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Douglas Hydes Casadh an tSúgán - The Twisting of the Rope - is presented at The Gaiety Theatre in Dublin and becomes the first staged Irish-language play

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Dr Henry Faulds, a Scots medical missionary working in Japan, published a letter in Nature which gave the first evidence that fingerprints could be used as proof of guilt or innocence in legal cases.

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Dr Marie Stopes, founder of first modern birth control clinic, born Edinburgh.

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Duel between John Gustavus Crosbie and Sir Barry Denny, the sitting MP, the first fire Denny is shot fatally