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1973 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1973 in Scotland...

Contents

Incumbents

  • Monarch — Elizabeth II
  • Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal — Gordon Campbell

    • Law officers

  • Lord Advocate — Norman Wylie
  • Solicitor General for Scotland — William Stewart

    • Judiciary

  • Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Emslie
  • Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Wheatley
  • Chairman of the Scottish Land Court — Lord Birsay

    • Events

  • 1 January — Most of the west coast shipping services of David MacBrayne are merged with those of the Caledonian Steam Packet Company as Caledonian MacBrayne.
  • 1 March — Dundee East by-election: Labour retains the seat by only 1,141 votes in the face of a strong SNP challenge.
  • May — The Co-operative Group: The Scottish Co-operative (Wholesale) Society Ltd merges into the UK-wide Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd following serious financial mismanagement of the SCWS Bank.
  • 17 July — Stonehouse, South Lanarkshire, is formally designated as a New Town. but never developed.
  • 25 October — Local Government (Scotland) Act initiates a major reorganisation of local government in Scotland with effect from May 1975).
  • 26 October — Firefighters in Glasgow stage a one-day strike following a pay dispute. Troops are drafted in to run the fire stations.
  • 31 October — The Kilbrandon Report is published and recommends the establishment of a directly elected Scottish Assembly.
  • 8 November — Glasgow Govan by-election results in Margo MacDonald of the SNP gaining the seat from Labour on a 26.7% swing. In a second Scottish by election that day, the Conservatives retain Edinburgh North.
  • 14 December — Third (replacement) Bonar Bridge opened.
  • 31 December — Radio Clyde begins broadcasting, from Clydebank.

    • Births

  • 20 January — Stephen Crabb, Welsh Conservative politician
  • 18 March — Patrick Harvie, Green politician
  • 10 May — Dario Franchitti, racing driver
  • 14 May — Fraser Nelson, political journalist
  • 15 September — Alyn Smith, SNP MEP
  • Iain Finlay Macleod, playwright and novelist

    • Deaths

  • 15 January — Neil M. Gunn, novelist, critic, and dramatist (born 1891)
  • 23 September — A. S. Neill, progressive educator and author (born 1883)
  • 8 October — John Rankin, Labour politician (born 1890)
  • 5 December — Robert Watson-Watt, pioneer of radar (born 1892)
  • 30 December
  • D. E. Stevenson (Dorothy Peploe), romantic novelist (born 1892)
  • Vagaland (Thomas Alexander Robertson), Shetland Scots poet (born 1909)
  • Sir William Gillies, painter (born 1898)
  • F. Marian McNeill, folklorist (born 1885)

    • The Arts

  • 31 March — John McGrath's play The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black Black Oil is premiered by 7:84 in Aberdeen.
  • 11 May–8 June - The political thriller Scotch on the Rocks, concerning a terrorist group fighting for Scottish independence in the near future, is broadcast by BBC Scotland.
  • Canongate Books is established as a publisher in Edinburgh.
  • George Mackay Brown's novel Magnus is published.
  • Celtic rock group Runrig formed on Skye.

    • References

    1973 in Scotland Wikipedia
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