The Irish Free State became a fully independent republic on the 18^th of April 1949.

Happy birthday Hibernia.

The Ford Motor Company unveiled its new Mustang model on this day in 1964.

Happy Birthday horsey ……….. yeeeeeeeeeeeeee haw!

Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)

Samuel Beckett – author, critic and playwright. He won the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature.

He was born in Dublin on the 13^th of April 1906.

Happy birthday and Rest In Peace Samuel.

Kurt Cobain (1967-1994)

Rock singer/musician Kurt Cobain of Nirvana was found dead in Seattle of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on the 8^th of April 1994. He was 27 years old.

His suicide note was said to have contained a quote from Neil Young’s song “My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)”:

“It’s better to burn out than to fade away.”

Rest In Peace Kurt.

Henry Ford (1863-1947)

Henry Ford died on this day in 1947.

Rest In Peace Henry.

Tammy Wynette (1942-1998)

Today is the 10^th anniversary of the death of Tammy Wynette. Tammy died on April the 6^th 1998 at the age of 55. Tammy performs some of her most popular songs on the video.

The person who introduces Tammy on the video is none other than the actor Robert Urich. Urich died in 2002 as result of a rare form of cancer. He was 56 when he died.

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1887: British historian Lord Acton wrote in a letter, “All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”  (You should have taken note Bertie)

1895: Oscar Wilde lost his criminal libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry, who had accused the writer of homosexual practices.

1908: Actress Bette Davis was born.

1964: American Army General Douglas MacArthur died at the age 84.

1976: Reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes died at the age 72.