October 17 – 107 Feast of Ignatius Bishop of Antioch Martyr circa 107

1346 Battle at Neville’s Cross west of Durham, England with David II (prisoner – freed 1357) Robert Steward (later Robert II (1371–1390) and Patrick Dunbar, earl of March escaped. (TG15-227) Second War of Scottish Independence. Robert Keith, was killed. Sir David de Hamilton, lord of Cadyow,

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taken prisoner with the king, obtained his freedom on payment of a heavy ransom. www.electricscotland.com. George Abernethy of Saltoun also prisoner.

David II by Sylvester Harding (published in 1797)

William, 5^th Earl of Sutherland with the King David II in the 4^th line, taken prisoner, later escaped. English under command of Percy, Neville and great northern barons, with the archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the bishops of Durham, Carlisle, and Lincoln. David, and the Knight of Liddesdale, Earls of Fife, Menteith, Sutherland, and Wigton, 50 barons and knights, were taken prisoners. De la Haye, the Constable, Keith the Marshal, Chartres the High Chancellor, and Peebles the Lord Chamberlain, with the earls of Moray and Strathern, and 30 barons and 15,000 men were slain. Tytler’s Britannica 64.

1551 – John Dudley, 1^st Duke of Northumberland overthrew Edward Seymour to become the new regent of the English king [Edward VI]. Knox condemned the coup d’état in a sermon on All Saints Day. When Dudley visited Newcastle and listened to his preaching in June 1552, he had mixed feelings about the fire-brand preacher, but he saw Knox as a potential asset.

1560 Pietro Martire Vermigli or Peter Martyr greatly assisted Cranmer in the English Reformation. Portrait by Hans Asper, 1560.

1632 On 17 October 1632, the Court of Star Chamber banned all “news books” because of complaints from Spanish and Austrian diplomats that coverage of the Thirty Years’ War in England was unfair. [Unfair? What is that?]

1642 King Charles (later the 1^st) passed through Birmingham, England, the towns folk seized the Kings carriages, containing the royal plate and furniture, which they conveyed for security to Warwick Castle, a parliamentary stronghold. The same day there was a skirmish at Kings Norton.

1701 Duke of Perth created before 17 October 1701 for Drummond still extant for the 4^th Earl of Perth, also Duke of Melfort from 2 July 1800 to 28 February 1902. Marquess of Drummond created before 17 October 1701 for Drummond     extant a subsidiary title of the Duke of Perth.

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1715 Duke of Argyle’s troops march on Seaton house. (TG68-316)

1777 Battle of Saratoga [New York]. 21^st , the Royal Scots Fusiliers; now the Royal Highland Fusiliers. 62^nd Foot: later the Wiltshire Regiment, then the Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment. American Units; Livingston’s New York Regiment. (clan Livingstone)

The death of Brigadier Simon Fraser. At a critical moment in the fighting Brigadier Simon Fraser (clan Fraser) was mortally wounded by one of Morgan’s riflemen.

http://www.britishbattles.com/battle-saratoga.htm

1781 Yorktown Virginia. Cornwallis surrendered. Highlanders and Scots taken prisoner.

1797 Campo Formio. Treaty between France and Austria. Tytler’s Britannica.

1829 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 signarture of 16 pages, in quantities of 5,000 copies will be printed per 6 day 11 hour per day week. Meridian Magazine (14 Apr 2005). http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2005/printing.html

8^th   form of 16 pages printed. Somewhere in Jacob. Grandin Building restored. Printed signatures, with 16 pages to a side, 32 pages to a sheet.

1901 Joseph F. Smith (born November 13, 1838) became 6^th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. Descendant of Mack of Inverness Scotland, and Malcolm King of Scots.

1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a 1939 American drama film.

Poster. James Maitland “Jimmy” Stewart 1908-1997. Major General United States Air Force, American actor, Scottish descent. (clans Stewart, Maitland)

1939 Scapa Flow. Ju.88’s struck at Scapa Flow and the old gunnery training battleship “Iron Duke” was bomb-damaged and had to be beached. German destroyers and later other surface vessels started laying mines off the British East Coast. Aircraft also attacked the East Coast convoy routes, but initially without success. In defence, it took some months for RAF Fighter Command to arrange effective sweeps, but there were too few AA guns to arm merchantmen

Map showing Scapa Flow in the Orkney Isles, the Pentland Firth, Fair Isle and Shetland Isles.

1963 Astronaut Group 3 was the third group of astronauts selected by NASA. Four died in training accidents before they could fly in space. All of the surviving ten flew in the Apollo program; five also flew Gemini missions. Aldrin, Bean, Cernan and Scott walked on the Moon.

Astronauts.

5 Scots included

Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr, USAF Gemini 12, Apollo 11. (born January 20, 1930) Performed first productive Extra-Vehicular Activity without tiring; Lunar Module Pilot, first manned lunar landing. Second man to walk on the moon. [clans Campbell, Cheyne, Douglas, Dunbar, Erskine, Falconer, Fraser, Keith, Lyon, MacCulloch, MacKenzie, Munro, Ross, Stewart]

Falconer. Crest: An angel in a praying posture Or, within an orle of laurel Proper. Motto: VIVE UT VIVAS
[“Live that you may have life”]

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Alan L. Bean, USN Apollo 12, Skylab 3 Lunar Module Pilot, (born March 15, 1932) second manned lunar landing. Fourth man to walk on the moon. Commander, second American space station mission. [clan MacBean. Alan Bean’s immigrant ancestor and 8th great grandfather, was John MacBean a young Highland soldier captured in the battle of Worster in 1652 by Cromwell. MacBean and other POWs [prisoners of war]
were shipped on the “Sarah & John” to Boston and shortly after John Bean removed to Exeter, New Hampshire. (the Mac was taken off by the clerk on the ship)]

1. Walter Cunningham, USMC Apollo 7 Lunar Module Pilot (systems engineer), (born March 16, 1932), first Apollo manned mission in earth orbit (no LM). [Clan Cunningham]  Cunningham of Caprington 1162 2Stewart2Miller 2Simmons2Choate zoe Richard F. Gordon, Jr, USN Gemini 11, Apollo 12 Command Module Pilot, (born October 5, 1929) second manned lunar landing. Backup Commander Apollo 15. Slated to land as Commander on Apollo 18. [Gordon clan].

David R. Scott, USAF Gemini 8, Apollo 9, Apollo 15  Command Module Pilot, (born June 6, 1932) first all-up test flight of Apollo spacecraft Apollo 9, Commanded the fourth manned lunar landing. Seventh man to walk on the moon. Boy Scouts of America, where he achieved its second highest rank, Life Scout.

A chart showing Group 3 assignments in Gemini and Apollo in relation to assignments from other astronaut groups. It shows how the surviving members of this group flew on Apollo, providing more moonwalkers than any other group (four), with half of the group (seven) making it to lunar orbit. This group also bore the brunt of casualties, with four members dying in the span of three years.

1972 Gretchen Ann Luther (clans Armstrong and McPherson) and John Choate (clans Cochrane, Hunter, Meldrum, Lockhart, and Stewart) sealed in Los Angeles.

2007 Joshua Choate born.

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