On this day in history - 24th October

 

On 24 October 1328, the 1st Earl of Angus married

 John STEWART, 1st Earl of Angus married Margaret de ABERNETHY. She was the heiress of the Earl of Angus. He was a descendant of the 4th High Steward of Scotland of the Stewarts of Bonkyl. Their granddaughter, Margaret, would in her turn become the heiress of Angus. She had an affair with William Douglas, the 1st Earl of Douglas. Their child, George, would become the 1st Douglas Earl of Angus and the founder of the Red Douglases who would become the dominant family of nobles in in Scotland during the Tudor dynasty of England.

This is the coat of arms he adopted after he became Earl of Angus. It shows the arms of the Stewarts of Bonkyl (Notice the bend with the three buckles) quartered with the arms of Abernethy.

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1360 – The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
1590 – John White, the governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists.
1641 – Felim O'Neill of Kinard, the leader of the Irish Rebellion, issues his Proclamation of Dungannon, justifying the uprising and declaring continued loyalty to King Charles I of England.
1648 – The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War.
1795 – Poland is completely consumed by Russia, Prussia and Austria.
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow.
1861 – The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed.
1902 – Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
1911 – Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
1912 – First Balkan War: The Battles of Kirk Kilisse and Kumanovo conclude with a Bulgarian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
1917 – World War I: Italy suffers a disastrous defeat on the Austro-Italian front.
1929 – "Black Thursday" on the New York Stock Exchange.
1930 – A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ends the First Republic, replacing it with the Vargas Era.
1944 – World War II: Japan's center force is temporarily repulsed in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
1945 – The United Nations Charter comes into effect.
1946 – A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
1954 – President Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam.
1956 – At the request of the Stalinist regime of Ernő Gerő, a massive Soviet force invades Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution. Imre Nagy is reinstalled as Prime Minister.
1964 – Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes Zambia.[8]
1980 – The government of Poland legalizes the Solidarity trade union.
1990 – Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian NATO force formed in 1956, intended to be activated in the event of a Warsaw Pact invasion.
2003 – Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
2005 – Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in Florida, resulting in 35 direct and 26 indirect fatalities and causing $20.6B USD in damage.
2008 – "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.

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