April 24 Last day for Easter in non leap year in Gregorian calendar.

624 Mellitus, Bishop of London, first Bishop at St Paul’s, 624

1397 Thomas Holland, 2^nd Earl of Kent, 3^rd Baron Holand (1350 – 25 April 1397) was an English nobleman and a councilor of his half-brother Richard II. Thomas was the son of Thomas Holland, 1^st Earl of Kent and Joan of Kent. His mother was a daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, 1^st Earl of Kent and Margaret Wake. Edmund was in turn a son of Edward I of England and his second Queen consort Marguerite of France, and thus a younger half-brother of Edward II of England.

Edward II of England

1558 Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots married the Dauphin of France, François II, King of France, at Notre Dame de Paris.

1567 First printed book ever published in Gaelic. It was “Forms of Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Catechism of the Christian Faith,’’ translated from English by Bishop John Carsewell of the Isles.

1579 Earl of Athol; One of 24 Lords of the Congregation. John Stewart, 4^th Earl of Atholl¹ M, #109216, b. between 1533 and 1542, d. 24 April 1579     John Stewart, 4^th Earl of Atholl was born between 1533 and 1542. He was the son of John Stewart, 3^rd Earl of Atholl and Grizel Rattray. He married, firstly, Lady Elizabeth Gordon, daughter of George Gordon, 4^th Earl of Huntley and Elizabeth Keith, before 26 May 1547.

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Athol married, secondly, Margaret Fleming, daughter of Malcolm Fleming, 3^rd Lord Fleming and Janet Stewart, on 1 April 1557. He died on 24 April 1579 at Kincardine, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, suspected of poisoning. He was buried on 4 July 1579 at St. Gile’s Church, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. He succeeded to the title of 4^th Earl of Atholl [S., c. 1457] circa 1542. He was invested as a Privy Counselor (P.C.) [Scotland] in 1561. He was a zealous Roman Catholic. He held the office of Chancellor [Scotland] between 29 March 1578 and 24 April 1579.

Children of John Stewart, 4^th Earl of Atholl and Lady Elizabeth Gordon

Lady Elizabeth Stewart d. Sep 1595

Lady Margaret Stewart

Children of John Stewart, 4^th Earl of Atholl and Margaret Fleming

Lady Grizel Stewart

Lady Mary Stewart d. a 1587

Lady Jean Stewart d. Sep 1593

John Stewart, 5^th Earl of Atholl b. 22 May 1563, d. 25 Aug 1595

Citations- G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 313. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.

[Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 314. volume II, page 283. volume III, page 516.

Charles Mosley, editor, Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke’s Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003). Hereinafter cited as Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition. volume 1, page 1336.

1581 William Cunningham laird of Caprington, at General Assembly at Glasgow, appointed the king’s commissioner to the church, and presented his majesty’s letter to the Assembly. Anderson v 1/p.744.

1582 Raphael Holinshed’s death, author of Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, The historical content of Shakespeare’s play is drawn from which in turn borrows from Boece’s 1527 Scotorum Historiae, which flattered the antecedents of Boece’s patron, King James V of Scotland.

1650. Originating in Coldstream, Scotland in 1650 when General George Monck founded the Majesty’s Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, also known officially as the Coldstream Guards (COLDM GDS). It is one of two regiments of the Household Division that can trace its lineage to the New Model Army. Their nickname is ‘Lilywhites’. The regiment is always referred to as the Coldstream, never as the Coldstreams, likewise a member of the regiment is referred to as a Coldstreamer. The origin of the Coldstream Guards lies in the English Civil War when Oliver Cromwell gave Colonel George Monck permission to form his own regiment as part of the New Model Army. Monck took men from the regiments of George Fenwick and Sir Arthur Haselrig, five companies each, and on 23 August 1650 formed Monck’s Regiment of Foot. Less than two weeks later this force took part in the Battle of Dunbar, at which the Roundheads defeated the forces of Charles Stuart. Monck’s regiment was left in Scotland.

1726 – ROBERT MILLER III, (born 24 April 1726 Monkton, Ayr, Scotland) came in 1750 to South Carolina, married JANE PICKENS

1731 Daniel DeFoe died. Pseudonym Andrew Moreton, Esq. Printed by Andrew Millar VI, (clans Stewart, Lockhart, Hunter).

The Secrets of the Invisible World Disclos’d or, an Universal History of Apparitions Sacred and Profhane, Under all Denominations; whether Angelical, Diabolical, or Human Souls departed. Etc. London Printed for J. Clarke at the Royal Exchange; A. Millar over against St. Clement’s Church in the Strand; and J. Brindley, in New Bond Street 1738. Price 5 s.

