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Henry McLeish resigned as Scotlands First Minister

Author Neil M Gunn, born in Caithness Scotland

Birth of Sir Arnold Bax, composer, writer and Hibernophile

Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, born in Dublin

Charles Stuart invades England at the head of the Jacobite Army

Allan Ramsay's First regular public theatre in Scotland opened in Carrubbers Close, Edinburgh

John Duns Scotus, scholar and philosopher, died