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On This Day: 30th of September
On this day in 1910:
Retirement of William Stewart
William Stewart (1835-1919) retired as Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism.
On this day in 1929:
BBC transmits its first experimental television broadcast
This transmission used John Logie Baird's 30 line system.
On this day in 1968:
University Library Opens
The new University Library was opened to readers. The old library in the Gilbert Scott Building had closed in July 1968.
On this day in 1975:
KDF9 Closed Down
The University's KDF9 computer was closed down, after it had been replaced by the ICL 1906S.
Births and Deaths
On this day in 1930
Sir Frederick Edwin Smith 1st Earl of Birkenhead died.
On this day in 1882
Theodora Keith was born.
On this day in 1843
Sir Hector Clare Cameron was born.
On this day in 2012
Robert Ferrier died.
On this day in 1899
Thomas Alty was born.
On this day in 1928
Noel Paton died.
On this day in 1985
Helen McInnes died.
On this day in 1934
Sir John Adams died.
On this day in 1864
William Gunn Galbraith was born.
On this day in 1864
David Lloyd was born.
On this day in 1870
Hugh McLaren was born.
On this day in 1863
William Rankine Paton was born.
On this day in 1873
John Wallace was born.
On this day in 1875
John Young was born.
On this day in 1884
John Carrick Andrew was born.
On this day in 1967
Margaret Ellen Buchanan died.
On this day in 1884
John Alexander Kerr was born.
On this day in 1884
William McMinn was born.
On this day in 1887
David Miller was born.
On this day in 1886
Arthur Ford Stewart was born.
On this day in 1889
Ebenezer Bennett Stocks was born.
On this day in 1832
Lord Frederick Sleigh Roberts Field Marshall The Rt. Hon. Earl of Kandahar, Pretoria, and Waterford was born.
On this day in 1888
Margaret Agnew Monteith was born.
On this day in 1967
Margaret Ellen Buchanan died.
On this day in 1916
Robert Hood Brechin died.
On this day in 1888
Frederick William McMillar was born.
On this day in 1890
John Macpherson was born.
On this day in 1893
Margaret McCubbin Millar was born.
On this day in 1896
Isabella Agnes Blair MacFarlane was born.
On this day in 1893
Janet McMurdo was born.
On this day in 1891
James Moffat was born.