1966 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1966 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland
Law officers
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
- 1 February — Heriot-Watt College in Edinburgh is designated Heriot-Watt University.
- 9 February — Construction of a prototype fast breeder nuclear reactor at Dounreay on the north coast of Scotland is announced.[1]
- 28 March — Ballachulish branch railway officially closed; Connel Bridge becomes a road-only crossing.
- 11 April (Easter Monday) — Scottish clearing banks observe today as a bank holiday for the first time, aligning them with those in England.
- May
- Pioneering west coast roll-on/roll-off ferry Isle of Gigha enters service.
- Royal Commission on Local Government in Scotland (chaired by Lord Wheatley) appointed.
- 27 June
- Glasgow Airport officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II.
- Glasgow St Enoch railway station officially closed.[2]
- 18 July — Old Man of Hoy first climbed, by Chris Bonington, Rusty Baillie and Tom Patey.[3][4]
- 18 August — The Tay Road Bridge opens linking Dundee with Fife.
- 29 August — Scottish clearing banks observe this last Monday in August (rather than the first) as a bank holiday for the first time.
- 28 October — First Red Road Flats in Glasgow officially opened.
- 9 November — Irvine is designated as a New Town.
- 11 November — MV Isle of Gigha capsizes on a Gigha–Port Ellen crossing.
- Scottish Grand National first run at Ayr Racecourse.
Births
- March — Jamie Oag, entrepreneur
- 7 August — David Cairns, Scottish Labour politician, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland and MP for Inverclyde (died 2011)
- 20 September — Douglas Gordon, visual artist
- 12 October — Rhona Martin, curler
- 26 October — Steve Valentine, actor
- 8 November — Gordon Ramsay, celebrity chef
- 23 November — Kevin Gallacher, international footballer
- Joanna Cherry, Scottish National Party politician and lawyer
- Laura Hird, fiction writer
Deaths
- 1 January — Alexander Carrick, sculptor (born 1882)
- 16 July — Agnes Dollan, suffragette, political activist and leader of the Glasgow Rent Strikes (born 1887)
- 6 November — Hugh Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of Allander, retailer (born 1903)
- 24 December — Sir Donald MacGillivray, last colonial governor of Malaya (born 1906)
The Arts
- 7 January — School-based television drama series This Man Craig is first screened by BBC Scotland with John Cairney in the title rôle.
- The Bay City Rollers form in Edinburgh.
See also
References
- ↑ "New nuclear reactor for Dounreay". BBC News. 9 February 1966. Archived from the original on 16 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
- ↑ Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1.
- ↑ Crofton, Adrian. "1966 climb: The Old Man of Hoy". A Climb Through History. Mountaineering Council of Scotland. Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 2014-04-09.
- ↑ Thompson, Simon (2011). Unjustifiable Risk?. Milnthorpe: Cicerone Press. p. 231. ISBN 9781849653138.
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