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September 20th

Wed 20 Sep 1972

Paul McCartney, one of the Beatles, was arrested for possession of marijuana at his farm in the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland.

Wed 20 Sep 1967

Liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at John Browns shipyard at Clydebank.

Sat 20 Sep 1958

Construction began on the Forth Road Bridge

Mon 20 Sep 1920

Black and Tans raid Balbriggan, Co. Dublin

Mon 20 Sep 1920

Kevin Barry is captured

Fri 20 Sep 1918

Republican newspapers are banned by English

Wed 20 Sep 1911

Anna Catherine Parnell, Irish patriot, dies

Mon 20 Sep 1847

Birth in Carron, Co. Clare of Michael Cusack, GAA founder

Tue 20 Sep 1842

Sir James Dewar, inventor of the vacuum flask, born in Kincardine-on-Forth.

Tue 20 Sep 1803

Robert Emmet, Irish patriot executed by England.

Tue 20 Sep 1803

Robert Emmet, Irish patriot, is executed in Dublin. Emmet becomes a hero of Irish nationalists, largely on the basis of his stirring speech from the dock - Let no man write my epitaph ...When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then,

Mon 20 Sep 1784

Sir Richard Griffith, geologist and civil engineer, is born in Dublin

Tue 20 Sep 1746

Prince Charles Edward Stuart escaped capture by sailing to France aborad the French ship LHeureux.

Tue 20 Sep 1689

The Enniskillen Protestants defeat Jacobite forces at Boyle, Co. Roscommon