1924 in Scotland
1924 in Scotland |
Years |
1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926 |
See also |
1923-24 in Scottish football |
1924-25 in Scottish football |
Events from 1924 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 22 January - Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, leading a minority government.[1]
- 28–30 January - Curling at the 1924 Winter Olympics: The gold medal is won by a Scottish team representing Great Britain in Chamonix.
- 3 June - Gleneagles Hotel, in Perthshire, opens.[2]
- 11 July - Eric Liddell wins 400m gold at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris in a new world record time of 47.6 seconds.
- The Scottish county of Linlithgowshire is officially renamed West Lothian.
- Duncansby Head lighthouse, engineered by David Alan Stevenson, is established.[3]
- The Scots Magazine resumes publication under this title.
- The London and North Eastern Railway officially names its Flying Scotsman express train, although the 10.00 a.m. service from London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley over the East Coast Main Line has previously been known by this title, and has operated since 1862.
Births
- 29 January - Bobby Combe, international footballer (died 1991)
- 15 April - Rikki Fulton, comedian (died 2004)
- 18 April - Buxton Orr, composer (died 1997)
- 20 May - Stan Paterson, glaciologist (died 2013 in Canada)
- 14 June - James Black, pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 2010 in London)
Deaths
- 27 April - James Salmon, architect (born 1873)
- 31 December - James Gardiner, Liberal MP (born 1860)
The Arts
- April - French-born critic Denis Saurat publishes "Le groupe de la Renaissance Écossaise" in Revue Anglo-Américaine bringing writers of the modern Scottish Renaissance to wider European notice.
See also
References
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