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Events this week
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1457 |
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In a resolution of the 14th Parliament of
James II, convened in Edinburgh, the games of football
and golf were banned in favour of archery practice. It
stated "..that the fut ball and golf be utterly cryit
doun and nocht usit."
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1836 |
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The
Battle of the Alamo,1836, There were
four Scots born, Richard W Ballentine,
John McGregor
(piper), and Isaac Robinson.
David L. Wilson and
many others of Scots ancestry were among the 189 defenders who resisted
a Mexican army of 4,000 who began their assault at 0500 hrs.
The Alamo fell at 0630 hrs. Only the non combatants were
spared.
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1923 |
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The forerunner of the
BBC began broadcasting in
Scotland, from Glasgow, as
5SC.
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1744 |
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The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers held their
first meeting on Leith Links. The City of Edinburgh provided a silver club for competition which was won by
John Rattray. He joined the Jacobite '45 Rising after
the Battle of Prestonpans, becoming "Bonnie Prince Charlie's"
personal surgeon. He avoided execution thanks to the
intercession of Duncan Forbes, President of the Court of
Session, a golfing friend.
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1702 |
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William III
died at Kensington Palace after a fall from a horse.

Anne succeeded to the throne.
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1899 |
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Eric Linklater, author, born.
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1566 |
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David Rizzio, Mary Queen of Scots Italian Secretary,
murdered at Holyrood Palace.
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1648 |
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James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton died.
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1615 |
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John Ogilvie SJ, the only Catholic Martyr in Scotland,
was
executed in
Glasgow for saying Mass and for treason.

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1748 |
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John Playfair, mathematician,
born in Benvie, Forfarshire.
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1911 |
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Soldier and author,
Sir Fitzroy Maclean, born.
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1955 |
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Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, died.
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1881 |
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Andrew Watson, born in Guyana, son of a wealthy Scottish
planter, Peter Miller, and a local girl, Rose Watson, made
his first international appearance for Scotland's football
team.
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1945 |
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"HMS VENGEANCE" left Greenock, four months after
Commissioning, for the Mediterranean, and thence to join the
British Pacific Fleet.
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1395 |
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John Barbour, latterly Archdeacon of Aberdeen, and
known as the father of Scottish Literature, and author of
the account of Robert the Bruce,
died.
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1941 |
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The Clydebank Blitz, left 528 dead, 617 injured, and
48,000 homeless, many of whom never returned. Only 7
out of 12,000 houses intact.
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Scottish Knights
Templar project to verify dates and
events .
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