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Saints
and other notable days in June
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1st
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St Peter of
Pisa, founder of
the hermits of St Jerome.
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2nd |
James Douglas,
Earl of
Morton executed in Edinburgh 1581. His head was severed from his
body by a precursor of the Guillotine called "The
Maiden", which he had seen used in Halifax and had then
introduced into Scotland. The instrument appears to have been in
frequent use in Halifax, anybody convicted of stealing an article
valued at more than thirteen and a half pence being sentanced to
die by it. This is the origin of the saying "From Hell, Hull
and Halifax, good Lord deliver us".
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King
Ethelbert, King of the
Saxons christened by St Augustine 597
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4th |
George III born 1738. There
existed in Edinburgh both during and for some time after George's
reign, a "Fourth of June Club" whose aim and purpose was
to "meet, dine and drink to his amiable memory".
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5th |
St
Boniface, apostle of
Germany, Martyr 755
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7th
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Robert
Bruce, King of Scots
died at Cardross Castle 1429.
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Gordon Riots 1780
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8th
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Mohammed died 632
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Pius IX in 1862 cannonised
23 Missionaries to Japan who were martyred in the 17th Cy.
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St
William, Archbishop of
York, Confessor, 1154.
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Thomas Paine died Baltimore
1809
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9th
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St
Columba, Abbot and
Apostle to the Picts 597
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10th
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James, Prince of
Wales, born 1688 in Edinburgh Castle (the Old
Pretender)
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11th
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St
Barnabas, the Apostle,
1st Cy. Commonly known as 'Barnaby's Day'
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Roger Bacon died at Oxford
1294.
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Sir John Franklin died 1847
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12th
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St
Ternan, Bishop of the
Picts, Confessor, 5th Cy.
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James III of Scotland died
near Bannockburn 1488.
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13th
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St Anthony of Padua (famed
for preaching to the fishes) Known in Italy and revered as
"Il Santo" 1231
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14th
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St Basil the
Great,
Archbishop of Caesarea, Confessor 379.
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15th
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Wat Tyler
killed at Smithfield
1381
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Francis Pilat de Rosier was
killed on this day 1785 on falling from his balloon near Boulogne.
The first air accident, unless
you count Icarus
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16th
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John Churchill, First
Duke of
Marlborough, died 1722
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17th
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John Wesley born 1703
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Battle of Bunker Hill in
which 1,500 Yankee irregulars gave a salutary lesson to over 3,000
veteran British troops, backed up by the cannon of several men of
war.
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18th
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Caliph Othman assassinated
at Medina 655
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Battle of Waterloo 1815
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19th |
The "Fete Dieu",
the Catholic celebration of the "Name of God". This
takes the form of great processions throughout Catholic Europe
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James VI of Scotland born
1566 at Edinburgh Castle.
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Magna Carta 1215
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21st
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St Eusebius of Samosata.
Martyr 379 or 380
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On this day in 1611, Henry
Hudson and the men loyal to him were set adrift by
mutineers in Hudson's Bay,
aboard a small boat without provisions. They were never seen
again
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