June 5 754 Saint Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Bishop, Apostle of Germany, Martyr. Scots honored these Masses and Saints until the 16^th century.

1568 Lamoral, 4^th Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavere (November 18, 1522 – June 5, 1568) was a general and statesman in Flanders just before the start of the Eighty Years’ War, whose execution helped spark the national uprising against Spain, that led to free Netherlands. Paternally, a branch of the Egmonts ruled the sovereign duchy of Guelders until 1538. Lamoral was born in La Hamaide near Ellezelles. His father was John IV of Egmont, knight in the Order of the Golden Fleece.

Lamoral 4^th Count of Egmont (1522-1568). John II, Lord of Egmond (1385-1451) had 2 sons, the first son was Arnold of Egmond and Duke of Guelders (1410-1473) was father to Mary of Guelders (c. 1431–1463), married 3 July 1449 to James II Stewart, King of Scots. She is ancestress to all Scots royal line since, and the English since 1603.

John II’s Second son was William IV, Count of Egmond (1412-1483) who had John III first Count of Egmont (1438-1516) (1^st Cousin to Mary of Guelders, Queen of Scots), John III had a son, John IV Second Count of Egmont (1499–1528) (2^nd Cousin to James 3^rd King of Scots) John IV’s son was Lamoraal (1522–1568), fourth Count of Egmont, making him 3^rd cousin to James 4^th King of Scots.

John III 1^st Count of Egmont’s daughter Walburga of Egmont (1490–1529), first wife of William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, father of William of Orange (William I, Prince of Orange (24 April 1533 – 10 July 1584), also widely known as William the Silent), great grand father of William III, Prince of Orange and King of England and Ireland (1650-1702), who also reigned styled as William and Mary in England and William 2^nd in Scotland (the 1^st William being William the Lion). William and Mary College in Williamsburg Virginia is named after this couple.

1592 An Act of the Scottish Parliament came into force “concerning the Office of Lyoun King of Armes and his brether Heraldis” creating the best regulated system of armorial bearings in Europe. Sir David Lindsay of the Mount (Secundus) (1591–1621) officeholder. Wikipedia.

1686 Andrew Millar IV (uncle and brother of Robert 1^st) died in January. His will is in the Glasgow Testaments under date of 5 June 1686. Minister of Neiston. Husband to Margaretta Montgomerie. Brother of Robert Millar Minister of Ochiltree. Son of Andrew Millar (3^rd) Minister of Girvan and Geilles Hunter. Railroad map of Ayr with Girvan, on the rail line on the coast of the Firth of Clyde north of Wigtown, south of Ayr and Maybole. Paisley in Renfrew is in the northeast corner of this map.

“Andrew Millar, born about 1630, son of Andrew M., min. of Girvan ; educated at Irvine School and Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1650); adm. to Dailly about 1660; deprived by Act of Parliament 11^th June, and Decreet of Privy Council 1^st Oct. 1662; still mentioned as min. 17^th Dec. 1663. He was fined 2000 merks for baptizing the child of a neighbouring min. On 3rd Sept. 1672, he was adm. here as an “indulged” min. The Privy Council cancelled his indulgence 6th Oct. 1684, because he did not read the Proclamation regarding the deliverance of the King and the Duke of York from the Rye House plot; he was imprisoned in the Edinburgh Tolbooth and in Blackness Castle for refusing to bind himself not to preach, but was liberated on 12^th March 1685. He died January 1686. He married Margaretta (alive 7^th March 1693), daughter of John Montgomerie of Cockelbie, and had issue — Katherine (married 1696, Robert Graham of Kirkhill) ; Andrew, died young ; Robert, minister of Paisley ; Margaret (married Aird of Milton).”

