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Events from the year 1994 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 – Ian Lang

Law officers[]

  • Lord Advocate – Lord Rodger of Earlsferry
  • Solicitor General for Scotland – Thomas Dawson

Judiciary[]

  • Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Hope
  • Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Ross
  • Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Philip

Events[]

  • March – Strathclyde water referendum indicates overwhelming opposition to the privatisation of water.
  • 5 May – elections are held for Scotland's Regional Councils.
  • 19 May – Robert Black, jailed for life four years ago for abducting a seven-year-old girl in the Scottish Borders, is found guilty of murdering three girls in the 1980s and sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended minimum term of 35 years. Black later dies in HMP Maghaberry in Northern Ireland of a heart attack in January 2016.
  • 25 April – Dundee Institute of Technology elevated to the status of Abertay University.
  • 2 June – Chinook crash on Mull of Kintyre: An RAF Chinook helicopter carrying more than twenty leading intelligence experts crashes on the Mull of Kintyre, killing everyone on board.[1]
  • 9 June – European elections result in Labour winning six of Scotland's eight MEPs, with the SNP winning the other two.
  • 25 June – The Greenock rail accident, caused by vandals placing concrete blocks on the rails, kills two people.
  • 30 June – Monklands East by-election results in the Labour Party retaining the seat despite a swing of 19.2% to the SNP.
  • 3 November – The Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, that will reorganise local government by creating 32 unitary authorities, receives royal assent.
  • Dounreay nuclear power plant comes offline.
  • Highland Theological Institute established in Dingwall.

Births[]

  • 1 January – Craig Murray, footballer
  • 14 January – Ross Murdoch, swimmer
  • 8 March – Claire Emslie, footballer[2]
  • 11 March - Andrew Robertson, footballer
  • 12 March – Katie Archibald, cyclist[3]
  • 23 March – Jack Hamilton, goalkeeper
  • 10 April – Siobhan Hunter, footballer[4]
  • 29 April – Stephen Milne, swimmer
  • 24 May – Emily Nicholl, netball player[5]
  • 11 July – Jake Wightman, middle-distance runner
  • 30 August – Jo Muir, modern pentathlete[6]
  • 12 September – Mhairi Black, SNP MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South

Deaths[]

  • 3 January – Marion Ross, physicist (born 1903)[7]
  • 12 May – John Smith, leader of the Labour Party (UK) (born 1938)
  • 6 June – Mark McManus, film and television actor (born 1935)
  • 14 June – Denys Hay, historian (born 1915 in England)
  • Rhoda Bulter, poet (born 1929)

Arts and literature[]

  • 9 May – release of Scottish group Wet Wet Wet's cover of the song Love Is All Around (1967), as featured in the recently released film Four Weddings and a Funeral. From 29 May it will spend 15 consecutive weeks at number one in the UK Singles Chart, the longest spell ever attained by a British act.[8]
  • June – the old Empire Palace Theatre in Edinburgh reopens permanently as the Edinburgh Festival Theatre.
  • 23 August – K Foundation enact K Foundation Burn a Million Quid on the Ardfin Estate on Jura.
  • August – Theresa Breslin's young adult novel Whispers in the Graveyard is published.
  • James Kelman's stream of consciousness novel How Late It Was, How Late, written in Glasgow patter, is published.
  • Alternative rock band Snow Patrol is formed by students from Northern Ireland at the University of Dundee.[9]

See also[]

  • 1994 in England
  • 1994 in Northern Ireland
  • 1994 in Wales

References[]

  1. ^ "MI5 officers killed in helicopter crash". BBC News. 2 June 1994. Retrieved 28 January 2008.
  2. ^ "Orlando Pride Sign Scotland Women's National Team Forward Claire Emslie". Orlando City. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Cycling Track | Athlete Profile: Katie ARCHIBALD - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games". results.gc2018.com. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  4. ^ "Siobhan Hunter - Player Profile - Football". Eurosport UK. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  5. ^ "Emily Nicholl". Team Scotland. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  6. ^ "Modern Pentathlon MUIR Joanna - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". olympics.com. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  7. ^ "Marion Ross (1903-1994)". National Records of Scotland. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  8. ^ Dadds, Kimberley (19 July 2007). "The UK's longest-running chart toppers". Digital Spy. Archived from the original on 10 November 2010. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
  9. ^ "Ice cool band warms hearts". Northern Ireland: BBC. 29 March 2004. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
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