1958 in Scotland
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List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1958 in: The UK • Wales • Ireland • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1957–58 • 1958–59 1958 in Scottish television |
Events from the year 1958 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Clyde
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Thomson
- Chairman of the Scottish Land Court — Lord Gibson
Events
- 13 March — Glasgow Kelvingrove by-election results in a Labour gain from the Conservatives
- May — Nuclear Dounreay Materials Test Reactor achieves criticality
- 3 May — Aberdeen Corporation Tramways last operate, leaving Glasgow as the only system in Scotland
- 20 May — Railway collision at Arklestone Junction, Paisley; 97 injured[1]
- 7 June — Ian Donald publishes an article in The Lancet describing the diagnostic use of ultrasound[2]
- 4 July — St Ninian's Isle Treasure discovered in Shetland by schoolboy Douglas Coutts
- 11 July — Peter Manuel hanged at HM Prison Barlinnie for at least seven murders
- 18 August — Regional postage stamps of Great Britain are first issued
- 1 September — First of the 'Cod Wars' between the U.K. and Iceland over fishing rights breaks out
- 19 September — John Duncan Mackie is appointed Historiographer Royal
- October — Thurso High School opened
- 21 November — Construction of the Forth Road Bridge begins[3]
- 5 December — Subscriber trunk dialling is inaugurated on the U.K. telephone network when The Queen dials a call from Bristol to Edinburgh and speaks to the Lord Provost[4]
- 25 December — Christmas Day is a public holiday in Scotland for the first time[5]
- Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles on South Ronaldsay in Orkney first explored by Ronald Simison
Births
- 9 February — Sandy Lyle, golfer
- 14 April — Peter Capaldi, screen actor
- 25 April — Fish (Derek William Dick), neo-progressive rock singer
- 26 April — John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute (John Bute or Johnny Dumfries), racing driver
- 17 May — Alan Rankine, musician and producer
- 17 August — Fred Goodwin, banker
- 30 August — Muriel Gray, broadcaster
- 27 September — Irvine Welsh, novelist, playwright and short story writer
- Harry Ritchie, writer and journalist
Deaths
- 8 January — Walter Elliot, Scottish Unionist Party MP (born 1888)
- 29 March — Sir William Burrell, shipowner and art collector (born 1861)
- 2 April — Mary Barbour, political activist, local councillor and magistrate (born 1875)
- 3 September — Norman Kemp Smith, philosopher (born 1872)
- 19 September — Sir John Dick-Lauder, 11th Baronet, soldier (born 1883 in British India)
The Arts
- 7 May — First broadcast of the BBC television variety show The White Heather Club which airs nationally until 1968
See also
References
- ↑ Vaughan, Adrian (1989). Obstruction Danger: significant British railway accidents, 1890-1986. Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens Ltd. pp. 159–64.
- ↑ "Ian Donald's paper in The Lancet in 1958". Archived from the original on 2008-01-12. Retrieved 2008-01-27.
- ↑ "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Retrieved 2014-07-23.
- ↑ "Events in Telecommunications History – 1958". BT Archives. Retrieved 2014-07-23.
- ↑ Houston, Rab; Houston, Robert Allan (2008). Scotland: a very short introduction. Very short introductions. 197. Oxford University Press. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-19-923079-2. Retrieved 2012-02-29.
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