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On This Day: 28th of July
On this day in 1870:
Leaving High Street
The Senate met for the last time at the Old College buildings in High Street.
On this day in 1909:
First powered flight in Scotland
The Barnwell brothers successfully flew their car engine powered biplane at Causwayhead in Stirling.
Births and Deaths
On this day in 1508
Robert Blackadder died.
On this day in 1920
Rodney Hirst was born.
On this day in 1866
James Muir Grieve was born.
On this day in 1871
Malcolm McColl was born.
On this day in 1863
Hugh Miller McHoul was born.
On this day in 1864
John MacPhail was born.
On this day in 1873
John Neil Robertson was born.
On this day in 1865
John Dickson Sinclair was born.
On this day in 1883
Forrest Brechin was born.
On this day in 1872
William Robert Dow was born.
On this day in 1879
Alexander Linn was born.
On this day in 1877
Murdoch McIver was born.
On this day in 1872
Alexander Robert Moir was born.
On this day in 1881
Macdonald Munro was born.
On this day in 1885
Robert Macnair Walker was born.
On this day in 1868
George Baird Wishart was born.
On this day in 1891
Agnes Wilson was born.
On this day in 1890
David Innes Byers was born.
On this day in 1889
Jeanie Russell Williamson Stewart was born.
On this day in 1891
Donald McGavin Kerr McKay was born.
On this day in 1869
William McKean died.
On this day in 1889
Walter Weir Galbraith was born.
On this day in 1893
William Macleod was born.
On this day in 1988
Baron Wheatley died.
On this day in 1898
Stewart Walter Cox was born.