July 20 320 Margaret of Antioch Martyr 4^th century feast day.

600 circa. First to mention Arthur by name. Written circa 600 AD by the poet Aneurin, describing a failed battle against the Angles at Catterick. Describing one warrior.  He struck before the three hundred bravest. He would slay both middle and flank. He was suited to the forefront of a most generous host.
 He would give gifts from a herd of horses in winter.
 He would feed black ravens on the wall.
 Of a fortress, though he were not Arthur Edinburgh. http://www.templum.freeserve.co.uk/history/strathclyde/arthur.htm

966. 966 AD. Eclipse of sun viewed in Scotland.

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Dub (Dubh or Duff) (Dubh mac Mhaoil Chaluim) murdered at Forres, succeeded by Cuilén (Cailean), succeeded by Amlaíb

(Amhlaigh) succeeded by Kenneth II (Coinneach mac Mhaoil Chaluim). Kenneth plundered Northumbria three times, first as far as Stainmore, then to Cluiam and lastly to the River Dee by Chester. These raids may belong to around 980, when the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records attacks on Cheshire. Succeeded by Constantine III (Còiseam mac Chailein) last of the line of Áed (Áed mac Cináeda) to have been king 997 AD. Kenneth II “The Fratricide’’

1304 Fall of Stirling Castle, Sunday, William Oliphant, commander of the castle, was imprisoned in the Tower of London. Siege of Stirling Castle         The English under Edward I capture Stirling Castle. First War of Scottish Independence

The Castle of Stirling

Bruce and Bishop Lamberton sign pact to resist Edward – 1304. Witnessing the destruction of Stirling Castle, Bruce and Lamberton, Bishop of St Andrews, sign a pact to resist the English. Under the terms Bruce would become king in place of Balliol. Video: A history of Scotland: Bishop Makes King.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/wars_of_independence/bruce_and_bishop_lamberton_sign_pact_to_resist_edward/

1332 Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray dies, was Guardian of King David II. Negotiator of Treaty of Corbeil Renews the Auld Alliance between France and Scotland.

1333 Halidon Hill. Berwick. English army on top of the hill, across a marshy morass, are the Scots army. English archers killed many Scots. Great slaughter of the scots. The Earls of Lennox, Ross, Carrick, Sutherland, Strathern and Athole, many barons and 14,000 Scots left dead on the field. Berwick surrendered to the English. The Earl of March, governor of castle at Berwick gave in also. Baliol became leader of most of Scotland. Tytler’s Britannica 60.

1354 A dreadful pestilence, (pest from Latin for bubonic plague) sweeping Europe for years, reached Scotland. One third of the Scots died. Tytler’s Britannica 66. ‘Repent, repent ye, Hear the words of that God who made you, by the voice of pestilence.’ Jesus Christ in Doctrine and Covenants section 43.

The Black Death entered the British Isles in the English town of Weymouth, a seaport in the county of Dorset that was of considerable importance at the time, in June of 1348. www.myhistro.com

1499 Anglo-Scottish treaty made at Stirling Castle, on 20 July 1499. In March 1499, Ayala wrote to Raimondo’s master, Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, that he would further the Duke’s interests in England without prejudice to Raimondo, and subsequently Ayala spoke to Henry to extend Raimondo’s stay in London. James IV’s confidence in Ayala remained so great that in 1500 James repeatedly asked Ayala to return to Scotland to advise James on James proposed marriage to Margaret Tudor. Eventually, Ayala returned to Scottish affairs to assist in the conclusion of the Anglo-Scottish treaty.

1554 – John Knox published a pamphlet attacking Mary Tudor, Queen of England, and the bishops who had brought her to the throne. Knox also attacked the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, calling Charles “no less enemy to Christ than was Nero”. Deliver us from evil. John Knox Preche la Reforme A St. Giles D’Edinbourg Devant La Covr De Mari Stuart

1558 summer, Knox published his best known pamphlet, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regimen of Women. In calling the “regimen” or rule of women “monstrous”, he meant that it was “unnatural”.

The title page of The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regimen of Women by Mr. John Knox, Minister of the Gospel at Edenburgh, to which is added, The Contents of the Second Blast, and A Letter from John Knox to the People of Edenburgh, Anno 1572, Edinburgh, Printed, and Philadelphia, Re-printed by Andrew Steuart, in Second Series, MDCCLXVI from an eighteenth century edition.

1588. 1588. Howard’s and Sir Francis Drake’s ships arrived off the Eddystone Rock where the Armada caught sight of the English. The execution of Mary Queen of Scots in 1587 was the final incentive for the invasion. Way little, Way late.  The Armada in the Channel

1637 Edinburgh. Thursday. The Church of England Common Prayer book is being printed in Edinburgh. Its reading on Sunday July 23^rd  1637, at St. Giles, will be historic. The Church of Scotland derived its service from 1555 and John Knox in Geneva, and adopted a new prayer book, The Form of Prayers, which derived principally from Calvin’s French La Forme des Prières (Maxwell 1965, p. 5). Consequently, when the accession of Queen Elizabeth (1558) re-asserted the dominance of the reformed Church of England, after Queen Mary’s Roman Catholicism (1553-1558) and ‘Bloody Mary’ to the Protestants, there remained a significant body of more Protestant believers who were nevertheless hostile to the Church of England Book of Common Prayer. John Knox took The Form of Prayers with him to Scotland, where it formed the basis of the Scottish Book of Common Order. Wikipedia.

Cranmer’s The Book of Common Prayer of 1552, Sacraments and other rites and Ceremonies in the Chuch of Englande, title page. The policy of incremental reform was now unveiled: more Roman Catholic practices were now excised, as doctrines had in 1549 been subtly changed. Thus, in the Eucharist, gone were the words Mass and altar; the ‘Lord have mercy’ was interleaved into a recitation of the Ten Commandments and the Gloria was removed to the end of the service.

