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1971 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1970–71 • 1971–72
1971 in Scottish television

Events from the year 1971 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland
  • Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Gordon Campbell

Law officers[]

  • Lord Advocate – Norman Wylie
  • Solicitor General for Scotland – David Brand

Judiciary[]

  • 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[]

  • 2 January – 1971 Ibrox disaster: a stairway crush at the Rangers vs. Celtic football match at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow kills 66 and leaves many more injured.[1]
  • 10 March – 1971 Scottish soldiers' killings: three young off-duty Royal Highland Fusiliers are lured from a bar in Belfast and shot by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
  • 23 May – "The Unknown Bairn": The drowned body of a young boy is found washed up onshore at Tayport; he is never identified.[2]
  • 25 May – production begins at the Invergordon aluminium works.
  • 15 June – Upper Clyde Shipbuilders enters liquidation.[3]
  • 2 July
    • Royal Scots Dragoon Guards formed as the senior Scottish regiment of the British Army at Holyrood, Edinburgh, by amalgamation of the Royal Scots Greys and 3rd Carabiniers.
    • Erskine Bridge opened over the River Clyde.
  • 30 July – Upper Clyde Shipbuilders workers begin to take control of the shipyards in a work-in under the leadership of Jimmy Reid.[4]
  • c. August – Kyle of Tongue Bridge and causeway opened, replacing a ferry.
  • 16 September – Stirling and Falkirk by-election: Labour retains the seat but the Scottish National Party takes second place with a surge of 20% in their support.
  • 21 October – Clarkston explosion: a gas explosion in Clarkston, East Renfrewshire kills at least twenty people.
  • 22 November – Cairngorm Plateau Disaster: five children and one adult die on the Cairngorm Plateau.[5]
  • 2 December – last resident families leave the island of Scarp.[6]
  • Expansion of Erskine as a planned community begins.
  • Spey Bridge at Aviemore opened.
  • Tom Farmer opens the first Kwik Fit car servicing centre, in Edinburgh.

Births[]

  • 21 January – Alan McManus, snooker player
  • 23 March
    • Kate Dickie, actress
    • Gail Porter, television presenter and model
  • 27 March – David Coulthard, racing driver
  • 31 March – Ewan McGregor, actor
  • 1 April – Karen Dunbar, comedian
  • 5 April – Charles Cumming, espionage novelist
  • 18 April – David Tennant, actor
  • 31 July – Craig MacLean, track cyclist
  • 19 August – Paul McGrillen, footballer (suicide 2009)
  • 30 August – Julian Smith, Conservative politician
  • 6 October – Brian Conaghan, young adult fiction writer
  • 7 October – Aasmah Mir, journalist and presenter
  • 8 October – Michelle Mone, entrepreneur
  • 13 November – Alberto Costa, Conservative politician

Deaths[]

  • 16 June – John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, broadcasting executive (born 1889)
  • 25 June – John Boyd Orr, physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born 1880)
  • 28 August – Edith Hughes, architect (born 1888)
  • 12 December
    • Torrance Gillick, Rangers F.C. winger (born 1915)
    • Alan Morton, Rangers outside left (born 1893)
  • 22 December – D. Alan Stevenson, lighthouse engineer and philatelist (born 1891)

The arts[]

  • 26 March – BBC Scotland television begins a serialisation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song, starring Vivien Heilbron.
  • 18 November – Stewart Conn's play The Burning, concerning King James VI of Scotland, premieres.
  • Douglas Hurd and Andrew Osmond's political thriller Scotch on the Rocks, concerning a terrorist group fighting for Scottish independence in the near future, is published by Collins.
  • English composer Peter Maxwell Davies settles in Orkney, initially on Hoy.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "1971: Sixty-six die in Scottish football disaster". BBC News. 2 January 1971. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
  2. ^ "Tayport remembers 'The Unknown Bairn' 40 years after his body was found on beach". The Courier. Dundee. 23 May 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  3. ^ "Provisional liquidator is appointed for Upper Clyde Shipbuilders". The Times. No. 58200. London. 16 June 1971. p. 18.
  4. ^ Murray, Ian (31 July 1971). "Workers seize control of shipyard on the Clyde". The Times. No. 58238. London. p. 1.
  5. ^ "1971: Six dead in Scottish mountain tragedy". BBC News. 22 November 1971. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
  6. ^ "The Lost Islands". Stornoway: Comhairle nan Eilean Siar. 29 August 2013. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
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