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Post by LLady on Sept 1, 2006 8:24:09 GMT 10
September 1 September 1 714 Death of St Giles, patron saint of Edinburgh (and Elgin).
September 1 1644 Battle of Tippermuir, in which Marquis of Montrose defeated Covenanters .
This day in 1720 saw the official marriage ceremony of Prince James Francis Edward Stewart and the Polish Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska. The marriage took place at the Italian Cathedral of Monte Fiascone, and the union led to the birth of Charles Stewart in Rome in 1720. Maria Clementina Sobieska was one of Europe's richest heiresses and brought the Stuarts a cash injection. The Polish Princess had been kidnapped on her way to the original wedding the preceding year to "The Old Pretender". She escaped, and had married James by proxy when he was away trying to raise support for the 1719 Rising. After the Rising was quashed, Jacobite hopes were raised in the form of the infant prince Charles.
In 1971, the sole remaining gas street lamp in Glasgow was lit for the last time. This signalled the end of an era - the age of the "leeries", or lamplighters, which began in 1718 with oil lamps. The gas lamps were phased out in favour of electric street lighting.
September 1 1985 Freuchie in Fife won the Village Cricket Cup at Lord's Cricket Ground, the first time a Scottish club side had played on such hallowed ground.
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Post by LLady on Sept 4, 2006 1:03:36 GMT 10
September 2
September 2 1834 Death of engineer, road, bridge and canal builder Thomas Telford. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Today in 1910 Roger MacDougall, the Scottish playwright and film screenwriter, was born. MacDougall was the author of the classic comedy play "The Man in the White Coat", which he also wrote the film script for as an Ealing Comedy. He also wrote the scripts for the Ealing comedies, "A Touch of Larceny" and "The Mouse That Roared". His other plays include, "Escapade" and "To Dorothy a Son" bopth adapted as films. MacDougall also treated himself when diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, changing his diet and making a substantial recovery from the disease.
This day in 1834 saw the death of Sir Thomas Telford, the pioneering engineer, road, bridge and canal builder. From humble beginnings in Westerkirk, Dumfrieshire, an encouraging patron supported Telford 's appointment to supervise the construction of the Ellesmere Canal in 1793. Nicknamed "The Colossus of Roads", he became chief civil engineer of an innovative scheme to improve communications in the Highlands, following a survey of the military roads created by General Wade during the Jacobite Rebellion. Telford also oversaw the construction of the Caledonian Canal, linking 60 miles of freshwater inlets, as well as building nearly 1,000 miles of roads and 120 bridges over a 20 year period. He gained a reputation as the finest civil engineer of his day. Work outside Scotland included the construction of the Menai suspension bridge, the Gotha canal in Sweden, and the aqueduct at Pont Cysylite, on Ellesmere Port, proclaimed by Sir Walter Scott as "the most impressive work of art I have ever seen." Telford was buried in Westminster Cathedral, having died penniless, the result of a prodigious talent who often undertook projects without being paid.
Bill Shankly, arguably the greatest football manager ever, was born in Glenbuck, Ayrshire on this day in 1913.His early career saw him winning seven caps for Scotland as a professional footballer. At the age of 33, Shankly was approaching the end of his playing days, so when the 1946-47 season brought professional football back post-war, Shankly embarked on a new career as a manager. After spells at the helms of northern clubs such as Grimsby and Huddersfield, he was appointed chairman of Liverpool in 1959. At this time Liverpool was languishing in the Second Division, with a crumbling stadium, and disorder in the committee ranks. Shankly turned this situation around and elevated Liverpool to the top of the league, the envy of all other clubs. Liverpool became synonymous with football, as well as music, in the sixties, when Liverpool F.C. won the F.A. cup in the 1965 season. A European trophy followed in the form of the UEFA cup. Bill Shankly, who died of a heart attack in 1981, will always be remembered as a charismatic legend of British football.
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Post by LLady on Sept 4, 2006 1:32:15 GMT 10
September 3
September 3 1571 Earl of Lennox, Regent of Scotland, murdered. Earl of Mar appointed Regent but he died in October 1572.
