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Oct 21, 2005 14:39:01 GMT 10
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October 22 1861 Foundation stones of main Post Office and National Museum of Scotland laid by Prince Albert in his last public engagement before his death.
October 22 1877 A firedamp explosion at Blantyre Colliery killed 207 miners.
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Oct 28, 2005 15:55:11 GMT 10
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October 23
October 23, 1295 The 'Auld Alliance' treaty was signed between John Balliol, King of Scots, and Philippe IV of France. Promising mutual military help against the English, the treaty was renewed by Robert The Bruce in 1326. It guaranteed response to English aggression against either party. Primarily it was a military and diplomatic alliance but for most of the population the treaty brought tangible benefits, through pay as mercenaries in France’s armies and trade links bringing the finest French wines to Scotland.
October 23, 1707 First meeting of the Parliament of Great Britain.
October 23 1773 Birth of Francis Jeffrey, first editor of the "Edinburgh Review".
October 23 1921 Death of John Boyd Dunlop who re-invented the pneumatic tyre from the design of Robert W Thomson.
October 23, 1940 Playwright, poet and jazz musician, Tom McGrath, was born. He has been central to the avant-garde movement in Scottish arts for nearly 30 years. An admirer of Edwin Morgan, he shows parallels in his poetry with that great verse-maker. An accomplished jazz musician and skilled entertainer, he later became best known writing for the stage. A number of famous plays include 'The Hardman' (1977), co-written with Glasgow murderer, Jimmy Boyle. He has also been Director of Glasgow's Third Eye Centre (1974-77), Associate Literary Director of Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre and is closely involved with the Scottish Arts Council.
October 23, 2000 The election of Michael Martin, a Roman Catholic from Glasgow, as Speaker of the British House of Commons. He had served as Deputy Speaker from 1997 to 2000 and became the first Catholic to hold the office since the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century. Born in 1945 and educated at St. Patrick’s Boys’ School in Glasgow, he married Mary McLay in 1966 and worked as a sheet metal worker. He was a shop steward at Rolls Royce (Hillington) from 1970 to 1974 and trade union organizer from 1976 to 1979. He became a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) from Glasgow Springburn in 1979 and served as Personal Private Secretary (PPS) to Dennis Healey from 1980 to 1983. An experienced committee chairman, having served on the Speaker's Panel of Chairmen and chaired the Scottish Grand Committee since 1987, his working class origins greatly contrasted with his primary rival for the speakership, Conservative Baronet Sir George Young. Martin is a family man with broad interests in history, hiking, and Highland bagpipe music.
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Oct 28, 2005 15:56:19 GMT 10
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October 24
October 24, 1796 The artist, David Roberts, was born in Edinburgh. The son of a shoemaker, who began his career as an apprentice house painter, Roberts became a scene painter for circuses and for the theatre. Having honed his skills, he became a Member of the Society of British Artists from 1824-1836. By 1838 he was made a Royal Academician. He also had an interest in the newly-'developed' art of photography, and the image is taken from one of the world's earliest known photographs.
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Oct 28, 2005 15:57:01 GMT 10
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25 October 287 Death of St Crispin, patron saint of shoemakers, whose incorporations celebrated him by processions and pageants in various burghs.
25 October 1514 Death of Bishop William Elphinstone, Chancellor of James III and founder of King's College, Aberdeen.
25 October 1586 Death sentence was pronounced against Mary, Queen of Scots. she had been imprisoned in England since 1568.
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Oct 28, 2005 15:57:56 GMT 10
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October 26
October 26, 1845 Lady Caroline Nairne, songwriter and poet, died at Gask.
October 26, 1911 The Gaelic poet, Sorley MacLean, was born on the island of Raasay. Maclean was a key force in the revitalising of the Gaelic language. After studying at the University of Edinburgh, he took up teaching as a career and was for many years head teacher at Plockton High School. His poetry brilliantly demonstrates the capacity of Gaelic to express themes ranging from passionate love to contemporary political and intellectual issues. While he broke with the conventions for Gaelic poetry that still prevailed when he started writing in the 1930s, his writing very much belongs to the eloquent continuum of the Gaelic oral tradition. Honoured with many major awards, including the Queen's Medal for Poetry, Sorley MacLean was the greatest Gaelic poet of the 20th century. He died in 1996.
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Oct 28, 2005 15:58:54 GMT 10
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October 27
October 27, 1736 James MacPherson, Scottish poet, was born. Author of 'The Works of Ossian', 'Fingal' and 'Temora', he gained international fame through his translations of early Gaelic poems. However, although they caused a sensation in both Britain and Europe, where they were credited with influencing the European Romantic movement, MacPherson was also charged with composing the works himself. This accusation gave rise to the so-called 'Ossian controversy'. The true story behind the poems has never been resolved.
October 27, 1761 The birth of pathologist Matthew Baillie at Shots Manse, Lanarkshire. A nephew of great anatomists William and John Hunter, He was educated at Oxford and became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal Society. His 1793 study, Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body, was the first systematic study of pathology ever undertaken and greatly advanced medical teaching. A devoted doctor, by 1800 his Practice was the largest in London. He died 23 September 1823 at Duntisbourne, Glouscestershire, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
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Oct 31, 2005 17:17:44 GMT 10
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October 30 1822 - Caledonian Canal opened.
October 30 1925 - First moving image on a television screen when John Logie Baird transmitted the image of a 15-year-old office boy in his London workshop.
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Oct 31, 2005 17:18:15 GMT 10
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October 31 1888 - Pneumatic bicycle tyres were patented by inventor John Boyd Dunlop from Ayrshire.
October 31 1903 - Hampden Park stadium opened in Glasgow as the home of Queen's Park Football Club.
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