1938 in Scotland
1938 in Scotland |
Years |
1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 |
See also |
1937-38 in Scottish football |
1938-39 in Scottish football |
Events from 1938 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 27 April - Second Division team East Fife F.C. uniquely win the Scottish Cup in Association football.[1]
- 3 May - Empire Exhibition opens in Glasgow.[2]
- 30 July - The Beano comic, published by D. C. Thomson & Co. of Dundee, goes on sale across the U.K.[3]
- 27 September - RMS Queen Elizabeth is launched at Clydebank; she is the largest ship in the world at this time.
- Iona Community established by Rev. George MacLeod in Glasgow.
- English landowner David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, buys the island of Inch Kenneth.
- The Hermitage of Braid estate, adjacent to Blackford Hill, is gifted to the city of Edinburgh for recreational purposes by John McDougal.
- The Neolithic settlement of Rinyo on Rousay in Orkney is excavated by V. Gordon Childe.
- Broughton Place at Broughton in the Borders is built in the style of a traditional tower house by Basil Spence incorporating decorative reliefs by Hew Lorimer.[4]
- Agnes Mure Mackenzie publishes The Foundations of Scotland, the first of a 6-volume history.
Births
- 2 January - Ian Brady, born Ian Duncan Stewart, serial killer
- 16 February - Willie Hamilton, footballer (died 1976 in Canada)
- 31 March
- Ian Gray, comics scriptwriter (died 2007)
- David Steel, Liberal Democrats leader and 1st Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
- 5 June - Moira Anderson, singer
- 13 September - John Smith, Labour Party leader (died 1994 in London)
- 20 October - Iain Macmillan, photographer (died 2006)
Deaths
- 9 April - Moses McNeil, footballer, a founder of Rangers F.C. (born 1855)
- 29 April - James Pittendrigh Macgillivray, sculptor and poet (born 1856)
- 11 April - David Alan Stevenson, lighthouse designer (born 1854)
The Arts
- Hugh S. Roberton writes the "Mingulay Boat Song".
See also
References
- ↑ "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Retrieved 2014-07-21.
- ↑ Pelle, Findling, ed. (2008). "Appendix B: Fair Statistics". Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 416. ISBN 978-0-7864-3416-9.
- ↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ↑ "Broughton Place, Broughton". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2014-09-02.
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