July 09

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Glasgow Zoological Society Opened

Glasgow Zoological Society Opened

Glasgow Zoo, or Calderpark Zoo, was a 99-acre (40 ha) zoological park in Baillieston, Glasgow, Scotland.

July 9, 1947
Gas masks issued to Civilians Prior to WW2

Gas masks issued to Civilians Prior to WW2

Gas had been used a great deal in the First World War and many soldiers had died or been injured in gas attacks. Mustard gas was the most deadly of all the poisonous chemicals used during World War I. It was almost odourless (could not be smelt easily) and took 12 hours to take effect. It was so powerful that only small amounts needed to be added to weapons like high explosive shells to have devastating effects.

July 9, 1938
Queens Park Football Club Formed

Queens Park Football Club Formed

Queen’s Park is the oldest association football club in Scotland, having been founded in 1867, and is the oldest in the world outside England and Wales. The club was fully amateur for the first 152 years and has played in white and black hoops as shirt colours for the vast majority of its existence.

July 9, 1867
Madeleine Smith acquitted of murder

Madeleine Smith acquitted of murder

Madeleine Hamilton Smith (29 March 1835 – 12 April 1928) was a 19th-century Glasgow socialite who was the accused in a sensational murder trial in Scotland in 1857.

July 9, 1857
John O'Donovan, born

John O'Donovan, born

Dr. John O’Donovan born 1809 at Atateemore north of Slieverue he got his early education in Waterford City. O’Donovan edited the Annals of the Four Masters and heavily involved with the Ordnance Survey in 1840.

July 9, 1809
Edmund Burke, died

Edmund Burke, died

Edmund Burke ( 12 January 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, economist, and philosopher. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of Parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party.

July 9, 1797
MP for Cork, James Bernard, died

MP for Cork, James Bernard, died

James Bernard (8 December 1729 – 7 July 1790) was an Irish politician and ancestor of the Earls of Bandon.

July 9, 1790
Taliesin Williams, born

Taliesin Williams, born

Taliesin Williams was a key figure in his own right in the Welsh linguistic and cultural revival of the late 1700s and early 1800s. He undertook his fathers trade, His father was Edward Williams, as a writer.

July 9, 1787
Rotunda Hospital, in Dublin, foundation stone is laid

Rotunda Hospital, in Dublin, foundation stone is laid

In 1745 Bartholomew Mosse, surgeon and man-midwife, founded the original Dublin Lying-In Hospital as a maternity training hospital, the first of its kind.

July 9, 1751