Earlscliffe - Howth Weather

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1935 - DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
1954 - The first colour television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
1973 - The National Coalition of Fine Gael and Labour win an election in the Republic
1985 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day
1986 - Olof Palme, the prime minister of Sweden, is shot dead and his wife Lisbeth wounded in a street ambush in central Stockholm.
1991 - The first Gulf War ends.
2013 - Benedict XVI resigns as pope, becoming the first to do so since Gregory XII in 1415, and the first to do so voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294
2018 - Met Éireann issued a red weather warning, its most severe alert, for all of Munster and Leinster as the Beast from the East weather event arrived.
2018 - The UK's largest toy retailer, Toys "R" Us, goes into administration with a £15,000,000 VAT bill it is unable to pay. Also, one of the UK's biggest electronics retailers, Maplin, goes into administration after talks with potential buyers fail to secure a sale.
2020 - The first British death from COVID-19 is confirmed by the Japanese Health Ministry; a man quarantined on the Diamond Princess cruise ship