1780 John Nourse, bookseller, died. Co-publisher with Andrew Millar in the Strand.

Dictionary Spanish and English etc, London Printed for A. Millar etc. in the Strand.

1800 The formation of the Library of Congress is celebrated. It will be the storage for the copyright samples of the United States.

1827 Mathematics student William Rowan Hamilton (4 August 1805 – 2 September 1865) presented his “Theory of Systems of Rays” at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin. It led to the development of the wave theory of light and led to the development of quantum mechanics.

Hamiltonian mechanics.

1850 Murdo Mackenzie (April 24, 1850 near Tain, Ross-shire, Scotland – May 30, 1939 in Denver, Colorado). President Teddy Roosevelt appointed him to the National Conservation Commission in 1908, and it was Mackenzie, then manager of the Brazil Land, Cattle and Packing Company, with whom Roosevelt stayed when he visited Brazil in 1913. Mackenzie sailed to the United States in 1885 to accept an offer to manage the Prairie Land and Cattle Company in Trinidad, Colorado and married Isabella Stronach MacBain in 1876.

Original cover of Raider of the Copper Hill. Art by Don Rosa. Fictional Scrooge McDuck’s employer, Murdo MacKenzie decides to quit, and therefore has to let Scrooge go.

1934 Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty; born Richmond Virginia, raised Arlington Virginia. Her mother, Kathlyn Corinne (née MacLean), was a drama teacher originally from Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada; (clan MacLean).

1953 – Winston Churchill (clan Montgomery) is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II (clans Stewart, Douglas, Drummond, Lennox).

1963 – Marriage of Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Kent to the Honorable Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London. Sir Angus James Bruce Ogilvy, KCVO PC (14 September 1928 – 26 December 2004) was a British businessman. Between 1946 and 1948, while on National service, Ogilvy was commissioned as an officer in the Scots Guards. He was the second son of the David Ogilvy, 12^th Earl of Airlie and Lady Alexandra Coke, the daughter of the 3^rd Earl of Leicester. The 12^th Earl in 1937 was Lord Lieutenant of Angus, a Knight of the Thistle in 1942 and was appointed Chancellor of the Order of the Thistle in 1956. The 12^th Earl was Commandant of the Army Cadet Forces, Scotland in 1943, and was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Law (LL.D) by St. Andrews University, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, in 1958.

1980 Amy Marie Nielsen nee Choate  (many great grand daughter of Thomas Holland,  and  Robert Miller 3^rd and Arizona Rozena Moritzky nee Lewis) Winner of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for 2011 investigative Reporting for Print media circulation between 50 and 100 thousand. (clans Abernethy 1350 Dictionary of National Biography (DNB)1-1:48/83-52/87; Albany Dukes of DNB1: 217; Alexander DNB 1:259/294-281; Angus 1184 DNB 1:419; Argyle dukes earls Campbell DNB 1:553; Armstrong 1860 GAL DNB 1:561/594-575; Arnot in Fife (1488) DNB 1:591/624-594)  Deseret News for Amy. Follow her column at Deseretnews.com

1998 U.S. moves N-material from Georgia to Scotland. a squad of Georgian policemen accompanied by American security agents entered a nuclear research laboratory outside this capital on Thursday, loaded a cargo of bomb-quality uranium onto a specially prepared truck and drove into the night.

The cache of uranium and spent nuclear fuel arrived at a military base in Scotland early Friday aboard a U.S. transport plane, a British news agency said. The operation was one of the most secretive of several that have brought nuclear material out of the former Soviet Union.

About one-fourth of Georgian territory is held by separatist rebels. Western diplomats and Georgian security planners feared that agents of the separatists, or squads working for groups in nearby Iran, Iraq or Chechnya, would try to seize the uranium and use it for blackmail.

Experts said there was enough uranium here to build a device capable of contaminating a large area, or even a nuclear bomb.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/626159/US-moves-N-material-from-Georgia-to-Scotland.html?pg=all

2017 Hi I’m Chelsea-Leigh Cameron – People, I am 15 years old, live in Scotland, love learning German and I am a Mormon. I am in 3rd year at a high school in Dundee. I really enjoy my time at school and especially enjoy studying German.

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