April 6  Scotland Capital — Edinburgh Area – Total 78,387 km2 Population — 5,313,600

SENATE RESOLUTION 155–DESIGNATING “NATIONAL TARTAN DAY”

Jesus Christ’s birthday.

‘Old’ Lady Day (6 April under the Gregorian calendar) feast day. From the 12^th century to 1752, the civil legal year in England began on 25 March (Lady Day) Julian Calendar. Scotland began January 1 in 1600, but still the Julian calendar. England and Scotland and her colonies (American) effective 1752 changed from Julian to Gregorian Calendar. The change from Julian to Gregorian calendar, lost eleven days from September. 25 March auld Style Julian, is 6 April New Style Gregorian, and April 6, is still the first day of the fiscal year in the United Kingdom or as it is supposed according to Wikipedia.

Anno Domini 1 Jesus ben Joseph, born in Bethlehem, see Luke and Matthew. Later distinguished as Jesus Christ, Jehovah, and 5 dozen other titles to wit (numbers are Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1985), Advocate , Almighty 70 72, Anointed 175, Beloved 26, 155, Bread of Life 115 Bridegroom 39 , Christ 122 134 140 plus 18 more, Comforter 108 115, Cornerstone, Creator 90, David’s Son 69, Deliverer 6 7, Eternal Father 40 126, Exemplar , Father 73 plus 12 more, Father in Heaven 132, Firstborn , Friend 73 118 129 136, God 115 122 124 plus 71 times more, God is help, GOD the Father 76 78 80 133 , God of Hosts 80, God of Israel , God of Jacob 17, Gods 27 , God’s Son 134, Good Shepherd , Guardian 78 108, Guide 78, Head 11 21 48 , Head of the Church , Heavenly Father 125 156, High Priest after the Order of Melchizedek, Him 93 176 177, I am 196 , Jehovah 3 27 28 83 122, Jesus 3 11 plus 25 more, Jesus Christ , Jesus of Nazareth 181, Judge 126,   Jeshua , King 9 15 18 plus 25 more, Lamb 2 39 67 196, Lamb of God, Leader 135, Life 73 145,   Light 97, Light of the World , Lord 5 6 10 plus 60 times more, Lord of Hosts 178, Love 119, Majesty 145, Maker 79 93, Mary’s son 134, Master 108 , Mediator, Messenger of the Covenant, Messiah 32 50, One 127 155 294, Only Begotten Son, Priest 136, Prince of Life 186, Prince of Peace 50, Prophet 136,   Redeemer 6 15 65 plus 9 more, Rock, Rock of Ages 46 111, Ruler 78, Savior 44 47 plus 31 more, Shepherd 108, Son 24 26 plus 9 more, Son of Man, Sovereign Wondrous 104, Spirit 40 50 plus 14 more, Stay 78, Truth 145, Way 145,

Scotland as a Christian nation, holds the tradition that Andrew, an original apostle, fled to Caledonia, to escape and be beyond Roman rule, to preach and die. Hence the cross of Saint Andrew adopted for the flag. Who knows for sure? Scotland has always been religious, as far back as recorded history.

from http://www.marypages.com/StAndrew.htm. According to the New Testament, Andrew was The First Called (Protokletos) of the Apostles. Brother of Simon Peter. Not in the New Testament, but Legend has Apostle Andrew martyred in the Peloponnese at Patras, on an X shaped cross (Crux decussata) now known as ‘Saint Andrew’s Cross.’ X in Greek is spelled Chi as the first letter of Christ in Greek. This version of the martyrdom was in 62 A.D. with the Saint Andrew’s relics being taken to a Pictish settlement in Caledonia, landing at what is now Saint Andrews, with a church being built on location, and later celebrating November 30 as Saint Andrew’s Day.

Or Andrew escaped Roman jurisdiction to one of the few places beyond Roman rule, bringing Christianity to the Scots centuries before Britain and Constantine.

1159 Sir Roast McDuck hatched sometime this year. (Chief of fictional clan McDuck.) In 1189 Sir Roast, age 30, was asked by King William I of Scotland (William the Lion) to offer most of his clan’s treasure in order to fulfill King Richard I of England’s terms for a treaty, that been signed between them. The treaty said that if William offered to Richard 10.000 marks William (and hence Scotland) would be free, and so it was.

