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On This Day: 6th of November
On this day in 1940:
Breakfast for the Fire Patrols
The Court's Works Committee agreed to pay for breakfast for members of the Volunteer Fire Patrol at the University, at a cost of no more than 1 shilling and sixpence (7.5p) per head.
On this day in 1964:
Queen Margaret Hall 
The new Queen Margaret Hall of Residence was opened in Bellshaugh Road, Kelvindale.
Births and Deaths
On this day in 1479
Sir James Hamilton 1st Baron Hamilton died.
On this day in 1868
William Goudie was born.
On this day in 1884
Henry Fawcett died.
On this day in 1934
James Gray died.
On this day in 1888
Peter Stewart Allan was born.
On this day in 1866
Archibald Campbell was born.
On this day in 1770
Gedney Clark Bispham was born.
On this day in 1870
Frank Stanley Young was born.
On this day in 1870
Samuel Donaldson Cowan was born.
On this day in 1856
Ramsay Hunter was born.
On this day in 1865
Sir William Boog Leishman was born.
On this day in 1876
James Marr was born.
On this day in 1862
John Ritchie was born.
On this day in 1933
Lewis Robertson Sutherland died.
On this day in 1867
Peter Thomson was born.
On this day in 1869
Frederick Henry Waddy was born.
On this day in 1967
Douglas Kinchin Adams died.
On this day in 1885
Bruce Beveridge Blackwood was born.
On this day in 1882
Allan Campbell Douglas was born.
On this day in 1871
Robert Douglas was born.
On this day in 1880
Ida Macgregor Gordon was born.
On this day in 1882
John Isdale Greig was born.
On this day in 1881
William Howat was born.
On this day in 1874
Archibald Jubb was born.
On this day in 1884
Malcolm Glen Kidston was born.
On this day in 1881
John Alexander McCrindle was born.
On this day in 1877
Robert McEwan was born.
On this day in 1879
John Morison was born.
On this day in 1871
William Shedden was born.
On this day in 1885
James Struthers was born.
On this day in 1878
Alexander Wilson was born.
On this day in 1890
Euphemia Gardiner Nimmo was born.
On this day in 1886
William Fraser was born.
On this day in 1889
Alessandro Rietti was born.
On this day in 1779
Andrew Wedderburn was born.
On this day in 1892
Georgina Duncan Williamson Scott was born.
On this day in 1892
David Wright Struthers was born.
On this day in 1886
John Cuthbertson Walker was born.
On this day in 1893
Catherine Forsyth Davidson was born.
On this day in 1892
Mary MacCorquodale Fraser was born.
On this day in 1893
Douglas Bower McIntosh was born.
On this day in 1896
David William Hammond was born.
On this day in 1927
John MacVicar was born.