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List of events
Events from the year 1968 in
Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
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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.
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1 April –
Reporting Scotland,
BBC Scotland's national television news programme, is broadcast for the first time.
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14 May –
Murder of Maxwell Garvie:
Mariticide in
Kincardineshire.
[2]
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18 May –
Declaration of Perth: Conservative Party leader,
Edward Heath proposes a directly elected Scottish Assembly.
[3]
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22 May – The
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland permits the ordination of women as ministers.
[4]
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4 June –
General Post Office introduces the first
postbus in Scotland,
Dunbar–
Innerwick–
Spott, East Lothian.
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18 November –
James Watt Street fire: A warehouse fire in Glasgow kills 22.
[5]
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Bluevale and Whitevale Towers, 298 ft (90.8 m) blocks of flats, completed in Glasgow.
Births
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31 January –
John Collins, international footballer
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16 March –
David MacMillan, Scottish-born organic chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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26 April –
Daniela Nardini, actress
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4 July –
Ronni Ancona, comic actress
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5 August –
Colin McRae, rally driver (killed in helicopter accident
2007)
[6]
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2 September –
David Dinsmore, journalist
[7]
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6 September –
Christopher Brookmyre, detective novelist
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25 October –
Jason Leitch, National Clinical Director of the Scottish Government
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22 November –
Sarah Smith, television and radio news reporter
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23 November –
Kirsty Young, television and radio presenter
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28 December –
Pauline Robertson, field hockey player
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Andrew O'Hagan, writer
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Frank Quitely (Vincent Deighan), comic book artist
Deaths
See also
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