1199 – King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder. Cœur de Lion, or Richard the Lionheart. Contemporary historian Ralph of Diceto traced his family’s lineage through Edith to the Anglo-Saxon kings of England and Alfred the Great, and from there linked them to Noah and Woden. King Richard was allied with William I of Scotland against Henry 2^nd King, Henry 2^nd captured William of Scotland 13 July 1174 and Henry received William’s oath of subservience. Scotland became dependent to England. But after Richard became King 6 July 1189, Richard agreed to free King William I of Scotland from William’s oath of subservience to Richard for 10,000 marks. Once again Scotland became free. Richard appears in connection with Robin Hood in Sir Walter Scott’s novels Ivanhoe; and The Talisman, which is set during the Third Crusade.

19th-century depiction of Richard leaving the Holy Land

1320 Aberbrothock Scotland. The Declaration of Arbroath (6 April 1320), an appeal to Pope John XXII, confirmed Scotland’s status as an independent, sovereign state and asserted its right to use military action when considered unjustly attacked. It was sealed by 51 nobles and is still periodically referenced by British Israelitists. ‘In the eyes of God: cum non sit Pondus nec distinccio Judei et Greci, Scoti aut Anglici (“there is neither bias nor difference between Jew or Greek, Scot or English”) “For we fight not for glory nor for riches nor for honor, but only and alone for freedom, which no good man surrenders but with his life”.

8 Earls and 31 barons, and 1 King.

Benard de Linton and King Robert Bruce. www.thesonsofscotland.co.uk

The Scottish church had been steadfastly nationalist all through the years since 1286. Bishops Wishart and Lamberton were proven patriots. Churchmen were the literate class in medieval society, and Scottish churchmen had undertaken the task of expounding and justifying the Scottish case for independence. In 1320, meeting at Arbroath Abbey, the leaders of Scotland put their seals prepared, almost certainly, by Bernard de Linton, abbot and civil servant.

To the most Holy Father and Lord in Christ, the Lord John, by divine providence Supreme Pontiff of the Holy Roman and Universal Church, his humble and devout sons Duncan, Earl of Fife, Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, Lord of Man and of Annandale, Patrick Dunbar, Earl of March, Malise, Earl of Strathearn, Malcolm, Earl of Lennox, William, Earl of Ross, Magnus, Earl of Caithness and Orkney, and William, Earl of Sutherland; Walter, Steward of Scotland, William Soules, Butler of Scotland, James, Lord of Douglas, Roger Mowbray, David, Lord of Brechin, David Graham, Ingram Umfraville, John Menteith, guardian of the earldom of Menteith, Alexander Fraser, Gilbert Hay, Constable of Scotland, Robert Keith, Marischal of Scotland, Henry Sinclair, John Graham, David Lindsay, William Oliphant, Patrick Graham, John Fenton, William Abernethy, David Wemyss, William Mushet, Fergus of Ardrossan, Eustace Maxwell, William Ramsay, William Mowat, Alan Murray, Donald Campbell, John Cameron, Reginald Cheyne, Alexander Seton, Andrew Leslie and Alexander Straiton, and the other barons and freeholders and the whole community of the realm of Scotland send all manner of filial reverence, with devout kisses of his blessed feet.

Declaration of Arbroath Abbey.

Most Holy Father, we know and from the chronicles and books of the ancients we find that among other famous nations our own, the Scots, has been graced with widespread renown. It journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage peoples, but nowhere could it be subdued by any people, however barbarous. Thence it came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to its home in the west where it still lives today. The Britons it first drove out, the Picts it utterly destroyed, and, even though very often assailed by the Norwegians, the Danes and the English, it took possession of that home with many victories and untold efforts; and, as the histories of old time bear witness, they have held it free of all servitude ever since. In their kingdom there have reigned one hundred and thirteen kings of their own royal stock, the line unbroken by a single foreigner.