On this day in 1650, Cromwell defeated the Scots at the Battle of Dunbar. In 1650, the Covenanter forces sided with Charles ll against Oliver Cromwell. After a defeat at Leith, Cromwell retreated to Dunbar. The English troups were attacked by the Scottish army, led by David Leslie, but on the muddy slopes of the Lammermuirs, Cromwell emerged victorious. The site had been the scene of an earlier battle in 1296, and the Battle of Dunbar marked the first time campaign medals were used. September 3 1745 Prince Charles Edward Stuart proclaimed his father as King James VIII of Scotland at Perth.
September 3 1752 With the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, September 3 1752 became 14 September. Crowds flocked the streets demanding "Give us back our 11 days."
September 3 1787 Glasgow weavers riot after their wages are cut. Bricks were thrown at magistrates and soldiers then opened fire on the rioters, resulting in six being killed.
This day in 1797 saw rioting on the streets of Glasgow, as weavers expressed their anger at wage cuts. Workers burned their looms in the streets, and bricks were thrown at magistrates and soldiers, in protest at the city manufacturers' proposal to reduce the scale of wages. The disorder resulted in soldiers opening fire on the insurgents and six people were killed.
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Post by LLady on Sept 8, 2006 3:29:42 GMT 10
September 4
September 4 1241 King Alexander III born at Roxburgh.
On a rainy night on the 4th September 1962, the last of the famous green and yellow tramcars ran in Glasgow. The final scheduled tram ran from Dalmuir to Auchenshuggle in the city's East End, and marked the demise of a transportation system dating from August 1872. More than 200,000 Glaswegians turned out to bid a poignant farewell to the trams.
On this day in 1964 the Forth Road bridge was opened to the public. Construction had began in 1958, and at 6,156 feet long, with a centre span of 3300 feet, the suspension bridge spanning the River Forth at South Queensferry outside Edinburgh was the longest in Europe at that time
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Post by LLady on Sept 8, 2006 3:33:27 GMT 10
September 5
September 6 1715 The Earl of Mar unfurled the standard of the "Old Pretender" in Braemar at the start of the first Jacobite Uprising.
September 5 1750 Poet Robert Fergusson born in Edinburgh. This day in 1836 saw the birth of Henry Campbell Bannerman, the British Prime Minister. Born in Glasgow and educated at Glasgow and Cambridge, Bannerman became the Liberal MP for Stirling in 1868, a position he held until his death. He climbed the parliamentary ranks, serving as Secretary for Ireland during Gladstone's administration in 1884 and entering the cabinet as Secretary for War in 1886, before becoming leader of the Liberal Party in 1899. Bannerman became Prime Minister in 1905 following Balfour's resignation, and led his party to a landslide victory in the 1906 general election. His brilliant cabinet included Asquith, Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill. Ill health forced Bannerman to hand over the leadership to Asquith, and he died two weeks later in 1908.
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Post by LLady on Sept 8, 2006 3:36:31 GMT 10
September 6
On this day in 1715, John Erskine, the 6th Earl of Mar, unfurled the standard of the Old Pretender at Braemar. Mar raised the standard of behalf of James Francis Edward Stuart , thus starting the first of the major Jacobite Rebellions. The rising failed, largely due to Mar's incompetence, after an inconclusive battle at Sheriffmuir meant that the Jacobites had lost the initiative. The Earl and James fled to France, where Mar remained in exile until his death. He was known as "Bobbing John" because of his vacillating political allegiance. On this day in 1876, the Scottish physician and physiologist John James Macleod was born near Dunkeld. After studying medicine at Aberdeen and Leipzig, Macleod became head of the Department of Physiology at the University of Toronto. An expert in sugar metabolism and diabetes, he was approached by Canadian surgeon Frederick Banting, who had realised that if he could isolate the hitherto elusive pancreatic hormone, this may provide a treatment for diabetes. Though Macleod initially scorned his idea, Banting's persistent badgering paid off and he was allowed to join the department to work on his idea.Banting and his co-workers did indeed manage to isolate the hormone, and after diabetic dogs were successfully treated, eventually the ever-sceptical Macleod was convinced, and named it insulin. Macleod and Banting shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1926 and Macleod returned to Aberdeen as Professor of Physiology in 1928, dying there in 1935.
