May 06

Election for the new Scottish Parliament

May 6, 1999

Icelandic gunboats fired live rounds at British fishing trawlers, many of them from Scottish ports, during the Cod War over fishing rights

May 6, 1959

Last major bombing attack on the Clyde area by the Luftwaffe

May 6, 1941

Máire de Paor (née McDermott) archaeologist and arts activist, is born in Buncrana, Co. Donegal

May 6, 1925

The U-20, a German U-boat commanded by Captain Schweiger, sinks the Centurion off the south-east Irish coast

May 6, 1916

William Conor, painter, born in Belfast

May 6, 1884

Phoenix Park murders, The assassination Lord Frederick Cavendish, and T.H. Burke

May 6, 1882

Sir James Young Simpson advocate of chloroform, died.

May 6, 1870

William Archer, Irish naturalist and librarian, born in Magherahamlet, Co. Down. Archer

May 6, 1830

Robert O’Hara Burke, explorer, born in St. Cleran’s, Co. Galway

May 6, 1820

Mary Molesworth, and her daughters Melosina and Mary die in a fire at their London house

May 6, 1763

Act of Parliament removes the right to vote from Catholics

May 6, 1728

Philip de Courtenay lands at Dalkey and campaigns in the midlands and the Leinster mountains

May 6, 1384

Reginald II assumes Manx throne.

May 6, 1249

Donatus (or Dunan), the first Bishop of Dublin, dies

May 6, 1074