The high qualities and merits of these people, were they not otherwise manifest, shine forth clearly enough from this: that the King of kings and Lord of lords, our Lord Jesus Christ, after His Passion and Resurrection, called them, even though settled in the uttermost parts of the earth, almost the first to His most holy faith. Nor did He wish them to be confirmed in that faith by merely anyone but by the first of His Apostles – by calling, though second or third in rank – the most gentle Saint Andrew, the Blessed Peter’s brother, and desired him to keep them under his protection as their patron for ever.

The Most Holy Fathers your predecessors gave careful heed to these things and strengthened this same kingdom and people with many favors and numerous privileges, as being the special charge of the Blessed Peter’s brother. Thus our people under their protection did indeed live in freedom and peace up to the time when that mighty prince the King of the English, Edward, the father of the one who reigns today, when our kingdom had no head and our people harbored no malice or treachery and were then unused to wars or invasions, came in a guise of a friend and ally to harass them as an enemy. The deeds of cruelty, massacre, violence, pillage, arson, imprisoning prelates, burning down monasteries, robbing and killing monks and nuns and yet other outrages without number which he committed against our people, sparing neither age nor sex, religion nor rank, no-one could describe nor fully imagine unless he had seen them with his own eyes.

But from these countless evils we have been set free, by the help of Him who though He afflicts yet heals and restores, by our most tireless prince, King and lord, the lord Robert. He, that his people and his heritage might be delivered out of the hands of our enemies, bore cheerfully toil and fatigue, hunger and peril, like another Maccabaeus or Joshua. Him, too, divine providence, the succession to his right according to our laws and customs which we shall maintain to the death, and the due consent and assent of us all have made our prince and king. To him, as to the man by whom salvation has been wrought unto our people, we are bound both by his right and by his merits that our freedom may be still maintained, and by him, come what may, we mean to stand.

National Archives of Scotland – Declaration of Arbroath http://www.nas.gov.uk (April 2009)

Sir Andrew de Lesley Clan Leslie was one of the signatories.

William de Moravia, 5^th Earl of Sutherland (d. 1370) signed.

Sir William de Abernethy, lord of Saltoun signed.

The letter is the sole survivor of three created at the time. The others were a letter from the King of Scots, Robert I [the Bruce], and a letter from four Scottish bishops which all presumably made similar points. John de Cochrane 1296 mentioned John of Cochrane 1346 mentioned, to Gosiline of Cochrane 1367 had William Cochrane of that Ilk (1360-1389) received Robert II Stewart’s (See Stewart Ochiltree or Stewart Hamilton) Charter of barony of Cochrane, Kilwinning Sept 22, 1389.

Abernethy 1350 [Blair5.paf]

Hugh, Abbot of Abernethy, died about 1150 had

Orm de Abirnythy flourished 1162 had

Lawrence de Abernethy had

Sir Alexander de Abernethy of that Ilk fl. 1279 -1310 had

Maria de Abernethy 1295-1355 married 1317 Andrew Leslie Scotland had

Walter Leslie married 1366 Sep 13 Euphemia Countess of Ross 1355 – 1394 had

Mary Margaret Leslie married Donald MacDonald 1350-1449 Dingwall Castle

Alexander MacDonald 10th Earl of Ross restored after 1424, 3rd Lord of the Isles -1449 married   Elizabeth Seton had

Ross is in northern Scotland.

   Agnes MacDonald married Sir John Montgomery -1430 had

Sir Alexander 1^st Lord of Montgomery had

Alexander Master of Montgomerie had

Alexander 2^nd Lord Montgomerie had

Hugh Montgomery (1460-1545) 1^st  Earl Eglinton, 3^rd  Baron Montgomerie, Laird of Ardrossan 1484, Justice General of Northern Scotland 1526, and Council of Regency 1536, had

15M Elizabeth Montgomery married 15F John Blair 2^nd had

14F John Blair 3^rd of Blair (died 1609) married his 1st cousin once removed, 14M Grizel Semple, daughter of Robert 3^rd Lord Sempill had

13F Alexander Blair, from Blair of Blair, married 13M Elizabeth Cochrane, Paisley, Renfrewshire, had

12F Hugh Cochrane, (Dictionary of National Biography xvii, 1200) 1609 of Ferguslie, and Colonel under Gustavus Adolphus the Great King of Sweden married 12M Jean Savage, (daughter of Hugh Savage, of county Down Ireland)à

