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Raymond Chandler, born
Raymond Chandler, born Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, “Blackmailers Don’t Shoot”, was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. …

Arthur Whitten Brown, born
Arthur Whitten Brown, born Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, KBE (23 July 1886 – 4 October 1948) was the navigator of the first successful non-stop transatlantic flight. …

Alan Francis Brooke, born
Alan Francis Brooke, born Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, KG, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO & Bar (23 July 1883 – 17 June 1963), was a senior officer of the British Army. …

St. Vincent’s Hospital opens in Dublin
St. Vincent’s Hospital opens in Dublin The hospital was established by Mother Mary Aikenhead, founder of the Catholic order Religious Sisters of Charity, at the Earl of Meath’s former home at 56 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin, in 1834. …

Robert Emmet leads an armed outbreak
Robert Emmet leads an armed outbreak Robert Emmet (4 March 1778 – 20 September 1803) was an Irish Republican, orator and rebel leader. …

Bonnie Prince Charlie lands in Eriskay
Bonnie Prince Charlie lands in Eriskay Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Silvester Severino Maria Stuart (December 31, 1720 - January 31, 1788), was the exiled claimant to the thrones of Great Britain and Ireland, commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie. …

Presbyterian riot in St Giles
Presbyterian riot in St Giles Janet “Jenny” Geddes (c. 1600 – c. 1660) was a Scottish market-trader in Edinburgh who is alleged to have thrown a stool at the head of the minister in St Giles’ Cathedral in objection to the first public use of the Church of Scotland’s 1637 edition of the Book of Common Prayer in Scotland. …