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Post by LLady on Sept 8, 2006 3:39:52 GMT 10
September 7
September 7 1306 Sir Simon Fraser, the "Scottish Patriot", who fought alongside Wallace and Robert the Bruce, was executed by the English and his head displayed in London alongside that of Wallace.
September 7 1736 A mob broke into the Tolbooth jail and removed Captain Porteous, reprieved for the killing of Edinburgh citizens during a riot on April 14. He was then hanged from a dyer's pole.
This day in 1836 saw the birth of Henry Campbell Bannerman, the British Prime Minister. Born in Glasgow and educated at Glasgow and Cambridge, Bannerman became the Liberal MP for Stirling in 1868, a position he held until his death. He climbed the parliamentary ranks, serving as Secretary for Ireland during Gladstone's administration in 1884 and entering the cabinet as Secretary for War in 1886, before becoming leader of the Liberal Party in 1899. Bannerman became Prime Minister in 1905 following Balfour's resignation, and led his party to a landslide victory in the 1906 general election. His brilliant cabinet included Asquith, Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill. Ill health forced Bannerman to hand over the leadership to Asquith, and he died two weeks later in 1908.
September 7 1842 Queen Victoria's first visit to Edinburgh.
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Post by neil6147 on Sept 12, 2006 3:32:20 GMT 10
11th September 2001 Let ys use this to remeber any Scottish people who lost their lives on this tragic day back in 2001. But more so all who lost their lives on this day back in 2001. Plus special thanks to the all branches of the rescue services which were involved. This also goes to the controllers ( dispatchers ) who had to deal with the panicing public and try to calm them down to make sense of the problem that had just happened.
We will remember all involved. Please at some time today take time out from your busy life to remember tham also.
From Neil and Christine in Scotland.
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Post by LLady on Sept 15, 2006 6:52:47 GMT 10
We will rember always!
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Post by LLady on Sept 15, 2006 6:54:46 GMT 10
September 8
This day in 1820 saw the hanging and beheading of John Baird and Andrew Hardie in Stirling, following the Battle of Bonnymuir in April. The Radicals, who were on strike from the weaving communities in outrage at decreased wages, had marched from Glasgow towards the Carron Iron Works in Falkirk. However, their ranks had been infiltrated by government agents and they were in fact being guided to an ambush with troops outside the village of Bonnybridge. During the battle, a Lieutenant of the 10th Hussars received a wound to the hand, a sergeant was severely wounded, and four Radicals were wounded. Following the skirmishes, 88 charges of treason were brought against men from across central Scotland, but Hardie and Baird were made an example of. Nineteen other radicals, including the 15 year old Alexander Johnstone, were transported to the penal colonies of New South Wales. Hardie's declaration ‘I die a martyr to the cause of truth and liberty', signalled the end of the "Radical War".
On this day in 1912, Alexander MacKendrick, the US born Scottish film director, screenwriter and teacher was born. MacKendrick was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and his family emigrated to Scotland soon after his birth. "Sandy" grew up in Glasgow and entered the world of cinema following an art school education and working on information productions during wartime. He was responsible for some of Ealing Studio's most classic works, and in 1949 he directed Whisky Galore!, an adaptation of Compton MacKenzie's iconoclastic tale set, and largely filmed, in the Hebrides. After the satirical wit of The Man in the White Suit (1951), and the dark, macabre comedy The Ladykillers in 1955, MacKendrick was enticed to America. In the U.S. he directed the critically acclaimed The Sweet Smell of Success, a sharp satire on the world of a New York gossip columnist. The film was a box-office failure, however, and the tensions between MacKendrick and the film's star, Burt Lancaster, undermined MacKendrick's subsequent career. He happily abandoned his cinematic career, after directing three more films, including A High Wind in Jamaica, in favour of teaching film at the California Institute of Fine Arts.