1643 Battle of Gainsborough

1651 Battle of Inverkeithing, Scotland

1707 William Armstrong 1699 Langholm Dumfries, Scotland or born 20 JUL 1707  Andrew, Canonbie, Dumfries, Scotland, died About 1753  Catawba Creek, Augusta, Virginia married 11 OCT 1724 Kirk Andrew, Carlisle, Cumberland, Kirkandrews-on-Esk, Cumbria, England, to Susanna Blythe born About 1711, they had Lancelot Armstrong 1740-1802 (immigrant to America)

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20 July 1813. Duncan McDougall, Junior, of Scotland, married Elvanox, daughter of local Chinook chief Comcomly. Alexander Henry recorded that the transactions associated with the marriage were spread over a considerable period. Ancestress of John Christopher Stevens, Ambassador to Libya, assassinated in Benghazi Libya September 11, 2012. The subsequent cover up to blame the attack on students and videos lead to blames on the National Intelligence Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, which lead to leaking of flash traffic, emails, of the truth of the events. Glen Beck in front of a slide showing the burning Benghazi American Embassy, Sept 11, 2012, wherein Ambassador Stevens (clans Shaw and McDougal).

1831 Sabbath. Joseph Smith the Prophet, in Zion, Jackson County, Missouri, (clans Huntley, Hamilton, Mackenzie, Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King O Scots) Doctrine and Covenants 57. This is the ^aland of promise.’

The Valley of Adam ondi Ahman.

1932 – In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas and burn out their camps of World War I veterans, the Bonus Expeditionary Force, after Congress denied honoring promises of Bonuses of $1500 each, made 15 years earlier. Media coverage was so overwhelmingly and universally negative that the Democratic landslide in the election or 1932 guaranteed the Democrats the House, Senate, or Executive, for 20 years, or one, for the next 62 years, many times by wide margins.   The Bonuses remained unpaid during most of the Great depression, however, being vetoed, by President Roosevelt.

1969 Two Scots land on the Moon. Clan Armstrong, a Scottish clan from the border area between England and Scotland. Neil Armstrong (died 25 August 2012), became the first human, of record, to step onto the surface of the moon, 1969, taking with him a piece of the Armstrong tartan. The Source of the Armstrong tartan story is Wikipedia. But, according to the Nasa.gov web site I read this; Ken MacTaggart wrote Other Journal contributors helped resolve the claim I found in the book of a Scottish academic colleague, that Alan Bean left a swatch of tartan (plaid) on the moon during Apollo 12. In fact he didn’t, and only realised his genealogical connection with the MacBean Clan after the flight. See

http://next.nasa.gov/alsj/MacTaggart.html

So according to MacTaggart,  it was Bean’s story, not Armstrong’s and it didn’t happen. All 3 were Scots. So Molly’s question was useful. A sept of Ross clan, other spellings include MacIntagart MacIntagerit MacIntargart MacKinsagart MacKintaggart, MacKyntagart MacKyntaggart MacSagart MacTagart MacTaggard, MacTaggart MacTaggate MacTaggert MacTaggit Makintalgart, Myketagart Tagart Taggart Taggert Tegart Teggart.

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Col. Buzz Aldrin. on July 20, 1969, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong (d. 25 August 2012), made their Apollo 11 moonwalk, becoming the first two humans recorded to have set foot on another world. They spent 21 hours on the lunar surface and returned with 46 pounds of moon rocks.  The largest worldwide television audience – an estimated 600 million people, witnessed this unprecedented heroic endeavor. Buzz’s scots ancestors from Robert Munro his 4^th GGF Hector, Isle of Mull Scotland 1387-1411

4^th GGM Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland

5^th GGF John Stewart Lord oF Lorne 1360-1421

5^th GGM Isabel Ergadia heiress of Lorn, Argyll, Scotland

6^th GGF Robert Stewart, 1310 Scot

6^th GGM janet Isaac 1330 Scot

2^nd GGF Archibald Campbell 1^st Earl of Argyll, 1420-1493 d Tullibardine Perth Scotland

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3^rd GGM Elizabeth Somerville 1390 Lanarkshire

4^th GGF Walter Stewart High Steward 1292-1326 Bathgate West Lothian Scotland

4^th GGM Princess Marjorie Bruce 1297 Dundonald Ayr Scotland

4^th GGF Hugh Lutterell, Dunster, Somerset, England

4^th GGF Ian John Lyon Angus Scotland 1340-1376

4^th GGM Jean Stewart 1350 Dundonald Ayr Scot

4^th GGF Patrick Graham d 1412 Kilpont Scotland

4^th GGM Euphemia Stewart 1375 Dundonald Ay Scot

4^th GGF Sir Walter Ogilvy 1360 Scot

4^th GGM Isabel Ramsay 1352 Scot

4^th GGF Sir John Glen 1390 Balmuto Scot

Biography

The Eagle in lunar orbit after separating from Columbia.

Landing site of Apollo 11 at Sea of Tranquility. Aldrin was an elder at Webster Presbyterian Church in Webster, Texas. His communion kit was prepared by the pastor of the church, the Rev. Dean Woodruff. Aldrin described communion on the Moon and the involvement of his church and pastor in the October 1970 edition of Guideposts magazine and in his book Return to Earth. Webster Presbyterian possesses the chalice used on the Moon and commemorates the event each year on the Sunday closest to July 20.

1978

Viking Mission to Mars, 1978 Issue.

2012

Tartan Diaper.

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