1968 in Scotland
1968 in Scotland |
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1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 |
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1967-68 in Scottish football |
1968-69 in Scottish football |
1968 in Scottish television |
Events from 1968 in Scotland
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Events
- 15 January - 1968 Scotland storm ("Great Glasgow storm") leaves 20 dead across central Scotland including 9 in Glasgow.[1]
- February - Upper Clyde Shipbuilders formed with 48.4% government holding by amalgamation of Fairfields, Govan; Alexander Stephen & Sons, Linthouse; John Brown & Company, Clydebank; Charles Connell and Company, Scotstoun; and Yarrow Shipbuilders.
- 1 April - Reporting Scotland, BBC Scotland's national television news programme, is broadcast for the first time.
- 15 May - Murder of Maxwell Garvie.[2]
- 18 May - Declaration of Perth: UK Conservative party leader, Edward Heath proposes a directly elected Scottish Assembly.[3]
- 22 May - The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland permits the ordination of women as ministers.[4]
- 4 June - General Post Office introduces the first postbus in Scotland, Dunbar–Innerwick–Spott, East Lothian.
- 18 November - James Watt Street fire: A warehouse fire in Glasgow kills 22.[5]
- Bluevale and Whitevale Towers, 298 ft (90.8 m) blocks of flats, completed in Glasgow.
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