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Rene T.H. Laennec, Famed French physician born

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Representation of the people Act received Royal assent, granting votes to women over the age of 30

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Rev Henry Duncan, founder of the world-wide savings bank movement, died near Ruthwell

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Rev. John Witherspoon, President of Princeton College, signatory to the US Declaration of Independence, baptized

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Richard Piggott is exposed as forger of Times Phoenix Park letters

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Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, Viceroy and Governor-General of India, born

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Richard Trevithick Cornish inventor and engineer demonstrated the first steam driven, died.

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Rioting greets the Abbey Theatre performance of Sean O'Caseys The Plough and the Stars

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Robert Emmett, Irish patriot, born

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Robert Noonan, author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, dies

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Robert the Bruce murdered Red Comyn

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Robert the Bruce, captures Dumfries, Scotland