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Post by LLady on Sept 15, 2006 6:56:03 GMT 10
September 9
This day in September, 1513, saw James IV killed in battle at Flodden Field, near Branxton, in Northumberland. The opposing English and Scottish armies, led by the Earl of Surrey and James IV respectively, were roughly similar in size, numbering between 20 and 30,000 men. The initial position on Flodden Hilll favoured by the Scots was promising. However, the English guns found it easy to pick off the Scots. Both forces had sophisticated artillery, but the lighter and more manoeuvreable weaponry used by the English was more suited to the rain-soaked conditions of the hill. The carnage among the Scottish forces was heavy, reputed to be close to 10,000 men, including the king, nine earls, fourteen lords and a handful of prominent clerics, including the Archbishop of St.Andrews
On this day in 1543 Mary Queen of Scots was crowned in the security of Stirling Castle. Although only six days old at the time, Mary's coronation took place in the castle chapel following the death of her father, James V.
Alexander Nasmyth, the Scottish painter and architect notable for his portraits and landscapes, was born on this day in 1758. Nasmyth worked for the portraitist Allan Ramsay, who instilled in him the Enlightenment concepts of man's relationship to nature and the landscape. He set himself up as a portrait painter in 1778, but turned to landscape as a preferred subject following a trip to Italy and being exposed to the classical art there. His fascination with Roman and Greek facades led to him producing architectural plans for classical caprices, and St. Bernard's Well on the Water of Leith in Edinburgh was built according to his specifications. Nasmyth's most famous painting is his portrait of his friend and fellow radical, Robert Burns. A polymath typical of the time, Nasmyth also explored optical science, theatrical scene-painting, and naval engineering.
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Post by LLady on Sept 15, 2006 6:57:11 GMT 10
September 10
On this day in 1547, the Scots were defeated by the English at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, or Falside, near Edinburgh. The battle was sparked by the "Rough Wooing"; the English demands that the ten-year-old Edward VI should marry Mary Queen of Scots, aged five. The military campaign by Henry VIII on the Borders followed the reneged agreement by the Scots Parliament that the two crowns would be united by marriage. The battle was fought at Pinkie Cleugh (cleugh meaning narrow glen in Gaelic) outside Musselburgh. The Scottish forces had the strength of numbers, about 36,000 in contrast to the English 16,000, but were lacking in discipline. The English troups, led by the ambitious and experienced Duke of Somerset, slaughtered the Scottish forces, which were weak in cavalry and led by the uncertain Earl of Arran. It was estimated that 15,000 Scots were killed, and 1500 were captured, whereas English fatalities amounted to only 500. However the battle proved counter-productive for the English, whose distinctly "rough wooing" of the infant Mary precipitated her marriage to the French Dauphin, dashing English hopes. The Battle at Pinkie Cleugh can be regarded as the first "modern" battle on British soil; featuring combined arms, co-operation between infantry, artillery and cavalry and, most remarkably, a naval bombardment in support of land forces. Today in 1771 saw the birth of Mungo Park at Foulshiels, near Selkirk. On qualifying as a doctor from Edinburgh University, Park moved to London where he was appointed assistant surgeon on a expedition to Sumatra, under the direction of the botanist Sir Joseph Banks. Following this successful trip Park set off on a expedition to the unexplored territory of the Gambia. This arduous exploration was undertaken for pure scientific discovery, and, unlike many of his contemporaries, with a disregard for the establishing of trade routes. Park managed to explore the upper reaches of the Niger and map its progress, despite being taken prisoner by tribes. The unpretentious Park returned to London via the only means of transport, a slave ship, arriving back two years after his departure, having long been given up for dead. Africa called again for Park in 1804, when he was invited to head a government expedition to complete his exploration of the Niger. In contrast to the light party of Park's first expedition, this time around, his entourage consisted of 40 Europeans, and the trip was blighted by the rainy season. The team was decimated by fever and dysentery, and only 11 of the original party reached the Niger. The disastrous expedition peaked in the rapids of Bussa in Nigeria, as Park and his remaining companions met a watery end on the river. During his first exploration in Africa Park kept a journal, which was later published as "Travels into the Interior of Africa". Today, Mungo Park's statue stands in Selkirk High Street.
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