SOURCE: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. III, page 158. /www.geni.com/people/Andrew-Millar

1719 War of the Quadruple Alliance. On 5 June, British government forces composed of both English and Scottish soldiers under General Joseph Wightman came from Inverness to block their march. They consisted of 850 infantry, 120 dragoons and 4 mortar batteries. Jacobite army of 150 men from Clan Cameron of Lochiel, Robert Roy MacGregor, of Clan MacGregor with 40 men, 150 men from Clan Murray under Lord George Murray, son of the chief, positioned on the hill on the south bank of the river. The Chief of Clan Keith, George Keith, 10^th Earl Marischal, and a rebel Brigadier Campbell

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were with Mackenzie of Seaforth on the left. 16^th century map with the clans of the western highlands, showing generally the locations of Mackenzie (northwest corner of map), Cameron around Ft William on Loch Linnhe (in the middle), Campbell and Murray toward the south of the highlands, with Murray on Lake Earn and Lake Tay (flowing east to the River Tay and Firth of Tay). The red and yellow is the ‘Highland Line’ the division between Highlands and Lowlands. Red underlined clans joined with Montrose. Black underlined Clans actively opposed Montrose (Campbell, Mackenzie and Murray). No line, clan avoided contest (Cameron)

The British Army included three independent companies from the Clan Fraser, Clan Ross and the Clan Sutherland.

• Keith of Dunnottarin Kincardine 1109 2Stewart2Campbell 2Montgomery 2Blair 2Cochrane 2Miller 2Simmons 2Choate zoe Blair5.  16^th century clans showing Mackenzie, Murray, Frazer, and Ross. Also shown is Inverness, Ft Augustus, Macintosh clan, Grant clan, River Spey, Moray Firth, Dornoch Firth, Loch Broom, Loch Ness (tourist trap for monster watchers), Dingwall (the movie Brave has the Lord Dingwall as a character)

1723 Adam Smith born Edinburgh. Smith studied at the University of Glasgow and at Balliol College, Oxford. Author of Wealth of Nations, printed by A. Millar, London by the Strand. The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith etc. London Printed for A. Millar in the Strand. Etc. MDCCLIX. (clans Stewart, Lockhart and Hunter)

1854 In June of 1854, William A. McMaster wrote, “Sister [Isabella] Bar from Glasgow Scotland died of cholera about 8 o’clock a.m. She was very useful when she was well among the sick when on sea and on this river. . . . [She] was buried about 3 o’clock in the morning under the light of the moon on the bank of the river and another sister was also buried the same day.”

1892 John Menzies MacFarlane (b 11 oct 1833 Sterling, Sterlingshire, Scotland – d 5 jun 1892 St. George, Washington, Utah) 2RFV-850, (Menzies is prounounced Meen-gus) John wrote the words to the only Mormon carol, “Far Far Away on Judea’s Plains,” as well as the music for “Dearest Children, God is Near You.” Came to Salt Lake in 1856 with the A. O. Smoot Co .HISTORY SCOTLAND – MAGAZINE

Macfarlane clan. Crest: A demi-savage brandishing in his dexter hand a broad sword Proper and pointing with his sinister to an Imperial Crown Or standing by him on the Wreath. Motto: THIS I’LL DEFEND. Badge: cranberry or cloudberry.

1899 Oxford graduation. Professor Henry Walton Jones, Sr. (fictionally born December 12, 1872 died 1951) is a fictional Scottish professor of medieval literature. Senior received his fictional degree from the University of Oxford on June 5, 1899.

According to his fictional son, Junior, Senior is “the one the students hope they don’t get”. His son’s Dean’s office is on occasion, the dining hall for the Yale Law School in New Haven, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008).

