1967 in Scotland
1967 in Scotland |
Years |
1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 |
Centuries |
18th century | 19th century | 20th century | 21st century |
See also |
1966-67 in Scottish football |
1967-68 in Scottish football |
1967 in Scottish television |
Events from 1967 in Scotland
Incumbents
- Monarch – Elizabeth II (since 6 February 1952)
Events
- 9 March - Glasgow Pollok by-election: Conservatives take the seat from Labour despite a fall in support as the Scottish National Party gains 28% of the vote.
- April–June - The Scottish Region of British Railways withdraws its last steam locomotives.
- 28 April - Last ever football match played by Third Lanark A.C.
- 25 May - Celtic F.C. become the first British and Northern European team to reach a European Cup final and also to win it, beating Inter Milan 2-1 in normal time with the winning goal being scored by Steve Chalmers in Lisbon, Portugal.
- 27 May - Closure of the last route served by trolleybuses in Glasgow.
- 20 September - The Queen Elizabeth 2, the largest ship ever built in Scotland and the last passenger ship built on the Clyde, is launched at John Brown & Company's yard at Clydebank.
- 2 November - Hamilton by-election: Winnie Ewing wins for the Scottish National Party, taking the seat from Labour.
- 13 November - University of Stirling chartered.
- Scott Lithgow shipbuilders on the River Clyde formed by merger of Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company and Lithgows.
- Deepwater pier on Coll opened.
- Workers Party of Scotland (Marxist-Leninist) formed.
- Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre established in Eskdalemuir.
Births
- 11 March - John Barrowman, actor
- 15 August - Tony Hand, ice hockey player
- 23 August - Jim Murphy, Labour politician
- 26 October - Douglas Alexander, Labour politician
- Martin Boyce, sculptor
- Nathan Coley, installation artist
Deaths
- 3 January - Mary Garden, operatic soprano (born 1874)
- 23 March - Duncan Macrae, actor (born 1905)
- 3 August - Thomas Haining Gillespie, founder of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and Edinburgh Zoo (born 1876)
- 13 August - Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna, poet (born 1887)
See also
References
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