1947 in Scotland
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Events from 1947 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 10 January - Burngrange mining disaster: An explosion in an oil shale mine at West Calder kills 15.[1]
- 6 May - East Kilbride designated as the first New Town in Scotland under powers of the New Towns Act 1946.[2]
- 16 June - PS Waverley makes her maiden voyage on the Firth of Clyde.
- 9 July - Glasgow Zoo opens at Calderpark, Baillieston.
- 18 July - The first official night horse racing meeting in Britain is held at Hamilton Park Racecourse.[1]
- 27–28 July - English endurance swimmer Tom Blower becomes the first person to swim the North Channel, from Donaghadee in Northern Ireland to Portpatrick.
- 31 July - The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947 receives the Royal Assent.
- 1 October - Local government is reorganised in line with the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947.
- 25 October - Walter Donaldson becomes the first Scottish player to win the World Snooker Championship.
- 5 November - The Scottish Aviation Pioneer STOL aircraft, built at Prestwick, first flies.
- Archaeological excavations at Cairnpapple Hill in West Lothian are begun by Stuart Piggott.
- The Golden Wonder brand of potato crisp is originated by bakery owner William Alexander of Stockbridge, Edinburgh.
- Robert Wiseman Dairies founded by Robert Wiseman with a horse and cart used for doorstep deliveries in East Kilbride.[3]
Births
- 4 February - John Campbell Brown, astronomer
- 11 February - Derek Shulman, progressive rock musician (Gentle Giant)
- 24 March - Archie Gemmill, footballer
- 16 April - Gerry Rafferty, singer-songwriter (died 2011)
- 21 April - Robert Black, serial killer
- 8 May - John Reid, Labour Party MP and Minister
- 31 May - Junior Campbell, born William Campbell Jr, pop musician (Marmalade)
- 10 August - Ian Anderson, rock musician (Jethro Tull)
- 27 September - Barbara Dickson, singer
- 26 December - Liz Lochhead, poet and dramatist
Deaths
- 25 April - John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute, architectural conservationist (born 1881 in London)
- 28 November - James Miller, architect and artist (born 1860)
- 14 December - Will Fyffe, music hall entertainer (born 1885)
The Arts
- 30 January - Ena Lamont Stewart's domestic drama Men Should Weep, written in Glasgow patter, is premiered by the Glasgow Unity Theatre at the Athenaeum Theatre.
- 13 March - The Lerner and Loewe musical Brigadoon opens on Broadway.
- 24 August - First Edinburgh Festival of the Arts opens.
- 31 August - The first Edinburgh International Film Festival opens at the Playhouse Cinema, presented by the Edinburgh Film Guild as part of the Edinburgh Festival of the Arts. Originally specialising in documentaries, it will become the world's oldest continuously running film festival.[4]
- Compton Mackenzie's comic novel Whisky Galore is published.
- Sydney Goodsir Smith's comic novel Carotid Cornucopius: caird of the Cannon Gait and voyeur of the Outlook Touer. His splores, cantraips, wisdoms, houghmagandies, peribibulatiouns and all kinna abstrapulous junketings and ongoings abowt the high toun of Edenberg, capitule of boney Sotland is published in Glasgow.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Retrieved 2014-07-18.
- ↑ The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 16436. p. 189. 9 May 1947. Retrieved 2013-04-22.
- ↑ "Company history". Robert Wiseman Dairies. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
- ↑ "Scotland Hosts the World's Longest Running Film Festival". Scotland.com. Retrieved 2014-07-18.
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