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29 January
Visitors are trapped in the Glasgow Tower
04 October
Death of engineer John Rennie the Elder
03 February
Inventor of self-adhesive postage stamps is born
01 July
Naval hero Admiral Adam Duncan is born in Dundee
28 April
Scotland’s last Protestant martyr is burned