Kilt Wearers Calendar

**davedove** · 27th April 06, 06:38 AM

Originally Posted by Caradoc

Also born on March 3rd: James Doohan. (1920)

Oh... and so was I. But not in Edinburgh.

Some other dates for our favorite "TV Scott":

August 31, 2004 - James Doohan receives his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

July 20, 2005 - James Doohan dies from pneumonia in Redmond, WA.

**davedove** · 27th April 06, 06:52 AM

Some more dates:

February 13 - The massacre at Glencoe, 1692

March 1 - Saint David's Day (patron saint of Wales)

June 9 - Feast of Saint Columba, founder of the monastery on the island of Iona, burial place of early Scottish kings.

June 10 - Feast of Saint Margaret of Scotland, the saintly wife of King Malcolm III.

July 22 - In 1758, the 42nd Highland Regiment, the “Black Watch”, is given its 'Royal' designation.

August 23 - Wallace Day (William Wallace is executed, 1305)

September 9 - The Battle of Flodden in 1513, where a large number of Scots, including King James IV, were killed.

September 11 - Battle of Stirling Bridge (1297)

October 20 - Gordon Highlanders - Dargai Day (1897)

October 25 - In 1739, the six independant companies of the "Highland Watch" or the “Black Watch”, originally raised in 1729, along with four newly-raised companies, were incorporated into a Regiment of Foot under John, the Earl of Crawford. This Regiment was originally numbered the 43rd Highland Regiment, but was renumbered as the 42nd in 1749.

**bangkok kilt** · 27th April 06, 07:16 AM

Impressive list P1M.

Now the science teacher comes out in me. Scotland is famous for it's long history of scientific achiement. It has always been a place where science has flourished, even before it began to be encourage in other parts of the world. We owe many of our scientific achievements to the Scots! So here are some birthdays of some famous scientists from Scotland.

January 19 - Birth of James Watt an inventor whose improvements to the steam engine were largely responsible for the industial revolution
February 15 - Birth of Robert Angus Smith who discovered and coined the term acid rain.
April 13 - Birth of Robert Watson-Watt considered to be the inventor of RADAR
April 16 - Birth of Joseph Black the discoverer of Carbon Dioxide and formulated a theory on latent heat.
June 26 - Birth of The Right Honourable William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin one of the most famous physicists of the 19th century. The Kelvin scale of absolute temperature still bears his name.
July 5 - Birth of Dolly the Sheep cloned at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh.
October 2 - Birth of William Ramsay who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904
December 21 - Birth of Robert Brown discoverer of Brownian Motion

**Pour1Malt** · 27th April 06, 07:44 AM

excellent braw additions Lads!

ta!

keep em comin.....

**GMan** · 27th April 06, 08:46 AM

Since nothing is mentioned for October, and I know for a fact several of us on the board here celebrate our birthday on October 3rd, that must be good for something.

**Colin** · 27th April 06, 09:01 AM

Originally Posted by Pour1Malt

April 6 -- Celebration of Tartan Day approved by the US Senate, in recognition of the monumental achievements and invaluable contributions made by Scottish Americans. (1998)

Canada has been celebrating "National Tartan Day" since 1993. The idea and motivation for creating a similar American holiday was provided by the Scottish Coalition, a group of national Scottish- American cultural organizations.

http://www.tartanday.org/history.htm
http://www.electricscotland.com/tartnday.htm

Let's not forget Samhain in October (now mostly known as Halloween) http://www.celticspirit.org/samhain.htm

July 22nd Stornoway born Alexander MacKenzie made it across Canada, becoming the first white person north of Mexico to reach the Pacific by crossing overland. Almost a decade before Lewis and Clark.
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/2/6/h6-221-e.html
http://www.amvr.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark

**Kilted KT** · 27th April 06, 09:27 AM

this is quite an impressive list we have going here...

Not to ruin the fun, but would it not be easier to say "if the day ends with "y" you can wear the kilt?"

**Colin** · 27th April 06, 09:30 AM

I also want to point out that we have an Xmarks Calender found on the Portal page on the left hand side http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/calendar.php
Please enter any dates that you think important, so we can all remember them. Threads often get lost as new ones appear, so adding to the calender would be great.