November 11 Martinmas Old Scottish term days corresponded approximately to the auld Celtic quarter days.

397 Martin Bishop of Tours.

1216 Gloucester, upon the death of King John, William Marshal (age 70) was named by the king’s council (the chief barons who had remained loyal to King John in the First Barons’ War) to serve as protector of the nine year auld King Henry III, and regent of the kingdom.

1309 sometime this year. Battle of the Pass of Brander victory for King Robert Bruce over the MacDougalls of Argyll, kinsmen of John Comyn, also known as the Red Comyn, who had been murdered by Bruce and his adherents at Dumfries in 1306.

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1328 sometime this year.   Clan Lumsden Gillbert de Lumsden married an heiress of Blanerne.

1498 sometime in, ‘pestilence’ Latin root is pestis, for plague, epidemic, destruction, curse. Plague comes from Latin plaga which meant blow and wound, and plangere to strike and strike down. ‘Repent, repent ye, Hear the words of that God who made you, by the voice of pestilence.’ Jesus Christ in Doctrine and Covenants section 43. The concept of microbe infection or disease for pestilence was still 350 years in the future.

1500 Treaty of Granada was signed on November 11, 1500. Based on the terms of the agreement, Ferdinand II of Aragon would support French (Louis XII of France) claims over the Kingdom of Naples in return for acquiring territories from the division of the kingdom.

1575 Alexander Gordon, Bishop of Galloway Alexander Gordon (died 1575) was a 16^th century archbishop of Glasgow, bishop of Sodor and bishop of Galloway.

Sodor is the Hebrides.   Alexander was the brother of George Gordon, 4^th Earl of Huntly, the ex-Chancellor of Scotland. He was provided and consecrated to the archdiocese of Glasgow in the year 1550. This see was resigned to the pope in 1551, and he was given a pe nsion and the title archbishop of Athens in partibus, along with the commendam of Inchaffray. In 1553, he was translated to the bishopric of the Isles (Sodor) at Iona. In 1559, after the death of the bishop of Galloway, Alexander was translated that bishopric. Alexander became a Protestant, and died on 11 November 1575.

Alexander was closely connected to the Scottish royal family, his mother, Margaret Stewart, Countess of Huntly, was a daughter of James IV. After the Earl’s death she married Sir James Drummond of Innerpeffray, where Alexander and his brothers occasionally lived.

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1688 William III of England (after William the Conqueror, who became the first of the William Kings, when William Rufus became the second) set sail from the Netherlands on 11 November (Gregorian calendar on New Style). Also know as William 2^nd of Scotland (after William the Lion who was the first William King of Scots), William and his attendants will arrive at Brixham in England on 5 November (Julian calendar or auld Style), sort of a 17^th century Back to the Future.

1715 General Charles Wills was ordered to halt Jacobite advance into Preston, and left Manchester on the 11^th November with six regiments, arriving on the 12^th .

1864 – American Civil War: Sherman’s March to the Sea – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.

1885 George Smith Patton, Jr. born (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was General in the United States Army during World War II. Scots ancestry.

1889 Washington statehood. Scots names locations (Wikipeda)

Aberdeen, Blaine, Cathcart, Cunningham, Douglas, Elgin, Fife, Finley, Graham, Kelso, Kenmore, Lake McMurray, McMillan, McNeil Island, Monroe, Sinclair Island

1918 Armistice Great War in Europe. Eleven O’Clock, 11^th Day, 11^th Month. Veteran’s Day in United States of America. ‘A total of 147,609 Scots lost their lives in the four-year-long conflict between 1914 and 1918. While Scotland had just a tenth of the UK’s population, its soldiers accounted for a fifth of Britain’s war dead. Or, to put it another way, twice as many Scots died per head of population than was the case south of the border.’ http://www.scotland.org.uk/history/great-war

1920 fictional James Bond born. Ye Only Live Twice that Fleming gave Bond a sense of family background. The book was the first to be written after the release of Dr. No in cinemas and Sean Connery’s depiction of Bond affected Fleming’s interpretation of the character, to give Bond both a sense of humour and Scottish antecedents that were not present in the previous stories. In a fictional obituary, purportedly published in The Times, Bond’s parents were given as Andrew Bond, from the village of Glencoe, Scotland,

Sean Connery in front of Saint Andrews cross National Flag of Scotland. Of course Fleming was a Scot. (clan Fleming).

1940 – World War II: Battle of Taranto – The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.

1940 The Long Voyage Home movie released. Tells of the ship the SS Glencairn, crossing the Atlantic in World War Two. Glencairn is an ecclesiastical and civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The Cunninghams assumed the title of Earl of Glencairn from the parish.^[1] Glencairn Castle in Moniaive, now called Maxwelton House, dates back to 1370.^[3] First owned by the Dennistouns, it was passed to the Cunninghams by marriage. They became the Earls of Glencairn in 1488. In 1611 the castle was sold to the Laurie family. Annie Laurie, subject of an old Scottish poem, was born in the castle in 1682. The original tower house has been much extended and modernized, and is now more of a mansion than a castle. Wikipedia.

