1968_in_Scotland Knowpia

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Events from the year 1968 in Scotland.

Incumbents edit

15 January – 1968 Scotland storm ("Great Glasgow storm") leaves 20 dead across central Scotland including 9 in Glasgow.^[1]
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.
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.^[2]
18 May – Declaration of Perth: Conservative Party leader, Edward Heath proposes a directly elected Scottish Assembly.^[3]
22 May – The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland permits the ordination of women as ministers.^[4]
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.^[5]
Bluevale and Whitevale Towers, 298 ft (90.8 m) blocks of flats, completed in Glasgow.

31 January – John Collins, international footballer
16 March – David MacMillan, Scottish-born organic chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
26 April – Daniela Nardini, actress
4 July – Ronni Ancona, comic actress
5 August – Colin McRae, rally driver (killed in helicopter accident 2007)^[6]
2 September – David Dinsmore, journalist^[7]
6 September – Christopher Brookmyre, detective novelist
25 October – Jason Leitch, National Clinical Director of the Scottish Government
22 November – Sarah Smith, television and radio news reporter
23 November – Kirsty Young, television and radio presenter
28 December – Pauline Robertson, field hockey player
Andrew O'Hagan, writer
Frank Quitely (Vincent Deighan), comic book artist

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)

^ "Monday 15 January 1968" (PDF). Met Office. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
^ "The sins of my mother". The Scotsman. 1 February 2002. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
^ "Four decades on, Declaration of Perth is still fuelling debate". The Scotsman. 26 February 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
^ "Ordination of women is approved". The Times. No. 57258. London. 23 May 1968. p. 3.
^ "James Watt Street Fire". SunnyGovan. Archived from the original on 3 June 2010. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
^ "Colin McRae". The Independent. 17 September 2007. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
^ "Birthdays today: Salma Hayek". The Times. 2 September 2013. Retrieved 21 February 2014. David Dinsmore, editor, The Sun, 45