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Jack McConnell elected First Minister of Scotland, succeeding Henry McLeish who had resigned

Actor Tom Conti born

Birth of Máire Drumm, Irish Republican, in Newry, Co. Armagh

Donagh MacDonagh, son of Thomas MacDonagh, born in Dublin

Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Fenian, contests and wins a Tipperary by-election in abstentia, but is declared ineligible as a convicted felon

Clipper ship Cutty Sark was launched

Justin McCarthy, politician, novelist and historian, is born in Cork

Lord John Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, is born in Dublin