February 20 – 1364 Margaret Drummond Inchmurdach, Fife married on 20 February 1364 David II (Dàibhidh Bruis), no children.

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1426 Christian 1 King of Norway born. In 1468 Christian 1st pledged Shetland to pay the dowry of his daughter Margaret, betrothed to James III of Scotland. As the money was never paid, the connection with the crown of Scotland has become perpetual. In 1470 William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness ceded his title to James III and the following year the Northern Isles were directly annexed to Scotland

 Christian I (reign King of Norway from 2 August 1450– 21 May 1481, King of Denmark from 1446, King of Sweden 1457-1464) born 20 February 1426, Oldenburg eldest son of Dietrich, Count of Oldenburg and Helvig of Schauenburg.

1437 Sir Robert Graham assassin of James I Stewart King Scots in Perth, abbey of Black Friars (TG19-270).

James I assassinated – 1437. After making powerful enemies James I is attacked by a group of assassins while at Friars Preachers Monastery in Perth. After a desperate attempt to escape he is stabbed to death in a sewer. Video: A history of Scotland: Language is Power.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/the_stewarts/james_i_assassinated/

1472 Orkney and Shetland islands annexed from Norway, after the king of Norway defaults on a dowry payment. BBC

Okrney has Scapa flow harbor, Naval base used during World Wars One and Two.

 Skara Brae, Orkney. In 1850, a strong storm hit the Orkney Islands, stripping away sand dunes and uncovering the remains of the Skara Brae settlement. Later excavations would reveal a complex of stone houses linked by passageways that dates to between 3200 and 2500 B.C. It’s considered the best preserved Neolithic village. travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/scotland-photos/#/skara-brae-orkney

1599 never happened in Scotland. Dating its years from the birth of Jesus Christ, so that ‘’ every nation, kindred, every ear shall hear, every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess, Jesus Christ is Lord,’’ thru computer software applications and aviation, the Christian calendar has been adopted world wide for the Musselmen of Islam, the Buddhist, Confucian, Hindu, nativist, Jew, agnostic, or atheist (Isaiah 45:23, 1 Kings 19:18, Philippians 2:11, Romans 14:11, confirmed in modern times Mosiah 16:1, 27:31, Doctrine and Covenants 76:110, 88:104.)

 An 1883 map of the world divided into colors representing “Christians, Buddhists, Hindoos, Mohammedans, Fetichists”.

1652 – Sometime in February. Boston in February 1652 “John & Sara” The ship’s passenger list included 261 Scots who had been taken prisoner by the British (Oliver Cromwell’s forces) at the Battle of Worcester on September 3, 1651. One of the Scots on the passenger list was John Coehon (Colquhoun)

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and this man appears in Scituate town records as John Cowin/Cowen. The Scottish prisoners were marched from Boston to Lynn, Massachusetts, to work for the owners of the Lynn Iron Works as indentured servants for a certain number of years. Most were resold to various planters and mill owners throughout the Colonies. After the period of indenture, these Scots became free men, and stayed.

1751 did not occur in England, Ireland, British North America, and British colonies, as 1751 only had 282 days due to the Calendar Act of 1750. But 1751 did occur in Scotland, as 1751 had 365 days. The oldest known lunar calendar was found in Scotland; it dates back thousands of years. The Warren Field site was first discovered as unusual crop marks spotted from the air by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS).

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-07-scotland-lunar-calendar-stone-age-rethink.html#jCp

1806 – Lachlan McIntosh, died, Raits, Badenoch Scottish-born American military and political leader (b. 1725)

 Lachlan McIntosh, On January 7, 1776, McIntosh was commissioned as a colonel in the Georgia Militia. He raised the 1st Georgia Regiment of the Georgia Line.

1830 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 signature of 16 pages, in quantities of 5,000 copies will be printed, 37 signatures, a form per 6 day, 11 hour per day week. Meridian Magazine (14 Apr 2005). http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2005/printing.html

29th       form of 16 pages printed. Somewhere in 3 Nephi

1857 sometime. Upon his return home from the army in 1857, James Dunn, age 20, of Kirkintilloch, Dumbartonshire, firmly resolved “to live up to my religious duties as a Latter-day Saint, and second, to try and get means to take me to Utah, as I read in the papers that the government of the United States was organizing an army to go to Utah. . . . I made up my mind to be with the Saints to share their sorrow and privations that seemed to be before them all the time.” HISTORY SCOTLAND – MAGAZINE

1949 Ivana Zelníčková born Gottwaldov, Moravia, Czechoslovakia. Married to Donald John Trump, Senior (clans MacLeod, McSwane, Smith).

