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Jul 2, 2005 0:34:09 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Jul 2, 2005 0:34:09 GMT 10
July 1
July 1, 1505 Seal granted by Edinburgh Town Council to the Incorporation of Barbers and Surgeons to practise their craft. The organisation is now known as the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
July 1, 1543 Treaty of Greenwich, between Henry VIII and Earl of Arran, Regent of Scotland, agreeing betrothal of Mary Queen of Scots (aged 6 months) and Edward Prince of Wales (aged 6 years). The treaty was repudiated by the Scots Parliament.
July 1, 1731 Admiral Adam Duncan, the Scottish sailor was born. A native of Dundee, Duncan was born into a mercantile family but left home at fifteen to become a midshipman in the navy. Duncan went on to command 'HMS Blenheim' at the relief of Gibraltar in October 1782, but his greatest moment was the victory over the Dutch at the battle of Camperdown in 1797. Camperdown was a disaster for the Dutch, with their fleet being crushed and their commander, Admiral de Winther, being captured. Duncan returned to great acclaim and was awarded the title of Viscount Duncan of Camperdown.
July 1, 1782 Proscription Act Repealed, thus allowing again the wearing of tartan and the carrying of weapons (banned as a result of the 1745 Uprising in support of Bonnie Prince Charlie).
July 1, 1815 Union Bank of Scotland opened.
July 1, 1836 North of Scotland Bank founded in Aberdeen. It is now part of the Clydesdale Bank.
July 1, 1884 Allan Pinkerton, the Scottish-born detective, died. The son of a Glasgow policeman, Pinkerton trained as a cooper before emigrating to the USA in 1842. Rumour has it that he fled for fear of imminent arrest. After serving as a sheriff in Chicago, he set up the Pinkerton detective agency. He was responsible for guarding Abraham Lincoln and saved him from assassination in 1861. Pinkerton also served as chief of US Secret Service during the American Civil War. The Pinkerton company logo was "We Never Sleep", and emblazoned above the logo on the company headquarters was a huge black and white eye, which gave rise to the expression private eye.
July 1, 1937 The 999 emergency telephone service came into operation for police, fire, ambulance and coastguards.
July 1, 1940 Birth of Craig Brown, former manager of the Scotland football (soccer) team.
July 1, 1999 July 1, 1999 the reconvened Scottish Parliament was officially opened. After a devolution referendum showed resounding support for the reconvening of the Scottish parliament, plans were put into motion for the creation of such a body. The parliament would sit in the Church of Scotland Assembly Hall in Edinburgh. Elections were held on May 1 1999 and the first sitting of the body took place on May 12 of that year. The official opening on July 1 saw the Queen transfer full constitutional powers to Edinburgh.
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July
Jul 2, 2005 6:39:43 GMT 10
Post by LLady on Jul 2, 2005 6:39:43 GMT 10
Wonderful Elly!
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Jul 2, 2005 7:36:25 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Jul 2, 2005 7:36:25 GMT 10
Glad you enjoy it Llady
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Jul 2, 2005 7:40:22 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Jul 2, 2005 7:40:22 GMT 10
2nd July
1266 - Treaty of Perth, Norway renounces claim on the Hebrides.
Alan Pinkerton dies on this day in 1884. Famous for setting up the world's best known 'detective agency', Pinkerton was born in Glasgow in 1819, before emigrating to the USA in 1842 where he made his name.
July 2 1903 - Birth of Lord Home of the Hirsel, Foreign Secretary and UK Prime Minister.
July 2 1908 - Dumfries reached a temperature of 32.8C (91F), the highest recorded in Scotland - so far.
July 2 1971 - Erskine Bridge over the River Clyde opened
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Jul 4, 2005 23:57:28 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Jul 4, 2005 23:57:28 GMT 10
July 3
July 3,1582 James Crichton of Eliock, the original "Admirable Crichton", died in a brawl in Mantua. Soldier, scholar, poet and athlete, he was a graduate of St Andrews University and a tutor of King James VI.