11M Grizel Cochrane, married 5 December 1671 in Ochiltree, Ayr, as 2d wife to 11F Robert Miller 1^st , had

10F Robert Miller 2^nd 10F, (christened 28 Jun 1678-1732) of St Quivox Scotland, Presbyterian minister, married Helen Meldrum 10M had

9F Robert Miller 3^rd , (b.1730 Scotland) married Jane Pickens 9M

8M Annie Miller (1762-1843) and Lt. Robert Simmons, 8F War of Independence, had

7F John Simmons married 1815 Naomi Jared 7M, had

6F Joseph Pickens Simmons married 6M Francis Virginia Masonà

5M Mary Elizabeth Simmons married Austin Choate 5F,

The declaration asked the Pope to preserve peace throughout Christendom, and admonish Edward King of England to be content with his possessions, and if the holiness should favor the English oppression of Scots, the loss of life was his charge.

The Declaration of Arbroath – 1320. The Declaration of Arbroath – 1320.

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

1607 to 1641 circa. Catholics Bar from membership in either the Parliament of Ireland or the Parliament of Great Britain from 1652; rescinded 1662–1691; renewed 1691–1829, repealed circa 1829.

1746 April 6. TROOPS Engaged – Battle of  CULLODEN the PRINCE’S ARMY First Line. MacLeods. Publications  OF THE SCOTISH HISTORY SOCIETY VOLUME XXIII, Pg 113 [97]  April 1897  SUPPLEMENT LYON IN MOURNING PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART  ITINERARY AND MAP. Ed.W. B. BLAIKIE, from Narrative of Lord MacLeod, son of the Earl of Cromarty. 

1775 Boston Massachusetts. Gun control. The English have a secret plan to disarm the colonials, by confiscating the Colonials’ personal pistols and muskets. Across the ocean from Scotland, hundreds of thousands of Scots and their descendants are scattered 2,000 miles up and down the Atlantic coast of the colonies, many having been forced by the Highland Clearances. The English occupied Boston 3 years earlier and have identified different caches of colonial arms, particularly those at Lexington and Concord. Gun control will jump start the War of Independence and be the spark for the American Revolution. Through effective spies, Patriot colonials had received word weeks before the expedition that their supplies might be at risk and had moved most of them to other locations.

1803 Sir William Hamilton Knight of the Bath, PC, FRS (12 January 1731 – 6 April 1803 [Hamilton 2Stewart 2Millar 2simmons 2Choate 2Sorensen]

died, and was a Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and vulcanologist. The fourth son of Lord Archibald Hamilton, governor of Jamaica, and Lady Jane Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn. After a short period as a Member of Parliament, he served as British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples from 1764 to 1800. He studied Mounts Vesuvius and Etna, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society and recipient of the Copley Medal in 1770 “For his Paper, entitled, An Account of a Journey to Mount Etna”.

A Cognocenti contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique (1801), James Gillray caricatured Hamilton.

1811 Audubon and Rozier mutually agreed to end their partnership at Ste. Genevieve on April 6, 1811, as Audubon decided to work at ornithology.

1940 The Birds of America, were printed between 1827 and 1838 by a Scottish publisher. The text, Ornithological Biography, came out in five volumes between 1831 and 1839. Scottish naturalist William MacGillivray collaborated

1820 Joseph Smith’s first vision near Palmyra New York. Clans Mack, Mackenzie of Inverness, Hamilton, Huntley, Smith’s mother, Lucy Mack was descended from clan Mack of Inverness Scots. Joseph was a descendant of Malcolm Canmore King of Scots.

Joseph Smith was called to be a modern-day prophet through a visitation from God the Father and Jesus Christ.

1830 Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Fayette, New York, Incorporation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the state of New York with Joseph Smith President, son of Lucy Mack, of Inverness Scotland descent, Malcolm 3^rd Canmore King of Scots. Doctrine and Covenants 21. Thou shalt be called a seer, a translator, a prophet, an apostle of Jesus Christ, an elder of the church through the will of God the Father, and the grace of your Lord Jesus Christ. Section 20. The Book of Mormon; Which contains a record of a fallen people, and the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles and to the Jews also; Which was given by inspiration, and is confirmed to others by the ministering of angels, and is declared unto the world by them—Proving to the world that the holy scriptures are true, and that God does inspire men and call them to his holy work.

