1941 in Scotland
1941 in Scotland |
Years |
1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 |
See also |
1940-41 in Scottish football |
1941-42 in Scottish football |
Events from 1941 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 5 February - The cargo ship SS Politician runs aground on Eriskay.
- 12 February - Tom Johnston is appointed Secretary of State for Scotland, a post which he holds until the end of the wartime coalition.[1]
- 13–14 March - Clydebank Blitz: bombing of Clydebank.
- 6–7 May - Greenock Blitz: Greenock is intensively bombed.
- 10 May - Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland claiming to be on a peace mission.
- 12 May - The Honours of Scotland are secretly buried within Edinburgh Castle as a precaution against invasion.[2]
- 2 June - 2 adults and 8 children are killed at Buckhaven when a naval mine explodes on the foreshore.[3]
- 30 August - First official 'Shetland bus' clandestine mission using Norwegian fishing boats between Shetland and German-occupied Norway.
- 5 November - The Commercial Bar in Fraserburgh receives a direct hit from a German bomb, killing over 30.[3]
- Loudoun Castle is gutted by fire.
Births
- 9 April - Hannah Gordon, television actress
- 18 May - Malcolm Longair, astrophysicist
- 22 May - Menzies Campbell, leader of the U.K. Liberal Democrats
- 22 November - Tom Conti, actor
- 25 December - Kenneth Calman, medical researcher and academic
- 31 December - Alex Ferguson, footballer and manager
Deaths
- 6 April - Kenneth Campbell, airman, posthumous Victoria Cross recipient (born 1917; killed in action over Brest, France)
- 12 April - Charles Murray, Doric dialect poet and civil engineer (born 1864)
- 29 June - Sir Alexander MacEwen, solicitor, Provost of Inverness and first Scottish National Party leader (born 1875 in British India)
- 17 July - Charles Melvin, soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1885)
- 3 December - Neil Harris footballer and manager (born 1894)
The Arts
- A. J. Cronin's novel The Keys of the Kingdom is published.
- Compton Mackenzie's comic novel The Monarch of the Glen is published.
- Sydney Goodsir Smith's first collection Skail Wind - Poems is published in Edinburgh.
See also
References
- ↑ Devine, T. M. (1999). The Scottish Nation, 1700-2000. London: Allen Lane. pp. 551–2. ISBN 0713993510.
Johnson was a giant figure in Scottish politics and is revered to this day as the greatest Scottish Secretary of the century.
- ↑ Reekie, Christopher (1993-04-05). "How the Honours of Scotland were hidden in the castle to thwart Hitler's invading troops". The Herald. Retrieved 2014-05-09.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
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