• Source: 1968 in Scotland

      • Events from the year 1968 in Scotland.


      Incumbents



      Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Willie Ross


      = Law officers

      =
      Lord Advocate – Henry Wilson
      Solicitor General for Scotland – Ewan Stewart


      = Judiciary

      =
      Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
      Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grant
      Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Birsay


      Events


      15 January – 1968 Scotland storm ("Great Glasgow storm") leaves 20 dead across central Scotland including 9 in Glasgow.
      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.
      14 May – Murder of Maxwell Garvie: Mariticide in Kincardineshire.
      18 May – Declaration of Perth: Conservative Party leader, Edward Heath proposes a directly elected Scottish Assembly.
      22 May – The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland permits the ordination of women as ministers.
      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.
      Bluevale and Whitevale Towers, 298 ft (90.8 m) blocks of flats, completed in Glasgow.


      Births


      31 January – John Collins, international footballer
      16 March – David MacMillan, Scottish-born organic chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
      26 April – Daniela Nardini, actress
      4 July – Ronni Ancona, comic actress
      5 August – Colin McRae, rally driver (killed in helicopter accident 2007)
      2 September – David Dinsmore, journalist
      6 September – Christopher Brookmyre, detective novelist
      25 October – Jason Leitch, National Clinical Director of the Scottish Government
      22 November – Sarah Smith, television and radio news reporter
      23 November – Kirsty Young, television and radio presenter
      28 December – Pauline Robertson, field hockey player
      Andrew O'Hagan, writer
      Frank Quitely (Vincent Deighan), comic book artist


      Deaths


      17 February – Alexander Gray, economist, poet and translator (born 1882)
      7 April – Jim Clark, racing car driver (born 1936; killed in motor racing accident)
      12 September – Tommy Armour, golfer (born 1894)
      13 November – Joe Corrie, miner, poet and playwright (born 1894)


      See also


      1968 in Northern Ireland


      References

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