The Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army, Gen. Liam Lynch, was fatally wounded in an ambush by the Irish Free State National Army in the Knockmealdown Mountains.
Lynch's party was fleeing a Free State unit to start with when it ran into the ambush. His death brought about the effective end of the Irish Civil War, which the IRA was already losing. His successor, Frank Aiken, gave the order to cease operations twenty days later.
Lynch was provided with a Priest and a doctor upon being captured, at his request, noting that he was dying. He was 30 years old.
The Conservative government of British Prime Minister Bonar Law fell in a suddenly called vote of no confidence.
Clerks of the Department of the Interior enjoyed a break:
