Labour won the General Election with an overall majority of three seats and Harold Wilson became Prime Minister.
October 10, 1974
Eoin O Grownley, Irish language scholar, dies
October 10, 1899
Magee College is opened as a combined arts and Presbyterian theological college in Derry-Londonderry
October 10, 1865
Birth in Templemore, Co. Tipperary of Charles Stanley Monck, the first Governor General of Canada
October 10, 1819
The Edinburgh Review first published.
October 10, 1802
Birth in Co. Tipperary of Fr. Theobald Matthew, “The Apostle of Temperance” and campaigner against alcohol
October 10, 1790
During his visit to Ireland, Benjamin Franklin attends a meeting of the House of Commons on this date
October 10, 1771
The Linen Board meets for the first time
October 10, 1711
Patrick, Bishop of Dublin, dies in a shipwreck
October 10, 1084