 Donald and Ivana Trump in happier days.

1951 James Gordon Brown (b 1951) (Prime Minister) born Giffnock, Renfrewshire, Scotland.[10][11] His father was John Ebenezer Brown, a minister of the Church of Scotland. James was raised in the manse (a Presbyterian minister’s home) in Kirkcaldy — the largest town in Fife, Scotland across the Firth of Forth from Edinburgh. And attended the University of Edinburgh.

http://www.edwardjdavies.info/PMs/brown.htm

1962 John Herschel Glenn Jr. orbited the Earth in Friendship 7 on February 20, 1962. Glenn received a Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978. He was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1990. John Herschel Glenn Jr. is descended from the Glenn–Macintosh clan of Scotland. In 1963 he received a letter from a young girl in Sheffield, England, named Anne Glenn. The letter, congratulating him on his orbit around the Earth, enclosed a family tree showing that Anne’s father, George Arthur Thomas Glenn, and John Glenn were cousins. The news made it into the South Yorkshire Times, and a viewed copy retained by Anne’s younger sister.

 Mercury-Atlas 6 Mission insignia

Project Mercury Issue of 1962 Released an hour after Glenn’s flight landed.

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/john-glenn-jr#ixzz1phnTnBT1

 Quincy Jones presents platinum copies of “Fly Me to the Moon” (from It Might as Well Be Swing) to Senator John Glenn (clan Jardine and Glen) and Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong (d. 25 Aug 2012 (clan Armstrong).

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Neil Armstrong, astronaut.

Armstrong Motto: INVICTUS MANEO.
[from Latin: “I remain unvanquished”].Seat: Gilnockie Tower, Dumfries and Galloway

 Crest: An arm from the shoulder, armed Proper.

 HOLLOWS TOWER
(SOMETIMES CALLED
GILNOCKIE TOWER) FROM A WATER-COLOUR SKETCH PAINTED BY JAMES ORROCK, R.I. The Border Country 1906.

2002 Dale Eunson, 97; died. Scots grandparents. Prolific Writer of Stories, Scripts Focused on Frontier. Los Angles Times obituary.

 Robert String Eunson Junior (born 1856) and son Dale Eunson (born August 15, 1904), during Eunson’s term as Clark County Sheriff, 1908-1910. http://www.thecabincountess.com/2013/03/the-day-they-gave-babies-away.html

At 97, Eunson died Feb. 20 at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills of causes associated with aging. A child of the frontier, Eunson mined his rich background for many of his best-loved works. They included the true story of his father, Robbie, who as a 12-year-old newly orphaned son of Scottish immigrants trudged through the Wisconsin snows on Christmas Eve of 1868 to find good homes for his five younger siblings. The tale became a Christmas magazine story, a children’s novel, a motion picture, a television movie and a radio narrative. Dale wrote for Cosmopolitan magazine, becoming associate editor in 1933. Mr. Eunson married another writer, Katherine Albert, in 1931 and collaborated with her on Broadway plays in the 1940’s; she died in 1970. They also wrote the 1950’s movie scripts ”On the Loose,” (1951 the Restless Age) starring their daughter, Joan Evans;

and ”The Star,” featuring Bette Davis.

 1952 poster The Star.

Among the couple’s television scripts were several episodes of ”Leave It to Beaver”

 and ”Little House on the Prairie.” New York Times.

 

2016 Brexit . Prime Minister David Cameron (clan Cameron) selects Thursday 23 June 2016 for the referendum. The European Union Referendum Act 2015 (c. 36) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to make provision for the holding of a referendum in the United Kingdom and Gibraltar no later than 31 December 2017 on whether the United Kingdom should remain a member of the European Union (EU) received royal assent 17 December 2015. Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, or Brexit (a portmanteau of “British” and “exit” or “Britain” and “exit’’)