1966 in Scotland

← 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 1966 in Scotland → 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971
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See also:	List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1966 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1965–66 • 1966–67 1966 in Scottish television

Events from the year 1966 in Scotland.

Incumbents

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

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Gordon Stott
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Henry Wilson

Judiciary

• Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grant
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Birsay

• 1 February – Heriot-Watt College in Edinburgh is designated Heriot-Watt University
  .
• 9 February – construction of a prototype fast breeder nuclear reactor at Dounreay on the north coast of Scotland is announced.^[1]
• 28 March – Ballachulish branch railway officially closed; Connel Bridge
  becomes a road-only crossing.
• 11 April (Easter Monday) – Scottish clearing banks observe today as a bank holiday
  for the first time, aligning them with those in England.
• May
  • Pioneering west coast roll-on/roll-off ferry Isle of Gigha enters service.
  • Royal Commission on Local Government in Scotland (chaired by Lord Wheatley) appointed.
• 27 June
  • Queen Elizabeth II
    .
  • Glasgow St Enoch railway station officially closed.^[2]
• 18 July – Old Man of Hoy first climbed, by Chris Bonington, Rusty Baillie and Tom Patey.^[3][4]
• 18 August – the Tay Road Bridge
  opens linking Dundee with Fife.
• 29 August – Scottish clearing banks observe this last Monday in August (rather than the first) as a bank holiday
  for the first time.
• 28 October – first Red Road Flats
  in Glasgow officially opened.
• 9 November – Irvine is designated as a New Town
  .
• 11 November – MV Isle of Gigha capsizes on a Gigha–Port Ellen
  crossing.
• Scottish Grand National first run at Ayr Racecourse.

Births

• March – Jamie Oag, entrepreneur
• 18 March – Joanna Cherry
  , Scottish National Party politician and lawyer
• 28 May – Roddy Lumsden, poet (died 2020
  )
• Under-Secretary of State for Scotland and MP for Inverclyde (died 2011
  )
• 20 September – Douglas Gordon
  , visual artist
• 12 October – Rhona Martin, curler
• 26 October – Steve Valentine
  , actor
• 8 November – Gordon Ramsay
  , celebrity chef
• 23 November – Kevin Gallacher
  , international footballer
• Laura Hird, fiction writer

Deaths

• 1 January – Alexander Carrick, sculptor (born 1882
  )
• 7 January – Allan Chapman, lawyer and politician (born 1897
  )
• Glasgow Rent Strikes (born 1887
  )
• 6 November – Hugh Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of Allander, retailer (born 1903
  )
• 24 December – Sir Donald MacGillivray, last colonial governor of Malaya (born 1906
  )

• 7 January – school-based television drama series This Man Craig is first screened by BBC Scotland with John Cairney
  in the title rôle.
• The Bay City Rollers and The Incredible String Band form in Edinburgh.

See also

• 1966 in Northern Ireland

References