1968 in Scotland
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See also: | List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1968 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1967–68 • 1968–69 1968 in Scottish television |
Events from the year 1968 in Scotland.
Incumbents
[edit]Law officers
[edit]- Lord Advocate – Henry Wilson
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Ewan Stewart
Judiciary
[edit]- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grant
- Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Birsay
Events
[edit]- 15 January – 1968 Scotland storm ("Great Glasgow storm") leaves 20 dead across central Scotland including 9 in Glasgow.[1]
- February – Upper Clyde Shipbuilders formed with 48.4% government holding by amalgamation of Fairfields, Govan; Alexander Stephen & Sons, Linthouse; John Brown & Company, Clydebank; Charles Connell and Company, Scotstoun; and Yarrow Shipbuilders.
- 1 April – Reporting Scotland, BBC Scotland's national television news programme, is broadcast for the first time.
- 14 May – Murder of Maxwell Garvie: Mariticide in Kincardineshire.[2]
- 18 May – Declaration of Perth: Conservative Party leader, Edward Heath proposes a directly elected Scottish Assembly.[3]
- 22 May – The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland permits the ordination of women as ministers.[4]
- 4 June – General Post Office introduces the first postbus in Scotland, Dunbar–Innerwick–Spott, East Lothian.
- 18 November – James Watt Street fire: A warehouse fire in Glasgow kills 22.[5]
- Bluevale and Whitevale Towers, 298 ft (90.8 m) blocks of flats, completed in Glasgow.
Births
[edit]- 31 January – John Collins, international footballer
- 16 March – David MacMillan, Scottish-born organic chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 26 April – Daniela Nardini, actress
- 4 July – Ronni Ancona, comic actress
- 5 August – Colin McRae, rally driver (killed in helicopter accident 2007)[6]
- 2 September – David Dinsmore, journalist[7]
- 6 September – Christopher Brookmyre, detective novelist
- 25 October – Jason Leitch, National Clinical Director of the Scottish Government
- 22 November – Sarah Smith, television and radio news reporter
- 23 November – Kirsty Young, television and radio presenter
- 28 December – Pauline Robertson, field hockey player
- Andrew O'Hagan, writer
- Frank Quitely (Vincent Deighan), comic book artist
Deaths
[edit]- 17 February – Alexander Gray, economist, poet and translator (born 1882)
- 7 April – Jim Clark, racing car driver (born 1936; killed in motor racing accident)
- 12 September – Tommy Armour, golfer (born 1894)
- 13 November – Joe Corrie, miner, poet and playwright (born 1894)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Monday 15 January 1968" (PDF). Met Office. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
- ^ "The sins of my mother". The Scotsman. 1 February 2002. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
- ^ "Four decades on, Declaration of Perth is still fuelling debate". The Scotsman. 26 February 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
- ^ "Ordination of women is approved". The Times. No. 57258. London. 23 May 1968. p. 3.
- ^ "James Watt Street Fire". SunnyGovan. Archived from the original on 3 June 2010. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
- ^ "Colin McRae". The Independent. 17 September 2007. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Birthdays today: Salma Hayek". The Times. 2 September 2013. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
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