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January 17 in Scottish History

Today in 1795 Duddingston Curling Society became the first curling club in the world to be formally organised. Membership of the club cost three guineas and it soon attracted the country's top curlers. Members who did not wear the club's badge while on the ice were subject to a fine. The club laid out the rules of the sport in 1803 including fines for 'uttering oaths and introducing a political subject into conversation'.

January 17 1761 marks the birth of Sir James Hall, the Scottish geologist. He is known as the "father of experimental geology" due to his laboratory experiments, designed to show how the rocks on the Earth's surface were formed by intense heat from the planet's core.