• in July 1530, Clan Forbes attacked Aberdeen?
• Aberdeen's Northern Co-operative Society declared a loss of £7 million in 1992, and, unable to recover, went into receivership, bringing to an end a 132-year-old business?

Facts on topics related to Aberdeen

Glasgow

• Glasgow's Wellington Church was founded in 1792 as an Anti-Burgher congregation?
• Bud Neill was a Scottish newspaper cartoonist whose best loved strip was set in "Calton Creek", a fictional Arizona outpost of the wild west populated with Glaswegians, including Sherriff "Lobey Dosser" who rode a two-legged horse?
• Clyde Fastlink, a planned £42m dedicated bus service, is an interim measure for Glasgow's proposed light rail system?
• Clyde Tunnel in Glasgow was built rather than a bridge to not interfere with shipping, a concern which was out of date by the tunnel's completion?
• Greenbank Gardens near Glasgow, Scotland were built by Robert Allason, a slave trader?
• a Glasgow-born railway engineer, John Harley, was responsible for revolutionizing the way Uruguay played football?
• in 1865, Dr Edward William Pritchard, who poisoned his wife and mother-in-law, became the last person to be publicly executed in Glasgow?
• in 1998, a study proposed to relocate Jordanhill railway station, a station currently located in Glasgow, Scotland near the Jordanhill Campus of the University of Strathclyde and the Jordanhill School that opened in 1887?
  
• the Cheapside Street Whisky Bond Fire in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1960 was (and remains) the worst peace time loss of life for the United Kingdom fire services?
• the Willow Tearooms, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, is the most famous of many new Glasgow tearooms opened in the early 20th century due to the emergence of the Temperance movement ?

Dundee

• Thomas de Dundee, later Bishop of Ross, was one of three men from the small Scottish burgh of Dundee studying Roman law at the University of Bologna at the same time in the later 13th century?
• the bear kept in Camperdown Country Park, the largest park in Dundee, bit the arm off a 10-year-old boy?

Edinburgh

• Scottish and British Lions rugby captain David Bedell-Sivright is said to have rugby tackled a cart horse in Edinburgh's Princes Street?
• Gladstone's Land (pictured) is a restored six-storey-high tenement building, built in 1550, and situated on Edinburgh's Royal Mile?
• Hibernian Park hosted the first football international match played in Edinburgh, Scotland?
• Kirk o' Field (pictured) in Edinburgh was the location of one of the world's great unsolved historical mysteries, the murder of Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary Queen of Scots, in 1567?
• Melissa Anelli and Emerson Spartz, webmasters for Harry Potter fansites, were the only Americans invited to Edinburgh to interview J.K. Rowling the day after the Half-Blood Prince was released?
• Sir Walter Scott of Branxholme and Buccleuch, chief of Clan Scott, survived the Battles of Flodden and Pinkie Cleugh only to be murdered in the High Street of Edinburgh in 1552?
• an Edinburgh judge and Member of Parliament had his wife, Lady Grange (pictured), kidnapped and effectively imprisoned for 13 years in remote parts of western Scotland?
• during engineering work in 1979, the collapse of the Penmanshiel Tunnel severed the main railway line between London and Edinburgh for five months?
• the 1687 diary of Edinburgh medical student Thomas Kincaid records the earliest known golfing instructions?
• the Edinburgh publisher, James Donaldson, bequeathed the funds for Donaldson's Hospital?

Belfast

• Belfast streetfighter "Buck Alec" Robinson kept two lions at his home, frequently walking them on the streets of the city?
• RAOC officer George Styles was awarded the George Cross in 1972 for defusing booby-trapped bombs planted by terrorists in Northern Ireland, including two bombs left at the Europa Hotel in Belfast within a matter of days?
• Irish architect Thomas Duff designed St. Patrick's School in Belfast, believed to be the city's last surviving gothic building?
• almost 60% of Belfast's adult population regularly participate in one or more sports?
• historian J. Bowyer Bell was tear gassed in Belfast, held hostage in Jordan, shot at in Lebanon, kidnapped in Yemen and deported from Kenya?
• playwright Sam Thompson's Over the Bridge about Northern Irish sectarian violence became Belfast's most-seen play despite a prediction it would "offend and affront every section of the public"?
• when the RMS Titanic was built in Belfast in 1912, the largest shipyard in the world was in Belfast?

Cardiff

• after running aground at Sharpness, SS Stancliffe was cut into two separate sections and then sailed to Cardiff, Wales, in 1947?
• at age 14 Amy Evans (pictured), a Welsh singer and actress, won the Welsh National Eisteddfod in Cardiff?
• the 74,500 capacity Millennium Stadium (pictured), Cardiff, "an icon of the modern Wales", is wholly owned by the Welsh Rugby Union, one of the governing bodies of sports in Wales?
• the Swaminarayan temple in Cardiff replaced a synagogue when it opened in 1982 and then an Irish club when it moved in 1993?

Manchester

• Wilmslow Road in Manchester is reputed to have the busiest bus corridor in Europe?
• Carrington Moss was used to dispose of Manchester's night soil, and was a Starfish site in World War II?
• Chetham's Library in Manchester, England is the oldest public library in the English-speaking world?
• Cine City in Manchester, England, the third cinema to open in England in 1912 as "The Scala", has recently been demolished?
• Hulme Arch Bridge in Manchester (pictured) follows the design of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, and rejoins two halves of a road that was sundered in 1969?
• Ivory Williams competed against Usain Bolt in a 150-metre street race as part of the Great City Games in Manchester, England?
• Wythenshawe Aerodrome was Manchester's first purpose-built municipal airfield, but was closed after one year due to the completion of Barton Aerodrome?
• Peel Park in England was the first of three public parks to be opened for the people of Manchester and Salford in 1846?
• Platt Fields Park in Manchester, England, was used as a country park for over 400 years before being converted for public use in 1908–1910?
• The Old Wellington Inn in Manchester has been in three different locations in its 458-year history?