Fayette New York house where the Church was organized in section 21. July 2009. The Ortons and Stouts (Tim, LaNae Choate, Rick, Brian, Todd, Amy, Luke). Stouts descendants (clans Stewart, Hunter, Lockhart, Meldrum, Cochrane).

1840 Scotland and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Orson Pratt, of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles called in 1835, arrive as missionary. [Ensign Feb. 1987]. He organized the first Scottish branch of the Church at Paisley. Elder Pratt was known as the “Gauge of Philosophy” because of his intense habits of study and scholarship. His driving missionary fervor led to a second nickname: the “St. Paul of Mormondom.

1841 Manchester, England, conference, April 6, 1841 (fifteen months, after the arrival of the first Elders in Glasgow), reported that there were about 600 members of the Church of Jesus Christ in Scotland. In 1850 the Dundee Conference was organized and in 1852 the Kilmarnock Conference, at which time the saints in Scotland numbered considerably over 3,000 souls. (Andrew Jenson, Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City: Deseret News Publishing Co., 1941, p.782).

1853 four hundred Saints who voyaged aboard the International. One of their number wrote a song for the occasion of the twenty- third anniversary of the organization of the Church (6 April 1853), which was to be sung to the tune of “Yankee Doodle.” The record of Scotsman poet John Lyon contains this song, the words written by Henry Maiben. Two of the ten verses here cited provide evidence of their discipline and harmony at sea:

On board the International

All joyful and lighthearted,

Bound Zionward, 400 Saints,

from Liverpool we started.

We’re English, Irish, Scotch and Welsh

Assembled here together

Resolved to do the will of God

What’ere the wind and weather.

HISTORY SCOTLAND – MAGAZINE

1853 Salt Lake City Utah. The corner stones of the Salt Lake Temple were laid. They were removed and reset about a decade later. Scottish masons work on the project.

1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins – in Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant (clan Grant) meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.

1995-06-29. Forty-two thousand Union soldiers faced forty thousand Confederate troops on April 6-7, 1862, at the Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing). Gen. Ulysses S. Grant (clan Grant) led the victorious Union forces against Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, (late from the Utah war of 1857, while Utah was petitioning to  become a state) who was killed in the battle. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard took Confederate command and pushed the Union forces to the Tennessee River. Gen. Don Carlos Buell’s night arrival allowed the Union to take the offensive and gain victory. One of the most brutal battles of the war, Union casualties numbered thirteen thousand and Confederate losses more than ten thousand. usstampgallery.com

1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler’s Creek – Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.

1866 – The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded. It lasts until 1956. Augustus Choate Hamlin member of the GAR from beginning, being chosen Commander of the Department of Maine in 1879. Choate was chosen Commissioner of Maine in 1881, to represent the State in the Yorktown Centennial Celebration

1893 – Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff. Woodruff who had, in 1877, previously welcomed a dozen and a half Scots, including signers of the Declaration of Independence, at St. George Temple, requesting their endowments.

Joseph Fielding Smith, 10^th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Descended from Mack of Inverness (Clans Mack, Mackenzie of Inverness, Hamilton, Huntley), Scotland and Malcolm King of Scots. Attends the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple.

1896 April 6 – The opening ceremonies of the 1896 Summer Olympics, the first modern Olympic Games, are held. 14 nations and 241 athletes who competed in 43 events. A custom of flying the flag of the Gold medal winner also invited the native country’s song. The U.S. Navy, attending in Athens, provided a band, which selected a military tune, a popular British song written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men’s social club in London. “The Anacreontic Song” (or “To Anacreon in Heaven”), set to Francis Scott Key’s poem, The Defense of Fort McHenry, and renamed “The Star-Spangled Banner”. “The Star-Spangled Banner” was recognized for official use by the Navy in 1889.

Sheet music version. The United States adopted “In God We Trust” as its national motto in 1956. Scots connection – British vice Admiral Cochrane (clan Cochrane) commanded the North American Station for the British, futile bombing of Fort McHenry.

