‘arbroath’

Event	Date
Elliot Junction rail accident kills 22 and injures 24	28th December
Helicopter collides with Bell Rock lighthouse	15th December
Buick Motor Company founder is born	17th September
Waterbed inventor is born in Arbroath	15th May
Declaration of Arbroath asserts Scotland’s independence	6th April
Inventor of self-adhesive postage stamps is born	3rd February
Bell Rock lighthouse is lit for the first time	1st February

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06 August

Publisher DC Thomson is born

08 September

John Porteous isn’t executed as he’s already dead

04 October

Death of engineer John Rennie the Elder