1935 in Scotland
1935 in Scotland |
Years |
1933 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 |
See also |
1934-35 in Scottish football |
1935-36 in Scottish football |
Events from 1935 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 31 March & 5 December - Glasgow Subway electrified service opened to public on inner and outer circle respectively[1]
- 22 June - Kerr's Miniature Railway at Arbroath opens for business[2]
- 9 September - Glaswegian flyweight Benny Lynch becomes the first Scottish boxing world champion in a bout in Manchester[3]
- mid–late September - Lancaster general practitioner Buck Ruxton disposes of the bodies of his murder victims near Moffat
- 23 October - A footbridge across the River Forth at Cambuskenneth replaces a ferry[4]
- 2 November - Scottish-born thriller-writer John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, is sworn in as Governor General of Canada
- 14 November - UK General Election: The Communist Party of Great Britain candidate, Willie Gallacher, wins the constituency of West Fife[5]
- Edwin Muir publishes Scottish Journey
Births
- 21 February - Mark McManus, film and television actor (died 1994)
- 4 March - Nancy Whiskey, born Anne Wilson, folk singer (died 2003 in England)
- 12 April - Keith Moffatt, applied mathematician specialising in magnetohydrodynamics
- 15 July - Douglas Henderson, SNP politician and Member of Parliament (1974-1979) (died 2006)
- 10 August - John MacLeod of MacLeod, born John Wolrige-Gordon, clan chief (died 2007 in England)
- 22 November - Hugh C. Rae, novelist (died 2014)
- 15 October - Richard McTaggart, boxer
Deaths
- 12 March - Malcolm Smith, Liberal Party politician and MP (born 1856)
- 16 March - John James Rickard Macleod, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1876)
- 5 June - James Manson, mechanical engineer (born 1845)
- 27 September - William W. Naismith, mountaineer (born 1856)
See also
References
- ↑ Wright, John; Maclean, Ian (1997). Circles Under the Clyde: a history of the Glasgow Underground. Harrow Weald: Capital Transport. pp. 58–87. ISBN 1-85414-190-2.
- ↑ Little, Lawson (2000). Kerr's Miniature Railway: Scotland's Oldest Small-Scale Line. The Narrow Gauge, no. 169. Narrow Gauge Railway Society. ISBN 0-9507169-9-5.
- ↑ "Boxing News - Fighter Bios - Benny Lynch – Former world flyweight champion". SecondsOut. Retrieved 2014-05-24.
- ↑ "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Retrieved 2014-07-21.
- ↑ "William Gallacher". Renfrewshire Council. Retrieved 2014-06-08.
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