1895 Waltzing Matilda performed by Sir Herbert Ramsay at the North Gregory Hotel in Winton, Queensland. The occasion was a banquet for the Premier of Queensland. See 2012. Lyrics by Paterson, son of a Scot. Music by MacPherson (clan MacPherson).

Waltzing Matilda score Christina Macpherson 1895. Wikipedia.

Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong

Under the shade of a coolibah tree,

And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled:

“Who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me?”

Chorus:

Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda

You’ll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me

And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled:

“You’ll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me.”

Down came a jumbuck to drink at that billabong.

Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee.

And he sang as he shoved that jumbuck in his tucker bag:

“You’ll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me.”

(Chorus)

Up rode the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred.

Down came the troopers, one, two, and three.

“Whose^{[N 1]} is that ^{[N 2]} jumbuck you’ve got in your tucker bag?

You’ll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me.”

(Chorus)

Up jumped the swagman and sprang into the billabong.

“You’ll never take me alive!” said he

And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong:

“Who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me?”

Theme song for 1959 ON the Beach film (French ending).

1898 Seventeen Scots had previously appeared in vision or dream to Wilford Woodruff. “I am going to bear my testimony to this assembly, if I never do it again in my life, that those men who laid the foundation of this American government and signed the Declaration of Independence were the best spirits the God of heaven could find on the face of the earth. They were choice spirits, not wicked men. General Washington and all the men that labored for the purpose were inspired of the Lord. Another thing I am going to say here, because I have a right to say it. Every one of those men that signed the Declaration of Independence, with General Washington, called upon me, as an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Temple at St. George, two consecutive nights, and demanded at my hands that I should go forth and attend to the ordinances of the House of God for them…. I told these brethren that it was their duty to go into the Temple and labor until they had got endowments for all of them. The did it. Would those spirits have called upon me, as an Elder in Israel to perform that work if they had not been noble spirits before God? They would not.”(Wilford Woodruff, Conference Report, April 6, 1898, p. 89-90.)

1917 On April 6, 1917, the United States declared war on Germany, due to German submarine attacks on American shipping. President Wilson (Scots clan  Wilson) previously met with Congress on April 2. Billy Mitchell, by then a lieutenant colonel, was in Spain en route to France as an observer. Mitchell immediately went to Paris and set up an office for the Aviation Section, from which Mitchell collaborated extensively with British and French air leaders such as General Hugh Trenchard, studying their strategies as well as their aircraft. Brigadier General Billy Mitchell, United States Army Air Service – his grandfather Alexander Mitchell, a Scot, was the wealthiest person in Wisconsin.

Mitchell as Assistant Chief of Air Service (in non-regulation uniform)

1917 April 6. The enchanted cottage, 1945 movie. The date is recalled for the newlywed, as the next generation goes to war in December 1941. With Dorothy McGuire. Features Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall, was an English actor, who overcame the loss of a leg in World War I, where he served in the London Scottish Regiment with fellow actors Philip St. John Basil Rathbone, Ronald Colman and Claude Rains.

The Great War – At the end of 1915, Rathbone was called up via the Derby Scheme into the British Army as a private with the London Scottish Regiment, joining a regiment that also counted in its ranks his future professional acting contemporaries Claude Rains, Herbert Marshall and Ronald Colman at different points through the conflict. After basic training with the London Scots in early 1916 Rathbone received a commission as a lieutenant in the 2/10^th Battalion of the King’s Liverpool Regiment (Liverpool Scottish), where Rathbone served as an intelligence officer and eventually attained the rank of captain.

1959 Time Magazine Cover featuring Governor George Romney Romney (clans Cameron, Currie, Ferguson, McKinlay, Muir, Wilson,)

Small Cars Foeign Invasion & Domestic Challenge American Motors George Romney

1965 – Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit. 18 years later Major Choate reviewed the legal sufficiency of a launch Pad construction procurement to keep the satellites up (maintain their orbiting position).

