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August 08, 1981

Thomas McElwee, Irish polictical prisoner, dies on hunger strike in Maze prison, Northern Ireland.

August 08, 1923

The Civic Guard is renamed the Garda Siochana

August 08, 1781

James Gandon moves from London to Dublin; the first stone of his Customs House is laid on this date

August 08, 1694

Birth of Francis Hutcheson, Presbyterian philosopher, in Co. Down

August 08, 1588

The Spanish Armada is defeated by the English

August 08, 1503

King James IV married Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England.

August 08, 1296

King Edward I removed to England the Stone of Destiny on which generations of Scottish kings had been crowned.