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Event	Date
Royal Bank of Scotland invents the overdraft	31st May
Tearoom founder Catherine Cranston is born in Glasgow	27th May
Lord Leverhulme buys the Isle of Lewis	19th May
Tea magnate Thomas Lipton is born	10th May
Jenners opens on Princes Street	1st May
Biscuit king Robert McVitie is born	29th March
Captain Alexander Allan dies in Glasgow	18th March
Sir Walter Scott’s first Malachai Malagrowther letter appears in print	22nd February
France tries again after Scottish bank collapse	18th January

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11 November

Scottish spy James Bond is born

20 August

Cartoonist Dudley D Watkins dies in Broughty Ferry

23 August

William Wallace is brutally executed

27 September

The Queen Mother unveils the Commando Monument

31 March

Edinburgh architect Robert Morham is born