Early Bird Intelsat-1. Royal Observatory of Edinburgh, founded 1786, endowed 1888 by the Earl of Crawford (clan Lindsay), adding telescopes to 1957, then computer instrumentation and engineering in Australia and Hawaii, and renamed Astronomer Royal for Scotland. http://www.roe.ac.uk/roe/history.html

Communication satellites lead to cable television multi channel delivery. A new industry is created.

1970 Joseph Fielding Smith, 10^th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Descended from Mack of Inverness (Clans Mack, Mackenzie of Inverness, Hamilton, Huntley), Scotland and Malcolm King of Scots. Sustained as President of the Church in general conference.

1973 – Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.

First man made object of record to leave solar system.

1994 sometime in April. The Last of the Clan McDuck by Don Rosa, is in the series The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. The story covers 1877 to 1880 when young Scrooge, fights The Whiskervilles, earns his Number One Dime and heads for the United States on a cattle boat.

Original cover art. (fictional clan McDuck) .

1998 1^st NATIONAL TARTAN DAY. Senate – November 10, 1997)

1. Res. 155 https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/1997/11/10/senate-section/article/s12478-1?q=%257B%2522search%2522%253A%255B%2522resolution+155+tartan%2522%255D%257D&resultIndex=

Whereas April 6 has a special significance for all     Americans, and especially those Americans of Scottish     descent, because the Declaration of Arbroath, the Scottish     Declaration of Independence, was signed on April 6, 1320 and     the American Declaration of Independence was modeled on that     inspirational document;

Whereas this resolution honors the major role that Scottish     Americans played in the founding of this Nation, such as the     fact that almost half of the signers of the Declaration of      Independence were of Scottish descent, the Governors in 9 of     the original 13 States were of Scottish ancestry, and     Scottishmericans successfully helped shape this country in  its formative years and guide this Nation through its most    troubled times;

Whereas this resolution recognizes the monumental     achievements and invaluable contributions made by Scottish     Americans that have led to America’s preeminence in the     fields of science, technology, medicine, government,     politics, economics, architecture, literature, media, and     visual and performing arts;

Whereas this resolution commends the more than 200     organizations throughout the United States that honor     Scottish heritage, tradition, and culture, representing the     hundreds of thousands of Americans of Scottish descent,     residing in every State, who already have made the observance     of Tartan Day on April 6 a success; and

Whereas these numerous individuals, clans, societies,     clubs, and fraternal organizations do not let the great     contributions of the Scottish people go unnoticed: Now,     therefore, be it

Resolved, That the Senate designates April 6 of each year     as “National Tartan Day”.

Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I rise today to introduce a resolution designating April 6 of each year as “National Tartan Day,” not only to recognize the outstanding achievements and contributions made by Scottish-Americans to the United States, but to better recognize an important day in the history of all free men, April 6.

It was nearly 700 years ago, on April 6, 1320, that a group of men in Arbroath, Scotland, enumerated a long list of grievances against the English king of the day, asserted their independence in no uncertain terms, and claimed that they, the people of Scotland, had the right to choose their own government. They wrote, “We fight for liberty alone, which no good man loses but with his life * * *”

These were daring words, because the Scots who wrote those words lived in dangerous times. Violence ruled the world. Wars were fought for property, for conquest, for great tracts of land in far away countries.

But the Scots who met on that cold April day, perhaps in the rain, were not fighting for property or conquest or estates. They wrote, “Wefight for liberty alone.” This was all they fought for. Liberty. These were daring words–dangerous words–words that could bring certain death to them and their families. These Scotsmen were claiming liberty as their birthright. They were claiming they were born free men–and no king, no baron, no landlord with his troops could take this liberty from the men in Scotland.

These were words that lasted, long after kings and buildings had fallen into ruin. These were words that endured, like the mountains, hills and stones of Scotland.

These were words that reached across the years, the centuries, acrosthe ocean. Over 450 years later, a group of men stood in a building ithe British colony of Pennsylvania, ona hot summer’s day, debating and   then signing their own declaration of independence. They used the  Arbroath Declaration as the template for their own thoughts, their own words. This was natural–many of the men in that room Philadelphia, almost half, were of Scottish ancestry. The draftsman of the document was Thomas Jefferson–one of his ancestors had signed the Arbroath Declaration, all of those centuries before. The words of the Arbroath Declaration meant something to those men–they were daring words–words that would not be quiet, that would not lie quiet and still on some forgotten Scottish hill. The men in Philadelphia that day remembered those words–“We fight for liberty alone”–and the men in Philadelphia signed their own declaration of independence.

