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Start of firemens strike which lasted for two months; cover was provided by the army with their out of date green goddess fire engines.

Joe Corrie, author died in Edinburgh

The first bombs in WW2 dropped on British soil was in the Shetland Islands

Leonard Boyle, priest and palaeographer, is born in Ballintra, County Donegal

Novelist and poet Robert Louis Stevenson born Edinburgh

Battle of Sheriffmuir

Battle of Cnoc na nOs Alasdair MacColla Scottish military leaderdies fighting on Irish side against Cromwells Troops

Charles I appoints James Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormond as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland