molesworth, and her daughters Melosina and Mary die in a fire at their London house

May 06, 1763

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Act of Parliament removes the right to vote from Catholics

May 06, 1728

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Philip de Courtenay lands at Dalkey and campaigns in the midlands and the Leinster mountains

May 06, 1384

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Reginald II assumes Manx throne.

May 06, 1249

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Donatus (or Dunan), the first Bishop of Dublin, dies

May 06, 1074