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1968 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1968 in Scotland.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Monarch — Elizabeth II
  • Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal — Willie Ross

    • Law officers

  • Lord Advocate — Henry Wilson
  • Solicitor General for Scotland — Ewan Stewart

    • 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

  • 15 January — 1968 Scotland storm ("Great Glasgow storm") leaves 20 dead across central Scotland including 9 in Glasgow.
  • 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.
  • March — Cables Wynd House ("Banana Flats") completed in Leith.
  • 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.
  • 18 May — Declaration of Perth: UK Conservative party leader, Edward Heath proposes a directly elected Scottish Assembly.
  • 22 May — The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland permits the ordination of women as ministers.
  • 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.
  • Bluevale and Whitevale Towers, 298 ft (90.8 m) blocks of flats, completed in Glasgow.

    • Births

  • 31 January — John Collins, international footballer
  • 26 April — Daniela Nardini, actress
  • 4 July — Ronni Ancona, comic actress
  • 5 August — Colin McRae, rally driver (killed in helicopter accident 2007)
  • 23 November — Kirsty Young, television and radio presenter
  • 28 December — Pauline Robertson, field hockey player

    • Deaths

  • 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)

    • References

    1968 in Scotland Wikipedia
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