1952 in Scotland
1952 in Scotland |
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1951-52 in Scottish football |
1952-53 in Scottish football |
1952 in Scottish television |
Events from 1952 in Scotland
Incumbents
- Monarch - George VI (until 6 February), Elizabeth II
Events
- 6 February - HRH Prince Charles becomes Duke of Rothesay on his mother's accession.
- 14 March - BBC TV Service Scotland launches (with a display by the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society), using the Kirk o'Shotts transmitting station[1] (main transmitters into service 17 August).
- June - Reindeer reintroduced to the Cairngorms.[2]
- 27 September - Commando Memorial near Spean Bridge unveiled.[3]
- 29 September - John Cobb is killed on Loch Ness attempting to break the world water speed record in the jet speedboat Crusader.[4]
- 29 November - "Pillar Box War": First GPO pillar box of the present reign to be erected in Scotland, on the Inch housing estate in Edinburgh, is attacked in protest at its bearing the Royal Cipher of Elizabeth II, considered historically incorrect in Scotland.[5]
- 5 December - Ness, Lewis, selected for influenza vaccine trials.[1]
- 10 December - Caithness Education Committee rejects a plan to issue pupils with a book entitled ABC Guide to the Coronation because it contains only English history.[1]
- Castle of Mey in Caithness purchased for restoration by the newly-widowed Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
Births
- 12 February - Hugh Henry, Labour politician and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Paisley South from 1999
- 8 March - Bill Speirs, STUC General Secretary 1998-2006 (died 2009)
- 2 May - Isla St Clair, born Isabella Margaret Dyce, singer, actress and television presenter
- 3 May - Allan Wells, Olympic champion athlete
- 10 May - Thomas Hamilton, spree killer, perpetrator of Dunblane school massacre (suicide 1996)
- 14 May - David Byrne, pop musician
- 12 June - Oliver Knussen, composer
- 26 June - Gordon McQueen, international footballer
- 6 August - David McLetchie, Conservative MSP (died 2013)
- 12 November - Stuart Cosgrove, journalist, broadcaster and television executive
Deaths
- 23 February - Sir James Lithgow, 1st Baronet, industrialist (born 1883)
- 31 May - Thomas Cook, Labour party politician and MP for Dundee since 1945 (born 1908)
- 7 September - Marion Gilchrist, pioneering medical doctor (born 1864)
- 7 October - Sir Hugh S. Roberton, choirmaster (born 1874)
- William Roughead, lawyer and criminologist (born 1870)
The Arts
- 23 June - Salvador Dalí's new painting Christ of Saint John of the Cross goes on display at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, an acquisition by its director, Tom Honeyman, which is controversial at this time.[6]
- Poetry magazine Lines Review is founded by Callum Macdonald in Edinburgh.
- Queens Theatre, Glasgow, destroyed by fire.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Retrieved 2014-07-21.
- ↑ "History". Cairngorm Reindeer Herd. Reindeer Company. Archived from the original on 2010-07-22. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
- ↑ "Memorial To Commandos: Unveiling by the Queen Mother". The Times (52429) (London). 1952-09-29. p. 6.
- ↑ "John Cobb and the Crusader". John Cobb. Hydroplane History. 2010-04-01. Retrieved 2014-07-21. Repr. from: Villa, Leo; Desmond, Kevin (1976). The World Water Speed Record. London: Batsford. ISBN 0713430656.
- ↑ Farrugia, Jean Young (1969). The Letter Box: a history of Post Office pillar and wall boxes. Fontwell: Centaur Press. ISBN 0-900000-14-7.
- ↑ Davies, Gill (2011-06-23). "Scotland's favourite painting: Dali's Christ of St John of the Cross". BBC Scotland. Retrieved 2014-07-21.
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