1955 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1955 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
- William Rankine Milligan
- William Rankine Milligan until January; then William Grant
Judiciary
- Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Thomson
- Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Gibson
Events
- 1955 – Dounreay Nuclear Power Development Establishment founded with the primary aim to develop Dounreay as the site for testing previously untried fast breeder reactor technology.[1][2]
- 24 February – a big freeze across the UK results in many roads being blocked with snow; Caithness is practically cut off. The Royal Air Force works to deliver food and medical supplies to the worst affected areas.[3]
- 21 March – American evangelist Billy Graham begins a seven-week Scottish crusade at the Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.[4]
- 1 April – the South of Scotland Electricity Boardis formed by merger.
- 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.[4]
- 19 May – Greenock Coin Hoardfound.
- 27 May – United Kingdom general election: In Scotland, as throughout the UK as a whole, the Conservativeshave a majority of seats.
- , first flies.
- 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.
- Riccarton Junction.[6]
- 11 November – a second major fire in Edinburgh largely destroys the C&A fashion store in Princes Street.[4]
- New town.[7]
- 14 December – RMS Carinthia is launched at John Brown & Company's shipyard on Clydebank for the Cunard Line's Canadian service.
- The collection of the world's first Lady Stair’s House) by optician Patrick Murray.
- Archaeological excavations on St Ninian's Isle begin.
Births
- 3 February – Kirsty Wark, television presenter
- John Burnside, writer
- 31 March – Angus Young, rock musician
- 23 April – Allan Forsyth, footballer
- 2 May – Willie Miller, footballer
- 5 May – John Stroyan, Anglicanbishop
- 14 May – Alasdair Fraser, fiddler
- 4 June – Val McDermid, crime novelist
- 13 June – Alan Hansen, footballer and television presenter
- 1 July – Candia McWilliam, fiction writer
- 8 July – Douglas Flint, banker
- 12 July – Robin Robertson, poet, novelist and editor
- 25 August – John McGeochguitarist (died 2004 in England)
- 11 October – Sally Magnusson, journalist and broadcast presenter
- 12 October – Aggie MacKenzie, television presenter
- 28 October – Jeff Stewart, actor
- 12 November – Les McKeown, pop-rock singer (died 2021)
- 22 November – Mary Macmaster, harpist
- 2 December – Janice Galloway, writer
- 6 December – Anne Begg, Labour politician
- 23 December – Carol Ann Duffy, poet
Deaths
- 21 February – Sir Henry Wade, surgeon (born 1876)
- 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)
- Mary Newbery Sturrock, artist and designer (born 1890)
- Salvador Ysart, glassblower (born 1878 in Barcelona)
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
- ^ Munn, Andy. "UKAEA – The First Fifty Years". Caithness.Org. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
- ^ Robin McKie, Science Editor, Guardian, 25 May 2008
- ^ "Britain's big freeze". On This Day. BBC News. 24 February 1955. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
- ^ a b c d "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 23 May 2014. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ^ "Two Sea Hawks Down". The Times. No. 53261. London. 1 July 1955. p. 10.
- ^ The Railway Magazine October 1955.
- ^ "Cumbernauld Town Centre". Retrieved 7 April 2013.