1955 in Scotland
1955 in Scotland |
Years |
1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 |
See also |
1954-55 in Scottish football |
1955-56 in Scottish football |
1955 in Scottish television |
Events from 1955 in Scotland
Incumbents
- Monarch – Elizabeth II (since 6 February 1952)
Events
- 21 March – American evanglist Billy Graham begins a 7-week Scottish crusade at the Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.[1]
- 1 April – The South of Scotland Electricity Board is formed by merger.
- 23 April – The Scottish Cup Final is broadcast live on television for the first time. Clyde F.C. draw 1-1 with Celtic, winning the replay 1-0.[1]
- 25 June – The Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer STOL transport aircraft, built at Prestwick, first flies.
- 25–27 July – 'Operation Sandcastle': The first load of deteriorating captured Nazi German bombs filled with Tabun (nerve agent) is shipped from Cairnryan on the SS Empire Claire for scuttling in the Atlantic Ocean.
- 10 November – A major fire in Edinburgh destroys the footwear warehouse of C. W. Carr Aitkman in Jeffrey Street.[1]
- 11 November – A second major fire in Edinburgh largely destroys the C&A fashion store in Princes Street.[1]
- 9 December – Cumbernauld is designated a New town.[2]
- The world's first Museum of Childhood is opened on Edinburgh's Royal Mile by Patrick Murray.
- Archaeological excavations on St Ninian's Isle begin.
- Greenock Coin Hoard found.
Births
- 18 January – Robin Wales, Labour politician, mayor of the London Borough of Newham
- 3 February – Kirsty Wark, television presenter
- 19 March – John Burnside, writer
- 31 March – Angus Young, rock musician
- 2 May – Willie Miller, footballer
- 4 June – Val McDermid, crime novelist
- 13 June – Alan Hansen, footballer and television presenter
- 12 October – Aggie MacKenzie, television presenter
- 28 October – Jeff Stewart, actor
- 2 December – Janice Galloway, writer
- 6 December – Anne Begg, Labour politician
- 23 December – Carol Ann Duffy, poet
Deaths
- 26 February – Agnes Mure Mackenzie, writer and historian (born 1891)
- 3 March – Lewis Spence, writer and folklorist (born 1874)
- 11 March – Sir Alexander Fleming, bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1881; died in London)
- 22 April – Herbert MacNair, artist (born 1868)
- 11 October – Hector McNeil, politician (born 1907)
The Arts
- Robin Jenkins's novel The Cone Gatherers is published.
- Sandy MacMillan, Thomas Limond and Ross Taylor's Scots language nursery rhyme collection Bairnsangs is published, as by Sandy Thomas Ross.
- Edith Anne Robertson's Scots language poetry collections Voices frae the city o trees; and ither voices frae nearbye and Poems Frae the Suddron O Walter De La Mare Made Ower Intil Scots are published.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Retrieved 2014-07-16.
- ↑ "Cumbernauld Town Centre". Retrieved 2013-04-07.
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