Check out some of the events that took place on this day in history:

1900 Born With The Wind

Margaret Mitchell, the author of Gone with the Wind, was born in Atlanta, Georgia.

1987 The Enniskillen Bombing

Eleven people were killed by a bomb explosion during a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen in County Fermanagh.

1990 First Irish Female President

Voters in the Republic of Ireland elected their first female President.

BORN ON THIS DAY

  • 1656 – Edmond Halley, the English astronomer and mathematician
  • 1981 – Joe Cole, the English footballer
  • 2003 – Lady Louise Windsor, a member of the British Royal Family

DIED ON THIS DAY