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11 August
Formal opening of the West Highland Railway
03 February
Inventor of self-adhesive postage stamps is born
16 June
Muirfield golf course designer Old Tom Morris is born
25 January
Poet Robert Burns is born in Ayrshire
04 September
Queen Elizabeth II opens the Forth Road Bridge
