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On This Day: 21st of September
On this day in 1867:
Lister publishes the results of his research
Lister published his pioneering article On the antiseptic principle in the practice of surgery in the Lancet.
On this day in 1944:
Removing Air Raid Defences
The Court authorised the removal of the protective brick wall which had been built outside the dining room of the College Club as a war-time air raid precaution.
On this day in 2001:
Princess Royal Opens Weipers Centre
The Princess Royal formally opened the Weipers Centre for Equine Welfare.
Births and Deaths
On this day in 1864
George Service was born.
On this day in 1828
Sir George Husband Baird MacLeod was born.
On this day in 1839
James Mylne died.
On this day in 1974
Christian Fordyce died.
On this day in 1864
Duncan McNeill was born.
On this day in 1865
John Thomson Biernacki was born.
On this day in 1854
John Grieg was born.
On this day in 1870
Bryce MacFarlane was born.
On this day in 1855
John MacPhail was born.
On this day in 1861
Joseph O'Hear was born.
On this day in 1867
John Paterson was born.
On this day in 1868
Alexander Robb Smith was born.
On this day in 1889
William Egon Halman Beard was born.
On this day in 1874
Andrew Bell was born.
On this day in 1870
John Fulson was born.
On this day in 1883
Elias Henry Jones was born.
On this day in 1878
Alexander Leitch was born.
On this day in 1876
David Duncan Fraser Macintyre was born.
On this day in 1974
Katherine MacPhail died.
On this day in 1877
William Nisbet was born.
On this day in 1871
Helen Margaret Rule was born.
On this day in 1870
William Scobie was born.
On this day in 1870
Robert Wallace was born.
On this day in 1891
Alexander Milne was born.
On this day in 1916
Malcolm Kenneth Macleod was born.
On this day in 1891
Robert Menteith Miller was born.
On this day in 1894
Margaret Ferguson Gartshore OBE was born.
On this day in 1897
Edgar Cochrane was born.
On this day in 1998
Edwin Arthur Dixon died.
On this day in 1892
Nabakumar Bose was born.
On this day in 1893
Robina Sibbald Lindsay was born.
On this day in 1891
Alfred Cameron Somerville was born.
On this day in 1894
Margaret Hutchison Glen was born.
On this day in 1896
Margaret Marion McLeod McKechnie was born.
On this day in 1872
Hugh McCartney was born.
On this day in 1899
Muriel Isabelle Jeffrey was born.