1968 in Scotland

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1968
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Scotland

Centuries:
  • 18th
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  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1940s
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  • 1960s
  • 1970s
  • 1980s
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
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Scottish football: 1967–681968–69
1968 in Scottish television

Events from the year 1968 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

  • Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great SealWillie Ross

Law officers[]

  • Lord AdvocateHenry Wilson
  • Solicitor General for Scotland – Ewan Stewart

Judiciary[]

  • Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice GeneralLord Clyde
  • Lord Justice ClerkLord Grant
  • Chairman of the Scottish Land CourtLord Birsay

Events[]

  • 15 January1968 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 AprilReporting Scotland, BBC Scotland's national television news programme, is broadcast for the first time.
  • 14 MayMurder of Maxwell Garvie: Mariticide in Kincardineshire.[2]
  • 18 MayDeclaration 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 JuneGeneral Post Office introduces the first postbus in Scotland, DunbarInnerwickSpott, East Lothian.
  • 18 NovemberJames 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[]

  • 31 JanuaryJohn Collins, international footballer
  • 16 MarchDavid MacMillan, Scottish-born organic chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  • 26 AprilDaniela Nardini, actress
  • 4 JulyRonni Ancona, comic actress
  • 5 AugustColin McRae, rally driver (killed in helicopter accident 2007)[6]
  • 2 SeptemberDavid Dinsmore, journalist[7]
  • 6 SeptemberChristopher Brookmyre, detective novelist
  • 25 OctoberJason Leitch, National Clinical Director of the Scottish Government
  • 22 NovemberSarah Smith, television and radio news reporter
  • 23 NovemberKirsty Young, television and radio presenter
  • 28 DecemberPauline Robertson, field hockey player
  • Andrew O'Hagan, writer
  • Frank Quitely (Vincent Deighan), comic book artist

Deaths[]

  • 17 FebruaryAlexander Gray, economist, poet and translator (born 1882)
  • 7 AprilJim Clark, racing car driver (born 1936; killed in motor racing accident)
  • 12 SeptemberTommy Armour, golfer (born 1894)
  • 13 NovemberJoe Corrie, miner, poet and playwright (born 1894)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Monday 15 January 1968" (PDF). Met Office. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
  2. ^ "The sins of my mother". The Scotsman. 1 February 2002. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
  3. ^ "Four decades on, Declaration of Perth is still fuelling debate". The Scotsman. 26 February 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  4. ^ "Ordination of women is approved". The Times. No. 57258. London. 23 May 1968. p. 3.
  5. ^ "James Watt Street Fire". SunnyGovan. Archived from the original on 3 June 2010. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
  6. ^ "Colin McRae". The Independent. 17 September 2007. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  7. ^ "Birthdays today: Salma Hayek". The Times. 2 September 2013. Retrieved 21 February 2014. David Dinsmore, editor, The Sun, 45
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