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The Tay Bridge disaster
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28th December
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Musician Ricky Ross is born
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22nd December
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First and last editions of comic The Dandy are published
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4th December
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Missionary Mary Slessor is born in Aberdeen
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2nd December
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Tay Bridge designer dies of anxiety
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30th October
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Dundee’s electric light demonstration
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28th October
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Five killed as stalled train and express collide
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22nd October
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First release of Grand Theft Auto
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21st October
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The death of a famously bad poet
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29th September
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V&A Dundee opens its doors
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15th September
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Timex calls time on its Dundee factory
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28th August
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The Tay Road Bridge opens to traffic
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18th August
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Publisher DC Thomson is born
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6th August
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DC Thomson publishes first issue of The Beano
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30th July
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Open University founder Walter Perry dies
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17th July
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Scheduled services start at Dundee Airport
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5th July
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Naval hero Admiral Adam Duncan is born in Dundee
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1st July
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Suffragists interrupt Churchill in Dundee
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25th June
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Scottish spy Jessie Jordan is arrested
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2nd March
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Novelist Rosamunde Pilcher dies in Longforgan
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6th February
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Inventor of self-adhesive postage stamps is born
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3rd February
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The People’s Friend is published for the first time
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13th January
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Britain’s biggest teen magazine launches in Dundee
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11th January
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