This day in history

[Richard Frost]

19 September 1893

New Zealand becomes the first country to grant all women the right to vote

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20 September 2019

Students from 185 countries stage the world's largest-ever protest on climate change culminating in a New York rally led by Greta Thunberg

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22nd September 1991

Huntington Library makes the Dead Sea Scrolls available to the public for the first time.

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22nd September 1913

12,000 Ulster Volunteers parade in Belfast threatening armed resistance to the Home Rule Bill passed by the UK Parliament.

The food ship "The Hare" arrives at Dublin port, bringing forty tons of food raised by British trade unionists to feed those affected by the Dublin Lockout.

[Richard Frost]

23 September

1122 The Concordat of Worms is agreed between Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V. The treaty settled a dispute between church and state about the power to appoint bishops.

1983 Gulf Air Flight 771 from Karachi, Pakistan, to Abu Dhabi, UAE, bombed; all 117 aboard die.

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24 September

1661 - One of the oddest entries ever.... "Faithful Tadpole was admitted as a clerical vicar choral of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin on this day". Son of John Tadpole Sr. and brother of John Tadpole Jr., all three formed part of the choir reassembled after the restoration, it having been suppressed during the commonweath.

1880 - The birth of a common term. A Co.Mayo land agent wrote in The Times: "...people collect in crowds upon my farm and order off all my workmen. The shopkeepers have been warned to stop all supplies to my house. My farm is public property, I can get no workmen to do anything...." The land-agent who was sent to this 'moral Coventry.' was Captain Charles Boycott.

[Richard Frost]

1955 The New York Stock Exchange suffers a $44 million loss.

1969 The Beatles last album, Abbey Road, is released.

1984 The UK agrees to transfer sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China.

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Norman Conquest begun

On this day in 1066, after being delayed by bad weather, William, duke of Normandy, embarked his army and set sail for the south eastern coast of England in what would be known in history as the Norman Conquest.

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September 27 1662 - An "act for encouraging Protestant strangers and others to inhabit and plant in the kingdom of Ireland" is passed in the Dublin Parliament under Charles II. This was an "official" invitation after centuries of earlier plantations, aimed firstly at securing the Crown's dominance and secondly at suppressing the native Irish and Catholic populations.

[Richard Frost]

28 September 1968

The Beatles’ single Hey Jude goes to the top of the US Billboard chart and stays there for nine consecutive weeks, from 28 September to 23 November. It was the longest time spent by a Beatles single at number one, and also set a record at the time for the longest US number one.