1945 in Scotland
1945 in Scotland |
Years |
1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 |
See also |
1944-45 in Scottish football |
1945-46 in Scottish football |
Events from 1945 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- March - Bruce Report (First Planning Report to the Highways and Planning Committee of the Corporation of the City of Glasgow) published, proposing massive regeneration and rebuilding in central Glasgow.
- 13 April - The Motherwell by-election results in the first Scottish National Party Member of Parliament, Robert McIntyre, being elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom after taking the seat from Labour.
- 7 May - At 23:00 the SS Avondale Park is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-2336 off the Firth of Forth with two killed, the last British-flagged merchant ship lost to German action.
- 8 May - V-E Day is celebrated throughout the U.K.
- 10 May - German U-boats begin to surrender at Loch Eriboll.[1]
- 12 May - Official inauguration of Churchill Barriers on Orkney.
- 20 May - 30 surrendered German U-boats are escorted into Kyle of Lochalsh from Loch Eriboll[2] for onward movement to Londonderry Port.
- 30 May–6 June - 64 surrendered German U-boats from Norway are processed at Scapa Flow for onward movement to Londonderry Port or Cairnryan. Until 30 June, U-boats are escorted directly to these ports from Norway and Germany via the Pentland Firth.[1]
- 13 June - A Consolidated B-24 Liberator, returning from Prestwick to the United States, crashes over the Fairy Lochs with the loss of all 15 on board.
- 26 July - Results of United Kingdom general election, 1945, declared. In Scotland, as throughout the U.K., Labour have a majority of the seats with an 11% swing in their favour, and regain the Motherwell seat.
- 15 August - V-J Day is celebrated throughout the U.K.
- December - Alexander Fleming shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[3]
Births
- 6 January - Martin O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of Clackmannan, politician
- 7 February - Ian Jack, journalist
- 21 April - Alasdair Morgan, politician
- 12 May - Jimmy Ryan, footballer
- 4 June - Gordon Waller, singer-songwriter (died 2009 in the United States)
- 10 June - Benny Gallagher, singer-songwriter
- 28 June - Ken Buchanan, Boxing Undisputed World Lightweight Champion
- 3 July - Michael Martin, Speaker of the House of Commons
- 30 July - Tom Devine, historian
- 5 September - Al Stewart, folk rock singer-songwriter
- 18 October - Sam Galbraith, brain surgeon, Labour MP (1987-2001) and MSP (1999-2001) and long-term lung transplantation survivor (born in Clitheroe; died 2014)
- 23 November - Dennis Nilsen, serial killer
- 7 December - Clive Russell, actor
Deaths
The Arts
See also
References