July 3, 1728 Robert Adam, the Scottish architect, furniture and interior designer, was born. Adam is regarded as a leading exponent of the neoclassical revival in the latter part of the 18th Century. As equally well-regarded for the interior designs of his buildings as the exteriors, the Old Quad of the University of Edinburgh is a good example of his work in Scotland.
July 3, 1883 The Clyde shipyards suffered their worst accident when the SS Daphne capsized at her launch. The packet steamer had been built by the Linthouse yard of Alexander Stephen and Sons and immediately sank into the River Clyde, taking the lives of the 195 workmen on board. It was later discovered that the 460-ton ship had little stability when it was launched, and rolled over forty-five degrees, taking huge amounts of water through a large deck opening.
July 3, 1928 John Logie Baird transmitted first colour television.
July 3, 1954 The wartime miseries of rationing finally come to an end in the UK today in 1954 - nearly ten years after the war's end!
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July
Jul 5, 2005 10:57:20 GMT 10
Post by LLady on Jul 5, 2005 10:57:20 GMT 10
I wonder why it took so long to end rationing? I'll have to ask my grandmother when did it end here. She still has some rationing coupons from that era.
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Jul 6, 2005 0:16:51 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Jul 6, 2005 0:16:51 GMT 10
Yes it`s a long long time, to have it, didn`t realise either.
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Jul 6, 2005 21:52:57 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Jul 6, 2005 21:52:57 GMT 10
July 4
July 4, 1899 Roy Henderson, the Scottish operatic baritone was born. Henderson sang the role of Count Almaviva in Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro' at the inauguration of Glyndebourne Festival Opera on 28 May 1934.
July 4 1892 Lanarkshire-born James Keir Hardie became the first socialist to win a seat in the UK Parliament
July 4, 1913 Scottish novelist, Oswald Wynd, was born. Wynd was born in Japan to Scots missionary parents. He lived there for most of his youth and acquired joint citizenship. During the war, Wynd's regiment was ambushed in Malaysia by Japanese forces and he was held in Japan as a prisoner. He was released after the war and left Japan, vowing never to return, although the country loomed over many of his works as an author. Wynd's most well-known work is 'The Ginger Tree', the tale of a Scotswoman's life in Japan in the early part of the century. He is also known as the writer of thrillers under the pseudonym Gavin Black.
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Jul 6, 2005 21:58:18 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Jul 6, 2005 21:58:18 GMT 10
July 5
July 5, 1530 Border reiver, John Armstrong of Gilnockie, and 50 of his men were hanged for blackmail by James V. Armstrong was a well-known laird in the Borders area, and although a frequent marauder in England, he is not known to have attacked in Scotland. However, his wealth and power in a troublesome region brought the resentment of James V. Armstrong was tricked into attending a royal hunt only to be seized on his arrival. He faced the king, and volubly remonstrated with him that he had "asked grace at a graceless face." Legend has it that the trees at Carnlanrig, where Armstrong and his followers were hanged, withered, and none have grown there since.
July 5, 1746 British Linen Company(later Bank) received its Charter.
July 5, 1820 William Rankine, the engineer and physicist, was born. Rankine is noted for his work in thermodynamics. He devised the 'Rankine Cycle', a theoretical ideal process for the operation of turbines and steam engines, in which a condensing vapour is the working fluid. He served as the first President of the Institute of Engineers in Scotland.
July 5, 1847 Final run of the Edinburgh to London mail coach (trains had taken over).
July 5, 1940 A convoy of gold bullion worth 1,800 million pounds sails from the River Clyde. July 5, 1996
Scientific history is made today in 1996 as Dolly the sheep is born at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh. Dolly's claim to fame is that she is the first mammal to be 'created' artificially - a clone.
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Jul 8, 2005 19:41:41 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Jul 8, 2005 19:41:41 GMT 10
July 6
July 6, 1560 Treaty of Edinburgh between Scotland and England.
