|
Jun24
|
1992 |
Steel making in
Scotland ended with the last production shift at the Ravenscraig steel
works in Motherwell |
| 1314 |
Robert the Bruce
defeated the English at the Battle of Bannockburn |
|
25
|
1988 |
David
Galloway and Andrew Muirhead sheared 706 sheep in 9 hours at
Lesmahagow, Strathclyde |
|
26
|
1960 |
Madagascar became independent
|
 |
|
1959
|
The
St Lawrence Seaway was officially opened by Elizabeth II and
President Eisenhower |
|
27
|
1787 |
Edward Gibbon finished writing "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
|
 |
| 1743 |
George II, the last British monarch to command their army in the field,
defeated the French at the battle of Dettingen |
|
28
|
2001 |
Comic actress Joan Sims
died |
 |
1914 |
Gavrillo
Princip assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife at
Sarajevo |
| 1838 |
Queen
Victoria was crowned |
|
29
|
1966 |
Barclays Bank launched Barclaycard
- the first British credit card |
|
Jun30
|
1980 |
Vigdis
Finnbogadottir was elected President of Iceland - the first
democratically elected female head of state |
 |
| 1991 |
The last five
Shackleton aircraft were withdrawn from service with the RAF |