The words and thoughts of those long-ago Scottish patriots live on in America. Liberty, true liberty, has been good to their descendants in America. Scottish-Americans have helped build this nation since the beginning. Three-fourths of all American presidents can trace their roots to Scotland. The contributions of Scottish-Americans are innumerable: Some of the great have included Neil Armstrong, Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Alva Edison, William Faulkner, Malcolm Forbes, Billy Graham, Alexander Hamilton, Washington Irving, John Paul Jones, John Marshall, Andrew Mellon, Samuel F.B. Morse, James Naismith, Edgar Allen Poe, Gilbert Stuart, Elizabeth Taylor, to name only a few.

But beyond all of the accomplishments of Scottish-Americans, beyond all the wonderful inventions like the telegraph and telephone and electric light, all the works of literature, all the great businesses and charitable organizations founded by Scottish-Americans, beyond all of those accomplishments, are the words. “We fight for liberty alone *

* * We fight for liberty alone, which no good man loses but with his life.”

Those are haunting words. Those are words that haunted the men who passed them down for generations, wherever men dreamed of being free, words that haunted the men who rewrote them in Philadelphia on that hot, steamy day, words that have haunted generations of Americans. Words that have lived inside men, unspoken, as they marched to Yorktown, as they lined up quietly behind the cotton bales in New Orleans, marched to Mexico, sailed to Cuba and the Philippines, and Europe and the Pacific and Korea and the Persian Gulf. These are words that live inside all of us Americans, and especially inside our veterans: “We fight for liberty alone, which no good man loses but with his life.” And how many have lost their lives for our freedom.

It is appropriate that we honor April 6 as National Tartan Day. The Scottish clansmen who met on that cold day and declared their independence were our clansmen, no matter what nation we hail from. They were our brothers.

Mr. President, I ask all my colleagues to support this resolution, so that we may never forget, so that the world, in some small way, may never forget, the beginnings of freedom in far-away, long-ago Arbroath.

2012 Music. Tune Scotland the Brave for Praise to the Man. Performed by the Combined Choir from the Provo Missionary Training Center.

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2012 Inaugural Waltzing Matilda Day, Australia. Anniversary of First performance in 1895. Andrew Barton ‘Banjo’ Paterson, (17 Feb. 1864- 5 Feb. 1941) wrote Waltzing Matilda, Australia’s unofficial national anthem in 1895. Andrew Barton Paterson was born at the property “Narrambla”, near Orange, New South Wales, the eldest son of Andrew Bogle Paterson, a Scottish immigrant from Lanarkshire, and Australian-born Rose Isabella Barton

Banjo Paterson. Waltzing Matilda sheet music published in 1903. Written at Dagworth Station, a sheep and cattle station near Winton in Central West Queensland owned by the Macpherson family. The words were written to a tune played on a zither or autoharp by 31‑year‑old Christina Macpherson. (clan MacPherson) Macpherson had heard the tune “The Craigielee March” played by a military band while attending the Warrnambool steeplechase horse racing in Victoria in April 1894, and played it back by ear at Dagworth. The march itself was based on the Scottish Celtic folk tune “Thou Bonnie Wood of Craigielea”,^[8] written by Robert Tannahill and first published in 1806, with James Barr (clan Barr) composing the music in 1818.^[10] In the early 1890s it was arranged as the “The Craigielee” march music for brass band by Thomas Bulch.

2013 Kirkin o’ the Tartan, Church of our Saviour, 59 Park Avenue (between 37^th and 38^th Street), 10am -12:30 pm. Tartan Day Parade, 2PM on 6^th Avenue, and the formation areas are 44^th and 45^th Streets between 5^th and 6^th Avenue.

Donald John Trump, Sr, (clans MacQueen, Macaulay, MacLeod, of Aberdeenshire and Outer Hebrides). Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Trump Enterprises New York, NY. Honorary Chairmen attends the Kirkin O’ the Tartan