Poster.Walter Wanger Producer, John Ford’s Production of Eugene O’Neill’s The Long Voyage Home. The love of Women in Their Eyes, The Salt of the Sea in Their Blood. Argosy Corporation.

1942 – World War II: The Second Battle of El Alamein is won by the British in El Alamein, Egypt.

1945 The Great War was renamed World War One by some statutes about 1945. 1918 Great War Armistice begins at 11 hours 11 minutes local time to Paris. Date made Veteran’s holiday in the United States

1966 Gemini 12 (officially Gemini XII) was a 1966 manned spaceflight in NASA’s Project Gemini. It was the 10th and final manned Gemini flight, the 18^th manned American flight and, including X-15 flights over 100 kilometres (62 mi), the 26th spaceflight of all time. Buzz Aldrin Pilot, performed 3 space walks totaling three and ahalf hours. Aldrin’s Scots ancestors from Robert Munro included 4^{t h}GGF Robert Munro 8^th Laird of Fouls 1332

4^th GGM Jean Ross

4^th GGF John Keith 1325 Synton Selkirkshire

4^th GGM Mariot le Cheyne 1336 Inverug, Aberdeen, Scotland

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3^rd GGF John MacCulloch Plaida, Ross, Scotland 1380

4^th GGM Margaret Erstine 1392 Scot

GF Sir Alexander Dunbar

GM Jean Falconer

Biography

Aldrin’s space swim. Selected by NASA in 1963 into the third group of astronauts, Aldrin was the first with a doctorate and became known as “Dr. Rendezvous.”  The docking and rendezvous techniques he devised for spacecraft in Earth and lunar orbit became critical to the success of the Gemini and Apollo programs, and are still used today.  He also pioneered underwater training techniques, as a substitute for zero gravity flights, to simulate spacewalking.

In 1966, on the Gemini 12 orbital mission, Buzz performed the world’s first successful spacewalk, overcoming prior difficulties experienced in all American and Russian extra-vehicular activity (EVA), and set a new EVA record of 5 ½ hours.

1999 – The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage. Several controversies were brought up in the House of Lords. Clauses 1 to 7, were described by Lord Mayhew of Twysden as “uncertain in its effects and would leave the position of most hereditary Peers uncertain if the Bill was enacted.” The Acts of Union 1707 united Scotland and England into the Kingdom of Great Britain. After lengthy debates, both matters were referred to the House of Lords Committee on Privileges. Under the Acts of Union 1707, Scottish Lords could elect sixteen representative peers to sit in the House of Lords. In 1963, the Peerage Act was passed, allowing all Scottish peers to sit in the House, not just sixteen of them. It was felt that removing all Scottish representation would breach the Articles. The Government, however, responded that the Articles did envisage a change in the election of representative peers. It was argued that some portions of the Treaty were entrenched, while others were not. While Scotland and England were united “forever,” the Scottish Court of Session was to “remain in all time coming within Scotland as it is now constituted,” and the establishment of the Church of Scotland was “effectually and unalterably secured.’ The election of Scottish representative peers was not entrenched, and therefore could be amended. Parliament was entirely sovereign and supreme, and could at its will change the Articles of Union, as happened with the Treaty of Union joining Great Britain and Ireland “for ever.” Nonetheless, in 1922, by an Act of Parliament, most of Ireland was made independent as the Irish Free State. Thus, even entrenched clauses were argued to be open to amendment by the authority of Parliament. The Committee agreed and reported to the House on 20 October 1999, that the Bill was indeed lawful in this regard.

2011 On November, 11, 2011, Dr. Livingstone’s 1871 Field Diary, was published online for the first time by the “David Livingstone Spectra Imaging Project – a unique, eighteen-month, transatlantic collaboration between scholars, scientists and educational and archival institutions” The archives of David Livingstone are maintained by the Archives of the University of Glasgow (GUAS).

The journeys of Livingstone in Africa between 1851 and 1873

Henry Morton Stanley meets David Livingstone

“I was also present [August 22, 23, 1877] in the St. George Temple and witnessed the appearance of the Spirits *** [including Livingstone],*** Who came to Wilford Woodruff and demanded that their baptism and endowments be done. Wilford Woodruff was baptized for all of them. *** . They also prepared the peoples hearts so they would be ready to receive the restored gospel when the Lord sent it again to men on the earth.” (Personal journal of James Godson Bleak-Chief Recorder of the St. George Temple, Clerk to Brigham Young).

2016 NewStatesman London weekly Cover featuring President Donald Trump (Scots clans McLeod, Macaulay, MacQueen, Isle of Lewis).

2016 People As America Wakes Up, His Life, his family & his astonishing journey to the White House.

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