September 2 1243 Gilbert de Clare 6th Earl of Hertford 7th Earl of Gloucester born. ‘Red’. son of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester, and of Maud de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln, daughter of John de Lacy and Margaret de Quincy. Gilbert supposed to be a 2nd Great Grandson of Helen of Galloway.

Coat of Arms of de Clare family.

Gilbert is the 18th Great Grandfather of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and 19th GGF of Prime Minister Cameron.

1547 – heading toward Pinkie. Extra gunners were recruited and 140 pioneers, workmen, were employed by Duncan Dundas to move the guns. On 2 September carts were hired to take the guns and the Scottish tents and pavilions towards Musselburgh. There were horses, and oxen were supplied by the Laird of Elphinstone. John Drummond of Milnab,

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master carpenter of the Scottish ordinance, led the wagon train. There was a newly painted banner, and ahead a boy played on the swesche, a kind of drum.

Dundas Crest: A lion’s head affrontée looking through a bush of oak Proper. Motto: ESSAYEZ. [from French: “Try”]. Chief: David Dundas of Dundas has not been heard from in over 30 years. It remains uncertain if he is still alive.

Pinkie is east of Leith and Edinburgh, just south of the Firth of Forth.

1643 Beginning of Siege of Hull (1643). East Riding of Yorkshire. England. Sir John Meldrum (died 1645) leader of Parliamentarians. In July 1642 Meldrum accepted a commission to assist Sir John Hotham in the defense of Hull. Before actual hostilities began he wrote a bold letter to the king, assailing the policy of Charles, justifying his own conduct. ‘When I perceived that no corner in your dominions could afford a good man … who did not groan under the exorbitances of the time … I could find no better way to do your majesty a more general service than by stopping the course of a civil war … as to cast myself into Hull’ (Rushworth, iv. 628). He made two sallies against the king’s forces, ‘the first blood as some say that was shed in these unnatural wars’ (ib. p. 610). Dictionary of National Biography Vol. 37

1675 – William Somerville, English poet (d. 1742) born.

William Somerville

1745 Monday, Edinburgh. Maclaurin wrote in his journal “The accounts from the north becoming more and more unfavourable, above twenty gentlemen of known good affection to His Majesty and the Government, met at Mrs Clark’s tavern, and agreed to apply to the Lord Provost that he would give orders for putting the town in as good a state of defense as possible with all expedition … in the meantime they appointed two of their number, a gentleman who had formerly been a Bailie, and Mr Maclaurin, to wait on the Provost next morning.’ Colin Maclaurin, of West Highland ancestry, a son of the manse, was born at Kilmodan, between the Kyles of Bute and upper Loch Fyne, in February 1698. At the age of 11 Colin, already proficient in Latin and Greek, entered Glasgow University, and graduated M.A. in his fifteenth year. At age of 19, he became a candidate for the Chair of Mathematics at Marischal College, Aberdeen. During vacations from Aberdeen he was in the habit of visiting London, where he made valuable contacts, particularly with Newton and Halley, and with Martin Folkes, Newton’s successor as President of the Royal Society, of which Maclaurin was elected a fellow in 1719.

http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Maclaurin_EMS_notes.html

1752 – Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe. 1752 The English civil year started on 25 March until 1752 (Scotland having changed the beginning of its new year to 1 January by Royal decree in 1600). Old style dates would be a year earlier than the new style for days between 1 January and 24 March. Eleven days did not occur in September 1752 in both England and Scotland as well as other British controlled territories (when the day after 2 September was 14 September), so as to bring the British Empire fully in line with the Gregorian calendar. Wikipedia

1753 – Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy, Italy-born queen consort of France and wife of King Louis XVIII of France (d. 1810)

1781 The French and American armies paraded through Philadelphia from September 2 to 4, where the American soldiers proclaimed they would not leave Maryland until they received one month’s pay. The Continental Congress complied, giving them the money, which inflated, and was later replaced by land grants in the west.

1840 four Scottish converts had left their homeland for Zion, the beginning of a tide of thousands who would follow. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

1840 sometime that year. Fictional Downy O’Drake born. Downy married Fergus McDuck and is Scrooge McDuck’s mother. She settled in Castle McDuck at Dismal Downs, the Clan McDuck’s old castle, along with her family in 1885. She died in 1897.

1850 – Eugene Field American writer (d. 1895) born. An elementary school in Oklahoma City chose the name and operated for some decades from the 1930s to the 1960s.

1864 – American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia, a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city.

1865 – William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (b. 1805) died.

1887 Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart KCMG Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (1943) (2 September 1887 – 27 February 1970), was a secret agent, British diplomat in Moscow and Prague. His 1932 book Memoirs of a British Agent. born in Anstruther, Fife, Scotland, the son of Robert Bruce Lockhart, the first headmaster of Spier’s School, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland. His mother was a Macgregor, while his other ancestors include Bruces, Hamiltons, Cummings,

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Wallaces and Douglases. He also claimed he could trace a connection back to Boswell of Auchinleck. He once remarked, “There is no drop of English blood in my veins.”

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1898 – Battle of Omdurman– British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.

“The charge of the 21st Lancers” by Edward Matthew Hale. At the Battle of Omdurman (2 September 1898), an army commanded by the British General Sir Herbert Kitchener defeated the army of Abdullah al-Taashi, the successor to the self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad.

1898 – Wilford Woodruff died. American and fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807 Farmington, Connecticut) The Woodruff meetinghouse on the Yale Campus was named for him about 2002.

