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Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeats the English forces of his brother-in-law, Sir Henry Bagenal, at the Battle of Clontibret, Co. Monaghan

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Humphrey Davy, Cornish pioneer chemist, died.

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Icelandic gunboats fired live rounds at British fishing trawlers, many of them from Scottish ports, during the Cod War over fishing rights

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In a radio broadcast, Churchill accuses de Valeras government of frolicking with the Germans and Japanese