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08 March
Oor Wullie makes his first appearance in print
11 December
Royal Yacht Britannia is retired to Edinburgh
28 August
University of St Andrews is established by a Papal Bull
03 February
Inventor of self-adhesive postage stamps is born
16 June
Muirfield golf course designer Old Tom Morris is born