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RTÉ Journalist Kevin O'Kelly is imprisoned for contempt of court

Saor Uladh (Free Ulster) a splinter group of the IRA, attacks the police barracks in Rosslea, Co. Fermanagh

Rugby player Karl Mullen is born in Courtown Harbour, Co. Wexford

Thomas Andrews, chemist and physicist, born in Belfast

Osborn Joseph Bergin, Celtic Scholar, born in Cork

Aeneas Coffey, inventor of the Coffey Still, dies

John Loudon McAdam Scottish engineer who developed the macadam road died

John Stearne, founder and first president of the College of Physicians, born