Highlighted Events from November

First deaths from E-coli outbreak in Lanarkshire, Scotland

November 27, 1996

First deaths from E-coli outbreak in Lanarkshire, Scotland

Wishaw is a large town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, on the edge of the Clyde Valley, 15 miles (24 km) south-east of Glasgow city centre.

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Official founding date of the Provisional Committee of the Irish Volunteers

November 25, 1913

Official founding date of the Provisional Committee of the Irish Volunteers

The Irish Volunteers (Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann), also known as the Irish Volunteer Force or the Irish Volunteer Army, was a paramilitary organisation established in 1913 by nationalists and republicans in Ireland.

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Thomas (Buck) Whaley, MP for Enniscorthy, dies at Knutsford

November 2, 1800

Thomas (Buck) Whaley, MP for Enniscorthy, dies at Knutsford

Thomas (Buck) Whaley, MP for Enniscorthy, dies at Knutsford, apparently on his way from Liverpool to London. It is rumoured ‘that he was stabbed in a fit of jealousy by two sisters to whom he was paying marked attentions at a time when each of them was in

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Francis Andrews is appointed first professor of history at the University of Dublin

November 20, 1762

Francis Andrews is appointed first professor of history at the University of Dublin

Francis Andrews (1718 – 18 June 1774) was an Irish politician.

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