December 9 1165 Malcolm IV of Scotland died without issue.

David I (left) the Saint, (King ‘the Maiden’ of Scots from 23 April 1124 to 24 May 1153) with his grandson, young Malcolm IV (right) who died 9 December 1165.

1165 David of Scotland, 9th Earl of Huntingdon, Heir of Scotland as heir presumptive 9 December 1165–1193. After the 3rd crusade, fighting under the banner of Richard 1st King and Coeur de Leon, David, returning from the Holy Land, was shipwrecked on the Egypt coast, captured and as with his rank unknown, was sold as a slave to a Venetian, and taken to Constantinople. There he was recognized by English merchants, redeemed and sent home. Anderson Scots history v.2/p.27. Robin Hood and Talisman.

David succeeded to the title of Earl of Doncaster on 12 June 1152, to the title of Earl of Carlisle on 12 June 1152, to the title of 9th Earl of Huntingdon on 12 June 1152, to the title of Earl of Northumberland on 12 June 1152, to the title of Earl of Garioch circa 1180, to the title of Earl of Lennox in 1205, to the title of Earl of Cambridge in 1205.2 In 1215/16 David was deprived of all of his English honours, but was restored to them on 13 March 1218.3

1545 – sometime in December- John Knox. [Minister] Wishart was seized on [Cardinal] Beaton’s orders by Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Earl of Bothwell, and taken to the Castle of St Andrews. [Minister] Knox was present on the night of Wishart’s arrest and was prepared to follow him into captivity, but Wishart persuaded him against this course saying, “Nay, return to your bairns [children] and God bless you. One is sufficient for a sacrifice.” Wishart was subsequently prosecuted by Beaton’s Public Accuser of Heretics, John Lauder.

Wishart. Crest: A demi eagle with wings expanded Proper. Motto: MERCY IS MY DESIRE

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1564 Sinking of the Falcon Rover. Fictional Malcolm “Matey” McDuck. [fictional clan McDuck].

In 1563 Malcolm became the first mate of the frigate HMS “Falcon Rover”. Malcolm served under Captain Loyal Hawk. The ship raided Spanish Caribbean Sea between 1563 and 1564. Malcolm and boatswain Pintail Duck, who would later be reincarnated into his descendant Donald Duck, buried potatoes under the employment of Captain Loyal Hawk and for the Queen of England.

Pintail Duck.

Malcolm ‘Matey’ McDuck is said to have lost his life on December 9, 1564 when the Spanish fleet sunk the “Falcon Rover” along with its entire crew, though this is not true. In 1579, Malcomb commanded the new Fort Drakeborough, an establishment that in 1818 was taken over by Cornelius Coot and later renamed Fort Duckburg. Fictional clan McDuck.

1568 The cause of plague, Skene gives the stock recital of blazing stars, south-winds, corrupt standing waters, and the like, dead carrion unburied,

Skene’s Treatis on the Plague 1568. Quhaiby corrupt be pest may be knawin. Thair is mony notis quhilkis schawis ane man infectit be pest First gif the exteriour parties of the bodie be cauld, and the interiour parties of the bodie vehement hait. As gif the hoill bodie be heavie with oft scharpe punctiounis, stinkand sweating, tyritnes of bodie, ganting of mowthe detestable brathe with   greit difficultie, at sumtyme vehement fever rather on. *** A History of Epidemics in Britain from A.D. 664 to the Extinction of Plague Charles Creighton, M.A. M.D. Demonstrator of Anatomy University of Cambridge. 1891

1641- sometime in December- The Long Parliament passes the Bishops Exclusion Act.

1745 Manchester. A violent mob was in possession of the town, and opposed the quartermasters of the [Young Pretender’s] Chevalier’s army. Two battalions and two squadrons were detached to support the quartermasters, by whom the mob was dispersed. L.2500 was demanded from the town, in consequence of this riot. [TG80-234]

Route of the Highland army with Manchester south of Wigan and North of Congerdon and Newcastle.

