The Open was initially restricted to professional golfers, with a prize of a red Moroccan leather belt with a silver buckle awaiting the victor.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The light cruiser HMS Southampton and the destroyer Mohawk were damaged, while sixteen Royal Navy sailors died and 44 were injured.
The royal Exchequer Rolls from Scotland recorded the first known written reference to Scotch whisky.
The Stone of Scone was found on the site of the High Altar at Arbroath Abbey, nearly four months after it disappeared from Westminster Abbey.
Robert I, better known as Robert the Bruce, was crowned King of Scots at Scone.
Andrew Watson’s father, Peter Miller Watson, was the manager of a sugar plantation in British Guiana while his mother was a local woman called Anna (or Hannah) Rose.
The English arranged carts containing barrels of herring into a defensive wagon fort, with sharpened stakes similar to those used at the Battle of Agincourt positioned around the perimeter.
Scottish independence leader Sir William Wallace was captured by English forces at Robroyston near Glasgow.
James was the only son of Mary, Queen of Scots, who was forced to abdicate in favour of her young son a month after she was imprisoned.
The Labour government of Clement Atlee won the first post-war election with a pledge to implement the recommendations of the 1942 Beveridge Report and improve the social welfare system in Britain.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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