Today on Celtic History on

June 1st

Tue 01 Jun 1982

Pope John Paul II in Glasgow.

Sat 01 Jun 1957

First Premium Bond prizes were drawn by the computer Ernie (Electronic random number indicator equipment).

Sat 01 Jun 1946

First TV license issued in Britain, costing £2.

Sun 01 Jun 1919

Eamon DeValera begins his tour of the USA to raise money and support for the IRAs war against England

Sat 01 Jun 1878

First Tay rail bridge opens. It was to collapse, 18 months later in the Tay Bridge Disaster.

Fri 01 Jun 1866

American Fenians led by General John ONeill invade Canada and capture Fort Erie.

Fri 01 Jun 1866

Renegade Irish Fenians invade Ft. Erie Ontario from the US

Fri 01 Jun 1860

Birth of Hugh Thomson, illustrator, in Coleraine, Co. Derry-Londonderry

Tue 01 Jun 1852

The Magnetc Telegraph Company links Britain and Ireland via submarine telegraph cable

Thu 01 Jun 1843

Dr Henry Faulds, who established the uniqueness of fingerprints, born in Beith, Ayrshire.

Tue 01 Jun 1841

Poet and songwriter Robert Allan (born in Kilbarchan in, 1774) died in New York, six days after sailing there from Scotland to join his son. He had believed that his poetry would be better appreciated in North America.

Tue 01 Jun 1762

Birth in Callan, Co. Kilkenny of Edmund Ignatius Rice, educator, philanthropist, and the founder of the Irish Christian Brothers Order

Thu 01 Jun 1679

Covenanters defeated John Graham of Claverhouse at Drumclog.