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List of events
Events from the year 1965 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
March –
Cables Wynd House ("Banana Flats") completed in
Leith .
[2]
24 March –
Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles by-election :
David Steel (
Liberal ) gains the seat from the Conservatives.
12 April –
Harald Leslie becomes Chairman of the
Scottish Land Court , with the judicial title Lord Birsay. He replaces
Lord Gibson .
[1]
15 June –
Law Commissions Act 1965 , establishing the
Scottish Law Commission , receives the Royal assent.
August –
Union Canal officially closed to navigation.
[3]
5 August – the
Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 receives royal assent.
11 August – first edition of
The Celtic View , the official weekly magazine of
Celtic F.C. in Glasgow, is published.
20 August –
Cassius Clay fights an exhibition bout at the Ice Rink,
Paisley .
[4]
6 September –
Edinburgh Princes Street railway station is officially closed.
[5]
15 October – the
Cruachan Dam
pumped-storage hydroelectricity scheme at
Ben Cruachan near
Oban opens.
8 November – the
Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act suspends
capital punishment for
murder in England, Scotland and Wales, for five years in the first instance, replacing it with a mandatory sentence of
life imprisonment .
November –
Harthill
Bypass opened, first section of the
M8 motorway and the first substantive section of
motorway in Scotland.
The
Unionist Party in Scotland is renamed the
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party and constitutionally comes under the control of the London-based
Conservative Party .
Construction of the town of
Dalgety Bay begins.
Highlands and Islands Development Board formed.
Corpach
pulp and
paper mills open.
[6]
Births
18 January –
Paul Flexney , footballer
20 January –
Colin Calderwood , international footballer and coach
22 January –
Brian McCardie , actor
27 January –
Alan Cumming , actor
6 February –
Simone Lahbib , actress
11 February –
Keith Cochrane , businessman
14 February –
Ian Spittal , footballer
16 February –
Ally Maxwell , footballer and coach
22 February –
John Leslie (born John Leslie Stott), television presenter
5 March –
Carolyn Leckie ,
Scottish Socialist Party MSP (2003–2007)
8 March –
Paul Martin , footballer and manager
20 March –
William Dalrymple , historian
22 March –
Rob Wainwright , international rugby union footballer
23 March –
Marti Pellow (born Mark McLachlan), singer
26 March –
Pat McFadden , Labour MP (
Wolverhampton 2005– )
6 April –
Andy Walker , footballer and TV pundit
11 April –
Lynn Ferguson , writer, actress, comedian and presenter
25 April –
Ally Dick , footballer
16 May –
Stuart Millar , football player and manager
17 May –
Keith Wright , international footballer
24 May –
Brian Irvine , international footballer
28 May –
Vic Kasule , footballer
5 June –
Allan Guthrie , literary agent, author and editor of crime fiction
19 June –
A. B. Jackson , poet
22 June –
Jimmy Sandison , footballer
3 July –
Tommy Flanagan , actor
9 July –
David O'Hara , actor
12 July –
Eric Cullen , actor (died
1996 )
15 July –
Alistair Carmichael ,
Liberal Democrat politician and
Secretary of State for Scotland
19 July –
Evelyn Glennie , virtuosa percussionist
24 July –
Julie Graham , actress
26 July –
Hamish Clark , actor
11 August –
Robert Fleck , international footballer and manager
30 August –
Peter Grant , international footballer and manager
5 September –
Murdo Fraser , Conservative MSP (2001– )
11 September:
14 September –
Paul McFadden , footballer
27 September –
Rhona Cameron , comedian
14 October –
Sandy Stewart , footballer and manager
20 October –
Norman Blake , singer, instrumentalist and songwriter
22 October –
A. L. Kennedy , fiction writer
29 October –
Paul Stewart , racing driver
12 November –
Eddie Mair , radio and television presenter
19 November –
Douglas Henshall , actor
24 November –
Shirley Henderson , actress
25 November –
Dougray Scott , actor
28 November –
Caroline Paterson , actress
11 December –
Alison Watt , painter
13 December –
Hugh Burns , footballer
20 December –
Robert Cavanah , actor, writer, director and producer
21 December –
Stuart Mitchell , pianist and composer
31 December –
Mike Conroy , footballer
Unknown
Deaths
7 January –
Anne Redpath , domestic painter (born
1895 )
1 February –
Robert Spence , Labour MP
14 February –
David Ferguson Hunter , recipient of the
Victoria Cross (born
1891 )
30 April –
James William Slessor Marr , marine biologist and polar explorer (born
1902 )
17 March –
Walter Potter Ritchie , recipient of the
Victoria Cross (born
1892 )
31 March –
Gerard Crole , international rugby union and cricket player (born
1894 )
9 April –
Robert Gibson, Lord Gibson , lawyer and Labour MP
9 May –
Hugh O'Donnell , footballer (born
1913 )
16 July –
William Reid ,
Scottish Labour Party Member of Parliament from 1950 to 1964 (born
1889 )
2 August –
John Carmont , High Court Judge (born
1890 )
12 August –
Willie Gallacher , trade unionist, activist and communist MP (born
1881 )
5 September –
Tom Johnston , Labour MP, government minister and chairman of
North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board (born
1881 )
8 October –
James Nelson , international footballer (born
1901 )
20 October –
William Thomas Shaw ,
Unionist Party MP (born
1879 )
The arts
See also
References
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