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On This Day: 6th of May
On this day in 1817:
The first CM
The University awarded the degree of CM for the first time. The recipients were John Towers, Regius Professor of Midwifery, and John Burns, Regius Professor of Surgery.
Births and Deaths
On this day in 1961
George Pryde died.
On this day in 1948
Joe Thomson was born.
On this day in 2011
Gordon Kirby died.
On this day in 1865
James Crawford Gibb MacNab was born.
On this day in 1865
Robert Robertson Kilpatrick was born.
On this day in 1873
Charles Hendry Lumsden was born.
On this day in 1872
Robert George Nisbet was born.
On this day in 1853
Robert Wallace was born.
On this day in 1871
William Young was born.
On this day in 1882
Andrew Blair Aitken was born.
On this day in 1889
David Campbell was born.
On this day in 1875
James Hair was born.
On this day in 1880
John Thornhill Hair was born.
On this day in 1884
Francis William MacKichan was born.
On this day in 1881
Donald Macphie was born.
On this day in 1887
Malcolm Manson was born.
On this day in 1884
Isabella McPhail Murdoch was born.
On this day in 1875
Walter Mundell Paterson was born.
On this day in 1885
Guy Alexander Peck was born.
On this day in 1889
Edward Aloysius Riordan was born.
On this day in 1887
Frank Lesley Robertson was born.
On this day in 1872
David Ap Simon was born.
On this day in 1886
Robert Sneddon was born.
On this day in 1886
Gustav Wright Steen was born.
On this day in 1880
Alexander Mill White was born.
On this day in 1890
Elizabeth Scott McCardel was born.
On this day in 1885
Fop Smit was born.
On this day in 1892
Donald Crawford was born.
On this day in 1986
Lydia Ida Huber Torrance Allen died.
On this day in 1891
Archibald Fullarton Boag was born.
On this day in 1891
Alastair Caulfield Jebb was born.
On this day in 1891
Susan Hope Lucas was born.
On this day in 1891
Susan Fassiefern Mitchell was born.
On this day in 1893
Dorothy Harper Cowie was born.
On this day in 1894
Agnes Annie Raffan was born.
On this day in 1896
John Haddow Young was born.
On this day in 1894
Jacob Joels was born.