1964 in Scotland

Events from the year 1964 in Scotland.

← 1963 1962 1961 1960 1959 1964 in Scotland → 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
Centuries:	18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1964 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1963–64 • 1964–65 1964 in Scottish television

Incumbents

Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland

• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Michael Noble until 16 October; then Willie Ross

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Ian Shearer, Lord Avonside; then Gordon Stott
• Solicitor General for Scotland – David Colville Anderson; then Henry Wilson

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 Gibson

Events

 

Forth Road Bridge

• 11 January – Nationwide UK teenage girls' magazine Jackie is first published by DC Thomson of Dundee.^[1]
• 29 April – 1964 Aberdeen typhoid outbreak: All schools in Aberdeen are closed following 136 cases of typhoid being reported.
• 30 April – Breakthrough on 2.5-mile (4.0 km) tunnel 500 metres (1,600 ft) under the Firth of Forth to link the colliery at Valleyfield, Fife, to the modern coal processing facilities at Kinneil colliery near Bo'ness.^[2][3][4]
• 14 May – Rutherglen by-election: Labour gains seat from the Conservatives.
• 20 May – 1964 Aberdeen typhoid outbreak begins.
• 23 June – University of Strathclyde chartered.^[5]
• 4 September – The Forth Road Bridge opens across the Firth of Forth, connecting Fife and Edinburgh.
• 22 September – Hunterston A nuclear power station opens.
• 15 October – United Kingdom general election: Labour defeats Sir Alec Douglas-Home's Conservatives^[6] and the Unionist Party in Scotland loses eight seats.
• 20 November – The first part of the M8 motorway between Glasgow and Edinburgh is opened.
• HMNB Clyde established by the Royal Navy at Faslane on the Gare Loch.
• William Grant & Sons first market their Glenfiddich distillery Speyside single malt whisky in bottles internationally.

Births

• 2 January – Michael McCann, lawyer and politician
• 29 January – Roddy Frame, singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 2 February – Susan Deacon, Labour politician and MSP (1999–2007)
• 12 February – Stephen Carter, businessman and politician
• 19 February – Jim McInally, international footballer and manager
• 7 March – Tommy Sheridan, socialist politician and MSP (1999–2007)
• 13 April – John Swinney, Scottish National Party leader and government minister
• 18 April – Niall Ferguson, historian
• 24 May – Liz McColgan, athlete
• 31 May – Billy Davies, footballer and manager
• 27 June – Shona Marshall, sport shooter^[7]
• 1 August – Fiona Hyslop, Scottish National Party MSP (1999– ) and government minister
• 9 September – John Hughes, footballer and manager
• 4 October – Yvonne Murray, middle- and long-distance runner^[8]
• 8 October – James Grant, new wave singer-songwriter
• 13 November – Paul McBride, criminal lawyer (died 2012)
• 11 December – Justin Currie, singer-songwriter
• 25 December – Gary McAllister, international footballer, manager and coach
• Dorothy Bain, Lord Advocate
• Stephen Conroy, painter
• Aminatta Forna, novelist
• Jim Lambie, installation artist
• Gillian Reid, chemist
• Alan Warner, novelist

Deaths

• 31 May – Nikolai Orlov, classical pianist (born 1892 in Russia)
• 21 July – John White, international footballer (born 1937)
• 25 September – Robert Wilson, tenor (born 1907)
• 3 December – Dot Allan, writer (born 1886)^[9]
• 11 December – Charles Donaldson, Conservative politician (born 1903)
• 31 December – Ronald Fairbairn, psychoanalyst (born 1889)

The arts

• 15 December – Peter Watkins' docudrama Culloden is broadcast on BBC Television.

See also

• 1964 in Northern Ireland
• 1964 in Wales

References

1. McRobbie, Angela (1991). Feminism and Youth Culture: from "Jackie" to "Just Seventeen". Basingstoke: Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-45263-9.
2. The tunnel is closed and sealed in the 1980s. Dick, Sandra (13 May 2014). "Tunnel under Forth that linked Lothians to Fife". Edinburgh Evening News. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
3. Kelly, John (4 March 2015). "Crossing the Forth without the Forth Bridge". BBC. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
4. MacDonald, Fraser (30 April 2014). "Scotland's secret tunnel under the Forth, 50 years old and forgotten". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
5. "Scottish University Charter Approved". The Times. No. 56046. London. 24 June 1964. p. 7.
6. "1964 General election results summary". UK Political Info. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
7. "Glasgow 2014 - Shona Marshall Profile". g2014results.thecgf.com. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
8. "Olympedia – Yvonne Murray". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
9. Ewan, Elizabeth L.; Innes, Sue; Reynolds, Sian; Pipes, Rose (2007). Biographical Dictionary of ScottishWomen. Edinburgh University Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-7486-2660-1.