May 5 1215 – Barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England – all were cousins of various relationships – part of events leading to Magna Carta. In May, King John offered to submit issues to a committee of arbitration with Pope Innocent III as the supreme arbiter, but the barons continued in their defiance. With the support of Prince Louis, the French Heir and of King Alexander II of the Scots, the Barons entered London in force on 10 June 1215, with the city showing its sympathy with their cause by opening its gates to them. Clauses 58 and 59 provided for the return of Welsh and Scottish hostages. Magna carta cum statutis angliae, (Great Charter with English Statutes) page 1 of manuscript, fourteenth century.

1640 – King Charles I of England (clans Stewart and Douglas) dissolves the Short Parliament.

1646 Charles 1st (clans Stewart and Douglas) surrendered to a Scottish army at Southwell, Nottinghamshire.

Charles I surrenders to the Scots at Newark – 1646. After starting the war well, Charles’ Royalist forces face defeat. Fearing capture by the Parliamentary army, Charles surrenders to the Covenanters. He is taken to Newcastle and pressured to sign the National Covenant. Charles refuses and is handed over to the English Parliament. Video: A history of Scotland: God’s Chosen People.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/covenanters/charles_surrenders_to_scots_at_newark/

1679 Archbishop Sharpe was waylayed and murdered by Hackston of Rathillet and Balfour of burley, in vengence for Sharpe’s murders and wrongs against the Covenanters. Tytler’s Britannica.

1764 Annie Laurie Died. Friars’ Carse, Dumfries-shire, Scotland. Born 16 December 1682. Wishing Chair. Forest Lawn built this Annie Laurie Wishing Chair of Stone, which once composed a part of the old Wee Kirk At Glencairn Where Annie Laurie worshipped. In Glencaairn they sai the Fairies, have blessed these stones. Tradition tells us that good fortune will forever smile upon the Bride And Bridegroom who sit in this chair or on their wedding day and, Hand in Hand, Recite together the Verse on the tablet in front of the Wishing Chair. Glendale, California.

1827 – Sometime in May. Sir Walter Scott tells the plot that the Scots were told a story to colonize the Isthmus of Panama by fellow Scots, and the Scots people were so excited that HALF of the capital in Scotland was put into the project. This was the Darien colony (1699) between the Atlantic and the Pacific. It was a crucial location between two oceans, and it was true the Spanish had not colonized it, and also true that few Indian tribes hunted the area. In fact no Indian tribes could hunt the area.  All this was part of the great North and South American land grab which was to bless England, Spain and Portugal, and could have helped France and Russia, Sweden and the Dutch, Italy and Moors, but God was against the latter group.  The reason Spain could not colonize was because of the symptoms of a fatal disease, which Scott mentions in 1827, only in passing, while recounting the events of a century plus earlier (1699-1700). Such was the reason no one could settle some of the most prime real estate in the new world. Disease, or yellow fever, knew no race or creed. A generation after Scott, Pasteur proved the microbiology theory of disease (circa 1850). Then two generations after Pasteur, associating the symptoms of a fatal disease with yellow fever infection, Colonel Walter Reed, US Army Surgeon, proved that mosquitoes passed the yellow fever disease (1900) to humans. This research was to enable the United States to control ‘yellow jack’ (a nick name for the disease of yellow fever) and finish digging the Panama Canal, and then to colonize the Isthmus (circa 1901-1910). In the latter 1800s, the French tried and failed to colonize the Isthmus, as did other countries, including Scotland (1699-1701).  Too bad the Scots didn’t stay farther north, and put their money into the Carolinas, where a lot of Scots did move circa 1750s after the ‘45, perhaps guided by the failures of the Darien Company of Scotland.  The reference of [Sir Walter Scott’s Tales of a Grandfather-59-27] means chapter 59, page 27 in Tales of a Grandfather.  The Scots Darien speculation was a good idea, but the disease (yellow fever) would prohibit the success until the prevention was found (i.e. control and stop mosquitoes reproduction, circa 1903).   The prevention was to destroy open air fresh water pools so mosquitoes could not grow.

