Lord Mountbatten along with 3 others was assassinated off coast of Sligo and 18 soldiers were killed by terrorist bombs in 1979 On This Day

Sean T. O Kelly 2nd President of Ireland was born in Dublin in 1882 On This Day

Maurice Dease, born in Coole Co. Westmeath was the first ever recipient of the Victoria Cross, killed in action at Mons in 1914 On This Day

Blessed Edmund Rice form Callan who founded the Christian and Presentation Brothers opened his first school in Waterford in 1802 On This Day

‘Fat Man’ containing a core of plutonium was dropped on Nagasaki and caused the deaths of an estimated 70,000 people in 1945 On This Day