June 29 –  The Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, or the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, is a liturgical feast in honour of the martyrdom in Rome of the apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul, which is observed on 29 June. Honored by Scots thru the 16th century.

836 sometime this year. Kenneth Mac Alpin, succeeded to throne of Scots. By 839 Kenneth claims Pict throne after death of Uven, in right of Kenneth’s grand mother, Urgusia. Tytler’s Britannica 9.

1266 Treaty of Perth or “Agreement between Magnus IV and Alexander III, Terms of sovereignty over the Western Isles Hebrides, the Isle of Man, and the Northern Isles agreed between  Norway and  Scotland.

1818 map with Hebrides and Northern Isles. The island of Sodor has been popularized in the 21st century in the Thomas railroad children’s books. Sodor is a real place.  www.stampboards.com

1547 – 21 French galleys approached St Andrews under the command of Leone Strozzi, prior of Capua. The French besieged the castle and forced the surrender of the garrison on 31 July. The Protestant nobles and others, including Knox, were taken prisoner and forced to row in the French galleys.

1559 Knox preached his first sermon at St. Giles. YYMA 9

Middle of square is the location of St Giles’ within central Edinburgh. Royal Mile, Edinburgh. St Giles’ was only a cathedral in its formal sense (i.e. the seat of a bishop) for two periods during the 17th century (1635–1638 and 1661–1689), when episcopalianism, backed by the Crown, briefly gained ascendancy within the Kirk (see Bishops’ Wars). In the mediaeval period, prior to the Reformation, Edinburgh had no cathedral as the royal burgh was part of the Diocese of St Andrews, under the Bishop of St Andrews whose episcopal seat was St Andrew’s Cathedral.

1613 – The Globe Theatre (1599-1613) in London, England burns to the ground. Production of Macbeth (Scots king 11th century).

1644 – Charles I Stewart King of England and Scots defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.

1786 – Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.

Glengarry Highland games on Canada.

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1862 James Bowman Lindsay died (8 September 1799 – 29 June 1862) was a Scottish inventor of incandescent light bulb, submarine telegraphy and arc welding. and author. Born in Cotton of West Hills, Carmyllie near Arbroath in Angus, Scotland. The main settlements in the parish are Redford, Greystone and Milton of Carmyllie.In July 1835, Lindsay demonstrated a constant electric lamp at a public meeting in Dundee, Scotland. He stated that he could “read a book at a distance of one and a half feet”

1914 The bodies of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, nephew of Emperor Franz Josef and heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife Sophie, await disposal after being assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia, the previous day, which was the couple’s wedding anniversary. By August, Britain, with Scotland, was at war with Austria-Hungary and Germany. Of the Scots who marched away, 26.4% did not come home: the percentage for the rest of the UK and Ireland was 11.8% and for France 16.8%.

1938 June 29 Richard Allen Hunter born, 70, Almaden 1st Ward, San Jose California South Stake, called as president of the Oakland California Temple, succeeding President Darwin B. Christenson. President Hunter’s wife, Nan Greene Hunter, will serve as temple matron. President Hunter, a stake president, has served as president of the New Zealand Auckland Mission, mission president’s counselor, stake president’s counselor, Member of the High Council and bishop. A retired attorney, he was born in Los Angeles, Calif., to Howard W. and Clara May Jeffs Hunter. Sister Hunter, a ward Sunday School teacher and on a regional public affairs committee member, served with her husband as he presided over the New Zealand Auckland Mission, and has been a counselor in a ward Relief Society presidency, ward Primary president, ward Young Women president and counselor, and seminary teacher. She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Nathanael Sullivan and Florence Williams Greene. The Hunters are from Paisley Renfrewshire Scotland. Church News July 12, 2008.

Richard A. and Nan Hunter

1940 Between June 29 and Aug. 2, the British produced 322 new Hurricane and Spitfire fighters, more than replacing those lost in France and offsetting losses in early engagements in July. The German Luftwaffe was led by Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, once a dashing World War I ace who succeeded the “Red Baron,” Manfred von Richtofen, in command of the Flying Circus, but who was now (1940) a swaggering, bloated caricature of himself. Goering and the Luftwaffe boasted that it would take four days to defeat Fighter Command in southern England and four weeks to finish off the RAF and the British aircraft industry. http://airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2015/July%202015/Their-Finest-Hour.aspx

1945 Donald’s Crime is a 1945 American animated short by Walt Disney released by RKO. The cartoon, which parodies film noir crime dramas popular at the time, follows Donald Duck (fictional clan McDuck) as he struggles with guilt after stealing $1.25 from his nephews.

Crime poster.

 

2015 June 29, after Trump’s Presidential campaign announcement speech, Comcast’s NBC press release, “Due to the recent derogatory statements by Donald Trump regarding immigrants, NBCUniversal is ending its business relationship with Mr. Trump”. Wikipedia. Trump sued Comcast.

Donald John Trump, Sr. (clans MacQueen, Macaulay, MacLeod, of Aberdeenshire and Outer Hebrides), (born June 14, 1946). His mother was Mary Anne MacLeod, (born May 10, 1912,– died August 7, 2000), who was married in 1936. Mary Anne was born at Tong, Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis, off the coast of Scotland, United Kingdom.

 

2016 Humor. A fictional fallout from BREXIT, the UK Referendum to leave the EU of June 23rd, is the rumor that a bigger disaster is Harry Potter was flunking out and leaving Hogwarts. Like Switzerland, which never joined the EU, Potter is on his own to practice magic and wizardry without Hogwarts. The fear is this will be the cause of stampede of other students abandoning the School, which if it was so great, why would anyone want to leave? Drafty, remote, smokey (from all those candles), needing updating in plumbing and power. If it were a century before, it might have been Peter Rabbit leaving Mister MacGregor’s garden, and destroying a child’s fairy tale. Or, two centuries earlier, as the Little Mermaid, leaves the water, to take up water skiing. Upsetting so many assumptions.

 

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