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June 14

June 14

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Walter McGowan wins World Fly-Weight Championship

John Logie Baird, Scottish Inventor of television, died.

RMS Queen Mary, Aquitania, Empress of Canada, and Empress of Britain arrive in the River Clyde with troops

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

Birth in Athlone of John McCormack, tenor and papal count

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

Charles Wood, composer, is born in Armagh

Government reinforcements begin to march from Cork and the midlands

Whisky distilled from maize was first produced, by a clergyman, the Rev Elijah Craig.

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

William of Orange lands at Carrickfergus

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

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