1871 The Gaiety Theatre in Dublin opened with a performance of Goldsmith’s She stoops to conquer. 1869 Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, imprisoned Fenian, was returned as MP in a County Tipperary by-election but was disqualified as a convicted felon. 1812 John Dunlap, printer and publisher, who founded the first American daily newspaper, the Pennsylvania Packet (1771), later ... Read more
