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Icelandic Gunboats Fired Live Rounds at British Fishing Trawlers, Many of Them From Scottish Ports, During the Cod War Over Fishing Rights

May 06, 1959

Icelandic gunboats fired live rounds at British fishing trawlers, many of them from Scottish ports, during the Cod War over fishing rights

Denis Law became the youngest footballer to play for Scotland

Eamon de Valera becomes President of Ireland.