Today on Celtic History on

June 14th

Tue 14 Jun 1966

Walter McGowan wins World Fly-Weight Championship

Fri 14 Jun 1946

John Logie Baird, Scottish Inventor of television, died.

Fri 14 Jun 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

Sat 14 Jun 1919

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

Sat 14 Jun 1884

Birth in Athlone of John McCormack, tenor and papal count

Thu 14 Jun 1883

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

Thu 14 Jun 1866

Charles Wood, composer, is born in Armagh

Thu 14 Jun 1798

Government reinforcements begin to march from Cork and the midlands

Sun 14 Jun 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.

Sun 14 Jun 1699

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

Wed 14 Jun 1690

William of Orange lands at Carrickfergus

Wed 14 Jun 1645

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