1829 Scots Roman Type, prepared in Glasgow Scotland, and shipped to a foundry in Albany New York, then delivered to the E. B. Grandin Printing company in Palmyra New York, according to the Crandall Gutenberg Printing Museum in Provo Utah. The Scots Roman type is the font used to print the first edition of the Book of Mormon. The contract with E. B. Grandin’s print shop to print the book was signed on Tuesday 25 Aug 1829, and the completed book was on sale by Friday 26 March 1830. Typesetter John H. Gilbert selects type and inserts commas, periods, and other punctuation as Gilbert reads Oliver Cowdery’s hand written copy. One form signarture of 16 pages, in quantities of 5,000 copies will be printed, 37 signatures per 6 day, 11 hour per day week. Meridian Magazine (14 Apr 2005). http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2005/printing.html

15th   form of 16 pages printed. Somewhere in the book named for Alma.

Palmyra Pageant.

1835 Cleland Kinloch Simmons (Cleland is a small village near Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.) of Charleston, South Carolina, with 15 liberty lovers, sign a resolution ‘We hereby declare that we have left every endearment at our respective places of abode in the United States of America to maintain and defend our brethren at the peril of our lives, liberties and fortunes.’ In the Alamo, San Antonio, Texas Republic, during the 13 day siege, Simmons, a member of the dismounted cavalry, joined volunteers in helping Colonel Davey Crockett to defend the palisade closing the gap in the fortress walls on the south side. The News and Courier August 2, 1964. Simmons’ name is on the memorial in front of the Alamo.

 

1849 Valley of the Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, Wasatch Mountain Range. Richard Ballantyne was a Scottish convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As a young man in Earlston, Scotland, Ballantyne was elected “Ruling Elder” of the Relief Presbyterian Church. One of his first tasks was to organize a Sunday School in the farming hamlet where neglected boys and girls ran wildly in the streets on Sundays. He later recalled with satisfaction his success in teaching the youngsters and improving their lives.

After arriving in Salt Lake City in 1848, his bishop, John Murdock, gave him permission to start a Sunday School. From this beginning December 9, 1849, the Sunday School has grown to teach millions.

1888 John Forbes-Sempill 18th   Lord Sempill and 9th Baronet of Craigievar. After service in the Sudan, he transferred to the Army Service Corps in 1894, then transferred into the Black Watch in 1894. Commissariat and Transport Department was renamed the Commissariat and Transport Staff and the Army Service Corps was renamed the Commissariat and Transport Corps. Finally, in December 1888, these two bodies amalgamated with the War Department Fleet to form a new Army Service Corps. He served with the Lovat Scouts and then the Black Watch in the South African War.

Cap badge of the Lovat Scouts formed during the Second Boer War as a Scottish Highland yeomanry regiment of the British Army and is the first known military unit to wear a ghillie suit. In 1916, these scouts formally became the British Army’s first sniper unit, then known as sharpshooters. Formed in January 1900 for service in the Second Boer War by Simon Joseph Fraser, 14th Lord Lovat, father of the World War II commando, Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, and uncle of David Stirling, the creator of the Special Air Service. The unit was commanded by an American, Major Frederick Russell Burnham, the British Army Chief of Scouts under Lord Roberts, who fittingly described Lovat Scouts as “half wolf and half jackrabbit. Major Burnham was selected for the Victoria Cross but declined rather than give up his American citizenship. Burnham would later go on to become a founder of the Boy Scouts.” A ghillie suit, wookie suit, yowie suit, or camo tent is a type of camouflage clothing designed to resemble heavy foliage.

Stirling Motto: GANG FORWARD. Chief: Francis John Stirling of Cader Crest: Issuing out of an antique coronet Or a hart’s head couped Azure.

1942 canoes Catfish and Crayfish had paddled a further 22 miles (35 km) in six hours December 9. HMS Tuna (N94) left from Holy Loch in Scotland.

Bay of Biscay and Bordeaux. Operation Frankton, the December 1942 raid by canoe-borne British commandos on shipping in Bay of Biscay port of Bordeaux Harbour.

2004 Samuel Cruz Choate born. (clans Campbell, Drummond, Fraser, Gordon, Graham, Kennedy, Montgomery, Morton, Murray, Ralston, Rainbolt, Ross)

2011   Kai Madison Trump sits on her father Donald Trump Jr.’s shoulders at.Z100’s Jingle Ball 2011, presented by Aeropostale Madison Square Garden on December 9, 2011 in New York City. (clan MacLeod, Tong Scotland.)

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