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Michelle O'Neill

Sinn Féin, heidit bi Michelle O'Neill (picturt), win the maist seats in the Northren Ireland Assembly election.
The Scots Pairlament haes Billy Kay dae it's first ever Time for Reflection Speech in Scots.
Twitter's buird o directors accepts a buy-oot offer frae Elon Musk.
Scientists annoonce the diskiverin o Earendel, the faurest knent individual star at 12.9 bullion light-year away frae Yird.

325 – The First Cooncil o Nicaea is formally appent, stairtin the first ecumenical cooncil o the Christian Kirk.
1498 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama diskivers the sea route tae Indie whan he arrives at Kozhikode (previously kent as Calicut), Indie.
1883 – Krakatoa begins tae erupt (picturt); the volcano explodes three months later, killin mair nor 36,000 fowk.
1932 – Amelia Earhart taks aff frae Newfoundland tae begin the warld's first solo nonstap flicht athort the Atlantic Ocean bi a female pilot, laundin in Ireland the next day.
1940 – The Holocaust: The first preesoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.