1864 Nellie Bly and help launch a new kind of investigative journalism was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran on May 5, 1864 in Cochran’s Mills, Pennsylvania. The similarity between her surname and her birthplace was no coincidence: the town was named after its most prominent citizen, her father Michael Cochran, a wealthy landowner, judge, and businessman. (clan Cochrane)

1877 – Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles, Being chased from the prior year battle of June 25, 1876 at Little Bighorn, Montana and [Brevet Major General of Volunteers] Lieutenant Colonel Regular Army George Armstrong Custer. Custer’s maternal 2nd great grandmother was Sarah Armstrong (Armstrong clan) and mother was Marie Ward Kirkpatrick (1807–1882).

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Custer and Bloody Knife (kneeling left), Custer’s favorite scout.

1879 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints called Hugh Findlay to Scotland. On May 5, 1879, Orson Pratt (who was also in the British Isles at the time) received a letter from John Taylor, instructing Pratt to obtain electroplates for a new edition of the Doctrine & Covenants. Findlay and three other men helped Pratt divide the text into verses and supply references. While in Shetland Findlay was asked to preside over the Scotland Mission. One history records: “[Findlay] had no money with which to pay his steamboat passage to Scotland, but, true to his unwavering faith, he packed his suitcase, ready to obey, and walked toward the wharf where he was to sail. As he passed the post office, he asked for his mail and received a letter from a strange lady who wrote him of her interest in articles he had written for the Millennial Star and enclosed for him a five-pound note which was equal to about twenty-five dollars in American money.” 
Findlay was released as president of the Scotland Mission in 1880. He returned to his families in Fish Haven, where he served as a Patriarch until his death on March 2, 1900.

1891 – The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor. Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland.

Carnegie Hall New York City.

Other concert halls that bear Carnegie’s name include 420-seat Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg, West Virginia; 1928-seat Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the main site of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh; 1022-seat Carnegie Music Hall annexed to Pittsburgh suburb Homestead’s Carnegie library; and Carnegie Hall, a 540-seat venue, in Andrew Carnegie’s native Dunfermline.

1904 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball. (27 at bat, 27 outs by one pitcher) Presendia Lathrop Huntington, sixth woman to marry LDS Church founder Joseph Smith, Jr. The earldom of Huntingdon (or Huntington) was one of the seven earldoms of Saxon England during the reign of king Edward the Confessor. The earldom was inherited by Waltheof’s daughter Maud, countess of Huntingdon, and passed to her husbands David King of Scotland. Cy Young was the oldest child born to McKinzie Young Jr. and Nancy Miller.

1925 – Scopes Trial: serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act. Darwin’s evolution was based on the theory of spontaneous generation, previously discredited by Pasteur in 1850. The trial was the basis for Inherit the Wind. The judge was James Ralston (Ralston clan). Inherit the Wind is a 1960 Hollywood film. Spencer Tracy as fictional lawyer Henry Drummond (Drummond clan). It was remade in 1999, co-starring Jack Lemmon as Drummond and George C. Scott as Mathew Brady. Wikipedia. In 1925, scientists overwhelmingly believed in the ‘sound barrier’, an invisible but very real ‘solid impenetrable wall’ which prevented man from attaining speeds as fast as the speed of sound, without destruction of man and machine. So naturally, belief in monkey trial fit with the ignorance of the time. (Stories were written, that after radio, electric lights, aviation, internal combustion engine, x-ray, everything had been invented or discovered.)

1940 HM Queen Mary, Cunard Line, built Clydebank Scotland, converted to troopship. First voyage as a troop transport. Sailed in convoy with AQUITANIA, MAURETANIA (II), EMPRESS OF BRITAIN, EMPRESS OF CANADA, and EMPRESS OF JAPAN, from Sydney, Australia, to Gourock, Scotland, with 5,500 troops.

1963 Sometime in May. Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th 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. Officiates at the laying of the cornerstone of the Oakland California Temple.

Oakland Temple at Christmas.

1969 Apollo 8.

Apollo six cents 1969 Issue ~ In the beginning God …

 

1995 United Health Foundation America’s Health rankings 1995 Overall. Utah ranked 1st, http://www.americashealthrankings.org/OK-UT/1995

Utah is ranked 2nd highest (4.6% of the state population) among the 50 United States with the top percentages of Scottish residents (Wikipedia 26 March 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Americans#Scottish_Americans_by_state ).   How are the Scots in Utah doing?

2017 Hi I’m Heather – People. I am 19 years old from Glasgow, Scotland. I graduated with a Higher National Diploma as a Dance Artist. I’m a Mormon.

Hi I’m Heather. I am a professionally trained dancer from Scotland, UK. I love to dance (obviously) rock-climb, sing and reading.

 

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