Today on Celtic History on

October 28th

Wed 28 Oct 1970

David Jones Welsh poet and artist died.

Thu 28 Oct 1965

House of Commons passed the Bill abolishing the death penalty for murder.

Sat 28 Oct 1922

Journalist and novelist Cliff Hanley (Dancing in the Streets etc) born in Glasgow.

Thu 28 Oct 1909

Birth in Dublin of Sir Francis Bacon, painter

Mon 28 Oct 1907

John Harold Hewitt, poet who wrote the Glens of Antrim, is born

Thu 28 Oct 1880

Dr Henry Faulds, a Scots medical missionary working in Japan, published a letter in Nature which gave the first evidence that fingerprints could be used as proof of guilt or innocence in legal cases.

Thu 28 Oct 1875

Death of William Howard Glover, composer and music critic

Tue 28 Oct 1794

Birth of Robert Liston in Linlithgow who was to carry out the first operation in Britain with the aid of an anesthetic.

Sat 28 Oct 1758

Edward Moore, 5th Earl of Drogheda and former MP for Dunleer, drowns with his son Edward, chaplain to the House of Commons, en route from England to Dublin

Tue 28 Oct 1659

Birth of Nicholas Brad, Anglican clergyman and poet, in Bandon, Co. Cork

Sun 28 Oct 1562

Battle of Corrichie, Earl of Moray defeated Catholic Gordons of Huntly who were attacking Aberdeen.