1958 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1958 in Scotland.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Elizabeth II
- Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – John Maclay
Law officers
- Lord Advocate – William Rankine Milligan
- Solicitor General for Scotland – William Grant
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Thomson
- Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Gibson
Events
- 13 March – Glasgow Kelvingrove by-election results in a Labour gain from the Conservatives
- May – nuclear development: Dounreay materials test reactor achieves criticality
- 3 May – Aberdeen Corporation Tramways last operate, leaving Glasgow as the only system in Scotland
- 20 May – railway collision at Arklestone Junction, Paisley; 97 injured[1]
- 7 June – Ian Donald publishes an article in The Lancet describing the diagnostic use of ultrasound in obstetrics as pioneered in Glasgow[2]
- 4 July – St Ninian's Isle Treasure discovered in Shetland by schoolboy Douglas Coutts
- 11 July – Peter Manuel hanged at HM Prison Barlinnie for at least seven murders
- 18 August – Regional postage stamps of Great Britain are first issued
- 1 September – first of the 'Cod Wars' between the U.K. and Iceland over fishing rights breaks out
- 15 September – British Railways railbuses introduced on Gleneagles–Crieff–Comrie line[3]
- 19 September – John Duncan Mackie is appointed Historiographer Royal
- October – Thurso High School opened
- 21 November – construction of the Forth Road Bridge begins[4]
- 5 December – Subscriber trunk dialling (STD) is inaugurated on the U.K. telephone network when The Queen dials a call from Bristol to Edinburgh and speaks to the Lord Provost[5]
- 25 December – Christmas Day is a public holiday in Scotland for the first time[6]
- Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles on South Ronaldsay in Orkney first explored by Ronald Simison
Births
- 9 February – Sandy Lyle, golfer
- 22 February – Gordon Kennedy, actor
- 14 April – Peter Capaldi, screen actor
- 25 April – Fish (Derek William Dick), neo-progressive rock singer
- 26 April – John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute (John Bute or Johnny Dumfries), racing driver
- 3 June – Cameron Sharp, sprinter
- 17 May – Alan Rankine, musician and producer
- 2 August – Elaine C. Smith, comic actress
- 17 August – Fred Goodwin, banker
- 30 August – Muriel Gray, broadcaster
- 20 September – Maureen Baker, physician
- 27 September – Irvine Welsh, novelist, playwright and short story writer
- Harry Ritchie, writer and journalist
- James Robertson, writer
Deaths
- 8 January – Walter Elliot, Scottish Unionist Party MP (born 1888)
- 29 March – Sir William Burrell, shipowner and art collector (born 1861)
- 2 April – Mary Barbour, political activist, local councillor and magistrate (born 1875)
- 3 September – Norman Kemp Smith, philosopher (born 1872)
- 19 September – Sir John Dick-Lauder, 11th Baronet, soldier (born 1883 in British India)
The arts
- 7 May – first broadcast of the BBC television variety show The White Heather Club which airs nationally until 1968
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gollark: Again, you seem to just be explaining things poorly. You remind me vaguely of caveman, who seems to not be on here now.
gollark: It's kind of dodecahedral to go around complaining about people not understanding you (and implying it's some failure on their part) and then refusing to try explaining it in better ways.
gollark: > oh the obvious reality is that people dont know what they dont know, and even i didnt conclude that, tho i see it now. doesnt keep me from being impatient and getting madMaybe you should try explaining better if you think you have some great insight people do not understand.
See also
References
- Vaughan, Adrian (1989). Obstruction Danger: significant British railway accidents, 1890-1986. Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens Ltd. pp. 159–64.
- "Ian Donald's paper in The Lancet in 1958". Archived from the original on 12 January 2008. Retrieved 27 January 2008.
- Mackay, Stuart. "AC Cars Railbus Scottish Arrival". www.railcar.co.uk. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
- "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 23 May 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
- "Events in Telecommunications History – 1958". BT Archives. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
- Houston, Rab; Houston, Robert Allan (2008). Scotland: a very short introduction. Very short introductions. 197. Oxford University Press. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-19-923079-2. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
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