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1967 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1967 in
Scotland
.
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See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1967 in:
The UK
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Scottish football:
1966–67
•
1967–68
1967 in Scottish television
Incumbents
edit
Secretary of State for Scotland
and
Keeper of the Great Seal
–
Willie Ross
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
Gordon Stott
; then
Henry Wilson
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
Henry Wilson
; then Ewan Stewart
Judiciary
edit
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
edit
7 February
–
Mortonhall Crematorium
, Edinburgh, designed by
Spence
, Glover & Ferguson (project architect: John 'Archie' Dewar), is dedicated.
9 March
–
Glasgow Pollok by-election
:
Conservatives
take the seat from
Labour
despite a fall in support as the
Scottish National Party
gains 28% of the vote.
26 March
– closure of
Machrihanish Coalfield
.
[1]
April–June – the
Scottish Region of British Railways
withdraws its last
steam locomotives
.
28 April
–
Third Lanark A.C.
plays its last football match.
25 May
–
Celtic F.C.
become the first British and Northern European team to reach a
European Cup
final and also to win it, beating
Inter Milan
2-1 in normal time with the winning goal being scored by
Steve Chalmers
in
Lisbon
,
Portugal
.
27 May
– closure of the last route served by
trolleybuses in Glasgow
.
9 September
– an underground fire at Michael Colliery in
East Wemyss
in the
Fife Coalfield
kills 9; more than 300 escape but the mine is closed.
[2]
20 September
– the
Queen Elizabeth 2
, the largest ship ever built in Scotland and the last passenger ship built on the
Clyde
, is launched at
John Brown & Company
's yard at
Clydebank
.
2 November
–
Hamilton by-election
:
Winnie Ewing
wins for the
Scottish National Party
, taking the seat from Labour.
13 November
–
University of Stirling
chartered.
20 December
–
Scott Lithgow
formed to merge the
Clyde
shipbuilding interests of
Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
and
Lithgows
.
Deepwater pier on
Coll
opened.
Workers Party of Scotland
(Marxist–Leninist) formed.
Scottish Civic Trust
formed to promote protection and enhancement of the built environment.
Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre
established in
Eskdalemuir
.
Births
edit
January –
King Creosote
(Kenny Anderson), singer-songwriter
21 February
–
Neil Oliver
, archaeologist and television presenter
11 March
–
John Barrowman
, actor
8 June
–
Kathryn Imrie
, golfer
15 August
–
Tony Hand
, ice hockey player
23 August
–
Jim Murphy
, Labour politician
26 August
–
Michael Gove
, Conservative politician
26 October
–
Douglas Alexander
, Labour politician
29 December
–
Carl Honoré
, writer on current affairs
Martin Boyce
, sculptor
Graeme Macrae Burnet
, novelist
Nathan Coley
, installation artist
Deaths
edit
3 January
–
Mary Garden
, operatic soprano (born
1874
)
[3]
23 March
–
Duncan Macrae
, actor (born
1905
)
3 August
–
Thomas Haining Gillespie
, founder of the
Royal Zoological Society of Scotland
and
Edinburgh Zoo
(born
1876
)
13 August
–
Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna
, poet (born
1887
)
6 September
–
Alex Moffat
, miner, trade unionist and communist activist (born
1904
)
Annie Maxton
, Independent Labour politician
The Arts
edit
George Mackay Brown
's first book of stories,
A Calendar of Love
, published
See also
edit
1967 in Northern Ireland
References
edit
^
Seaman, D. M. "Coal Mining in Kintyre"
(PDF)
. Retrieved
9 October
2020
.
^
Savage, Eric. "Fire At Michael Colliery, Fife, 9th September, 1967".
HealeyHero
. Retrieved
9 October
2020
.
^
"Mary Garden | Opera Scotland".
www.operascotland.org
. Retrieved
30 April
2020
.