6 July 1747 The birth of American naval hero, John Paul Jones, a son of gardener John Paul and Jean MacDuff, at Kirkbean Parish, Kirkcudbrightshrie, southwest Scotland. After some education at the parish school, young John crossed the nearby Solway Firth, that separates Scotland from England, and became a sailor. He served on a variety of ships, including a slaver, and visited Virginia and the West Indies. While in the latter, he ordered a fatal flogging of a negligent seaman, for which he was charged with murder and imprisoned in the ‘tolbooth’ (jail) of Kirkcudbright. He was eventually released but, after killing a mutineer on another voyage, fled to Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he added Jones to his name. As a veteran merchant captain, the Continental Congress appointed him in 1775 as the first lieutenant in the fledgling American navy. A bold sailor and tenacious fighter, he became Captain of the Providence in 1776 and captured over twenty five British merchant ships. He sailed the sloop Ranger to France in 1777 where he was befriended by Benjamin Franklin who supported his plan of hit and run raids on the British Isles. In 1778, Jones brought consternation to the British government and public by raiding the Irish Sea where he took the British sloop Drake, spiked the guns of the forts of Whitehaven, pillaged the home of the Scottish Earl of Selkirk, and captured seven prizes. The following year, off the North Sea coast of England, he won immortal glory by fighting his worn-out Indiaman, the Bohomme Richard, to victory over the superior British frigate, the Serapis. It was here that he is supposed to have said "I have not yet begun to fight" when called upon to surrender. He returned to Paris with great acclaim and remained in Europe except for a trip to America in 1787 to receive a Congressional gold medal. He served as a Rear Admiral in the Russian navy against the Turks but rivalries with other officers, many of them British, limited his effectiveness and induced him to return to Paris where he died, almost alone and forgotten, in 1792. In 1905, his remains were located and a grateful nation, which properly considers him the ‘Father of the American Navy,’ re-interred him with honor in the crypt of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis.
July 6, 1875 Institute of Bankers in Scotland formed, the first professional association of bankers in the world.
July 6 ,1919 Airship R34, constructed by Glasgow's Beardmore Engineering Co., landed Long Island, USA after the first Trans-Atlantic airship flight - from East Fortune, East Lothian. It took 108 hours.
July 6, 1988 At around ten o'clock in the evening of July 6, 1988 the Piper Alpha oil platform in the North Sea was rocked by a huge explosion. Blasts continued on the platform throughout that night, and by morning 167 men had died. Only 61 men were taken from the platform alive, and two seamen on the rescue vessel, Sandhaven, also died.
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Jul 8, 2005 19:46:50 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Jul 8, 2005 19:46:50 GMT 10
July 7
July 7, 1307 King Edward I of England died on his last punitive expedition to Scotland at Burgh-on-Sands, near Carlisle. The epitaph to him in Westminster Abbey, London, reads "Edwardus Primus Scotorum Malleus hic est." -"Edward the First, hammer of the Scots." His successor, Edward II, was to prove less successful in dealing with Scotland.
July 7, 1548 Treaty of Haddington, between France and Scotland, confirming the betrothal of Mary Queen of Scots and Dauphin of France.
July 7, 1559 John Knox became the first Protestant minister appointed in Edinburgh.
July 7, 1814 On this day in 1814 the novel 'Waverley', by Sir Walter Scott, was published. Waverley was Scott's first novel, and written mainly as a way of proving himself a superior literary talent to Byron. Although it was published anonymously as a safety net against its failure, it was an open secret who the author was. Scott needn't have worried: the book was a runaway success and Scott became regarded as the leading author in Europe.
July 7, 1925 Kelvin Hall exhibition building, Glasgow, destroyed by fire.
July 7, 1930 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle author of the Sherlock Holmes detective stories, died.
July 7, 1976 David Steel (now Lord Steel of Aikwood) became leader of the Liberal Party.
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July
Jul 9, 2005 4:23:46 GMT 10
Post by dreamy on Jul 9, 2005 4:23:46 GMT 10
July 6 July 6, 1988 At around ten o'clock in the evening of July 6, 1988 the Piper Alpha oil platform in the North Sea was rocked by a huge explosion. Blasts continued on the platform throughout that night, and by morning 167 men had died. Only 61 men were taken from the platform alive, and two seamen on the rescue vessel, Sandhaven, also died. I had almost forgotten about that...it was a tragedy we followed in the news because one of my parents' friend was involved... Wonderful job, Elly!
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