1944 the south coast of England also saw the construction and assembly of the ‘Mulberry’ harbour project of two artificial harbours and five ‘Gooseberry’ breakwaters including 400 ‘Mulberry’ units totalling 1.5 million tons and including: (1) up to 6,000-ton ‘Phoenix’ concrete breakwaters; (2) 160 tugs for towing; and (3) 59 old merchantmen and warships to be sunk as blockships for the ‘Gooseberries’. The Isle of Wight was the terminal for the PLUTO project; specially equipped vessels which laid a Pipeline Under The Ocean to carry petroleum fuel across the English Channel to France. There was in fact more than one pipeline. The assault forces sailed from their ports of departure on the 5th to a position off the Isle of Wight, and then headed south through swept channels down ‘The Spout’ towards Normandy to land on the 6th. By the end of June nearly 660,000 men had been carried from Britain to France with their equipment and supplies. www.naval-history.net

1963 Humor. Irma La Douce movie released. Parisian Moustache explains a perfect tourist from England as being a Lordship from Oxford and Cold Stream Guards (Scots unit). Fictional Nestor Patout dresses as the fictional Lord X, from Oxford and ‘Cold Cream Guards.’ You have to listen fast to catch the joke, but it is funny.  Shirley MacLean Beaty (born April 24, 1934, Richmond Virginia, later Arlington Thomas Jefferson Junior High School) Her maternal ancestors (Maclean) were from Nova Scotia, New Scotland. The clan Maclean ancestral home is the Duant Castle on the Isle of Mull, Scotland.

1994 Jun 5 Howard W. Hunter (clan Hunter) became 14^th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Daughter in law, Nan Greene Hunter 1938 wrote ‘Father This Hour Has Been One of Joy 154.’ Born Nan Greene in Salt Lake City, Utah, she married Richard Allen Hunter in the Salt Lake Temple on December 8, 1961. Richard was a son of Howard W. Hunter who would later serve as president of the Church. Howard son of John William Hunter 1879-1906, son of John Hunter 8 Jul 1850 Paisley Renfrewshire Scotland -10 aug 1941 San Francisco, son of John Hunter 27 aug 1825 Paisley Scotland – 30 aug 1903 Ogden Utah (married to Margaret Carse 27 july 1823 Glasgow Lanark, Scotland – 3 jul 1909 Ogden Utah), son of John Hunter 29 dec 1897-4 jan 1888 Paisley, son of Robert Hunter 12 aug 1770-25 apr 1862 Paisley, Robert 7 jul 1744,John 20 apr 1716, John 1667, John Hunter 1644 And Paisley families Alexander, Arthur, Brock, Clark, Gemle, Hogsyeard, Jack, King, McKennan, Murchie, Simpson.   Families from Kilmarnock Ayr Scotland, Dickie, Findlay, John Miller 1648 m 1672, Agnes Miller b 1678, Thomson, Wight, President Howard W. Hunter: The Lord’s “Good and Faithful Servant” Ensign Apr 1995. When Gretchen Choate was choir director in Falls Church Ward, Gretchen chose Hymn 154 as the theme song for the choir, and sung at the end of every choir practice, to make sure ‘we didn’t practice more than an hour.’

He remembered the 150^th anniversary of the martyrdom of prophets and brothers Joseph Jr. and Hyrum Smith.

2002 STS-111 Space Shuttle Endeavour launched mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Insignia.

(L-R): Philippe Perrin, Paul S. Lockhart, Kenneth D. Cockrell, Franklin R. Chang-Diaz. Colonel Paul Scott “Paco” Lockhart (born April 28, 1956) is a former American astronaut and a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions. He is also a distinguished graduate of both ROTC and the Air Force Squadron Officer School.

2004 Ronald Wilson Reagan (Scottish) February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) died. 40^th President 1981-89: His great grandfather, John Wilson, emigrated to North America from Paisley in 1832. 2^nd great grandparents Daniel Blue (1797)and Cathaie McFarlain (1918), of Kilcalmonell Argyll, Scotland, and John Wilson (1812) of Paisley, Renfrew, Scotland.  Television star Ronald Reagan as the host of General Electric Theater.

2011 Newsweek Magazine Cover featuring Governor Willard Mitt Romney (clans Cameron, Currie, Ferguson, McKinlay, Muir, Wilson) The Mormon Moment How the Outsider Faith Creates Winners.

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