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Election for the new Scottish Parliament
May 6, 1999
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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
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Last major bombing attack on the Clyde area by the Luftwaffe
May 6, 1941
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Máire de Paor (née McDermott) archaeologist and arts activist, is born in Buncrana, Co. Donegal
May 6, 1925
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The U-20, a German U-boat commanded by Captain Schweiger, sinks the Centurion off the south-east Irish coast
May 6, 1916
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William Conor, painter, born in Belfast
May 6, 1884
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Phoenix Park murders, The assassination Lord Frederick Cavendish, and T.H. Burke
May 6, 1882
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Sir James Young Simpson advocate of chloroform, died.
May 6, 1870
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William Archer, Irish naturalist and librarian, born in Magherahamlet, Co. Down. Archer
May 6, 1830
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Robert O’Hara Burke, explorer, born in St. Cleran’s, Co. Galway
May 6, 1820
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Mary Molesworth, and her daughters Melosina and Mary die in a fire at their London house
May 6, 1763
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Act of Parliament removes the right to vote from Catholics
May 6, 1728
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Philip de Courtenay lands at Dalkey and campaigns in the midlands and the Leinster mountains
May 6, 1384
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Reginald II assumes Manx throne.
May 6, 1249
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Donatus (or Dunan), the first Bishop of Dublin, dies
May 6, 1074