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Walter McGowan wins World Fly-Weight Championship
Walter McGowan wins World Fly-Weight Championship …

John Logie Baird, Scottish Inventor of television, died.
John Logie Baird, Scottish Inventor of television, died. John Logie Baird (August 13, 1888 ? June 14, 1946) was a Scottish engineer, who is best known as the inventor of the first working electromechanical television system. …

Queen Mary, Aquitania, Empress of Canada, and Empress of Britain arrive in the River Clyde with the first contingent of Australian and New Zealand troops
Queen Mary, Aquitania, Empress of Canada, and Empress of Britain arrive in the River Clyde with the first contingent of Australian and New Zealand troops …

Capt John Alcock and Lt Arthur Whitten-Brown take off from Newfoundland on the first non-stop transatlantic flight to Galway
Capt John Alcock and Lt Arthur Whitten-Brown take off from Newfoundland on the first non-stop transatlantic flight to Galway …

Birth in Athlone of John McCormack, tenor and papal count
Birth in Athlone of John McCormack, tenor and papal count …

Death of Edward FitzGerald, poet and translator of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Death of Edward FitzGerald, poet and translator of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam …

Charles Wood, composer, is born in Armagh
Charles Wood, composer, is born in Armagh …

Government reinforcements begin to march from Cork and the midlands
Government reinforcements begin to march from Cork and the midlands …

Whisky distilled from maize was first produced, by a clergyman, the Rev Elijah Craig. He called the new liquor bourbon because he lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
Whisky distilled from maize was first produced, by a clergyman, the Rev Elijah Craig. He called the new liquor bourbon because he lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky. …

The second session of the second Irish parliament of William III is dissolved on this date
The second session of the second Irish parliament of William III is dissolved on this date …