1898 Lorenzo Snow descended (7th great grand father) John Lyon of Angus shire, Elizabeth Scrymgeour (Angus), Andrew Gray (Roxburgh), Janet Keith (Kincardine), Gorge Douglas (Ayr), Elizabeth Boyd (Renfrew), John Drummond (Stobhill), Elizabeth Lindsay (Lanark), Mariota Maxwell (Lanark), Isobel Sibbald (fife), Mariot Murray (Perth), Margaret Dunbar (Berwick).

After extensive prayer in the Salt Lake Temple, a grand daughter reported President Snow told her, ‘the Lord Jesus Christ appeared to me at the time of the death of President Woodruff. He instructed me to go right ahead and reorganize the First Presidency of the Church at once and not wait as had been done after the death of the previous presidents, and that I was to succeed President Woodruff. He stood right here, about three feet above the floor. It looked as though He stood on a plate of solid gold.” Lorenzo Snow was the President of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles and next in line to succeed Wilford Woodruff as Prophet, Seer and Revelator and President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.http://www.believeallthings.com/3456/saviors-appearance-lorenzo-snow/

1939 – World War II: following the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany.

the Overrun Countries series (known to collectors as the Flag set), produced as a tribute to the thirteen nations that had been occupied by the Axis Powers. The thirteen stamps present full color images of the national flags of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Greece, Yugoslavia, Albania, Austria, Denmark, and Korea, with the names of the respective countries written beneath. Wikipedia.

1939 later in the day Cleveland Air Races. Robert MacArthur Crawford (1899-1961) (clans MacArthur and Crawford)sang the first public performance of the song informally known as “The Air Force Song” but now formally titled “The U.S. Air Force” which he wrote music and lyrics.

1 Off we go into the wild blue yonder,

Climbing high into the sun;

Here they come zooming to meet our thunder,

At ’em boys, Give ‘er the gun! (Give ‘er the gun now!)

Down we dive, spouting our flame from under,

Off with one helluva roar!

We live in fame or go down in flame. (Shout)

Nothing’ll stop the Army Air Corps (U.S. Air Force!)

2 Minds of men fashioned a crate of thunder,

Sent it high into the blue;

Hands of men blasted the world asunder;

How they lived God only knew! (God only knew then!)

Souls of men dreaming of skies to conquer

Gave us wings, ever to soar!

With scouts before And bombers galore. (Shout)

Nothing’ll stop the Army Air Corps (U.S. Air Force!)

3 Bridge: “A Toast to the Host”

Here’s a toast to the host

Of those who love the vastness of the sky,

To a friend we send a message of his brother men who fly.

We drink to those who gave their all of old,

Then down we roar to score the rainbow’s pot of gold.

A toast to the host of men we boast, the Army Air Corps (U.S. Air Force!)

4 Zoom! Off we go into the wild sky yonder,

Keep the wings level and true;

If you’d live to be a grey-haired wonder

Keep the nose out of the blue! (Out of the blue, boy!)

Flying men, guarding the nation’s border,

We’ll be there, followed by more!

In echelon we carry on. (Shout)

Nothing’ll stop the Army Air Corps (U.S. Air Force!)

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1945 – World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: the Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. General Douglas Macarthur commanding.

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1971, Graduation from West Point in 1903, Douglas MacArthur had a number of engineering assignments before being assigned to participate in the occupation of Veracruz, Mexico. During World War I, he was chief of staff, brigade leader, and then commander of the 42nd Division in France. Following a period with the occupation army at Koblenz, Germany, he was superintendent at West Point. MacArthur was promoted to full general on being named army chief of staff in 1930, and retired from the army in 1937. usstampgallery.com

1949 Moira Clare Ruby Stuart OBE (born 2 September 1949) is a British journalist. (16 November 2004 In Who Do You Think You Are?, she travelled up to the Scottish Highlands, as well as to Antigua and to Dominica. Stuart discovered the story of how her grandfather Edgar Fitzgerald Gordon met his wife Clara Christian while both were studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh.

2006 The Queen filmed in Scotland at Balmoral Castle and Castle Fraser in Aberdeenshire and Blairquhan Castle and Culzean Castle in South Ayrshire. The Royal Family are at Balmoral Castle their summer estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

The Queen Poster.

Balmoral Castle. In 1848, Queen Victoria and prince consort Albert purchased the 50,000 acre estate and built the castle.

Culzean Castle built in the 16th century, lies on the South Ayrshire coast. The rumor is the fictional sole ghost occupying the castle is a handless women who was the daughter of the first Earl of Cawdor. The daughter fell in love with a man belonging to a rival family. She was discovered by her father, with her lover, at a secret meeting place, where he became so enraged he cut off her hands so could never hold her lover again. www.destination360.com/europe/uk/haunted-scotland-castles

2005 Gulf Coast, Hurricane Katrina. The US Coast Guard continues relief and evacuation efforts. Of the 60,000 people stranded in New Orleans, the Coast Guard rescued more than 33,500.[116] Congress recognized the Coast Guard’s response with an official entry in the Congressional Record, and the Armed Service was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation. Rear Admiral Robert Duncan Commander. (clan Duncan)

 

2012 HUMOR. “Ah, Kyla, drinking makes ye look so bonnie.”

“But Donald, Ah dinna drink!” “But Ah do!”

http://www.humorsphere.com/humor/scottish_jokes.htm

 

 

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