Ireland

Seán MacBride, IRA leader, politician, head of Amnesty International, born

Seán MacBride (26 January 1904 – 15 January 1988) was an Irish Clann na Poblachta politician who served as Minister for External Affairs from 1948 to 1951, Leader of Clann na Poblachta from 1946 to 1965 and Chief of Staff of the IRA from 1936 to 1937. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1947 to 1957.

Michael Davitt condemms attacks on Jews in Limerick

The Limerick Pogrom of 1904, during which Jewish residents in Limerick, particularly the Jewish quarter, faced anti-Semitic incidents and discrimination.

George Henry Perrott Buchanan, poet, novelist and journalist, born

George Buchanan, poet, novelist and journalist, is born in Kilwaughter, County Antrim

Sir William McCrea, mathematician and astronomer, is born in Dublin

Sir William McCrea, the Irish mathematician and astrophysicist, was born on December 13, 1904, in Dublin, Ireland. He made significant contributions to the fields of mathematics and astronomy during the 20th century.

Tomas O'Fiaich, Irish language author and Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh, is born

Hampden Park stadium opened in Glasgow as the home of Queens Park Football Club.

Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton is born at Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.

Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton is born in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford in 1903. A physicist and academic, Walton would go on to share the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sir John Douglas Cockcroft for their groundbreaking work in nuclear physics.

Frank OConnor, (pseudonym of Michael ODonovan), short-story writer and author of poetic translations from Irish is born in Cork

Padraic Pearse arrives in Ros Muc, County Galway and takes up residence at his cottage in Inbhear

The Land Purchase Act (Wyndham Act)

The Land Purchase (Ireland) Act of 1903, commonly known as the Wyndham Act, was a landmark piece of legislation that significantly advanced the process of land reform in Ireland. Named after George Wyndham, the Chief Secretary for Ireland who introduced the bill, the Act allowed tenant farmers to purchase the land they worked, with substantial financial support from the British government.