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Events from the year 1960 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
- Lord Advocate – William Rankine Milligan; then William Grant
- Solicitor General for Scotland – William Grant until May; then David Colville Anderson
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
- 16 January – the last regular ship on the Cork–Glasgow crossing runs, ending a 103-year-old service.
- 2 March – Elvis Presley stops off at Glasgow Prestwick Airport for a few hours on his journey home to the United States, after doing military service in West Germany. This is notable for being the only time he ever visited the UK.[1] His ancestor, blacksmith Andrew Presley, migrated from Lonmay to North Carolina in 1745.[2]
- 14 March – Jock Stein is appointed manager of Dunfermline Athletic F.C.
- 28 March – Cheapside Street Whisky Bond Fire in Glasgow: 19 firemen killed in Britain's worst peacetime fire services disaster.[3]
- 18 May – 1960 European Cup Final at Hampden Park, Glasgow: Real Madrid C.F. defeat Eintracht Frankfurt 7-3,[4] Rangers F.C. having been knocked out by Frankfurt in the semi-finals.
- 21 June – the Royal Highland Show opens for the first time at its permanent site, the Royal Highland Showground at Ingliston in the Lowlands.
- August – murder of the Little Ross lighthouse keeper.[5]
- 7 September – North Ford Causeway opened, connecting North Uist and Benbecula via Grimsay (5 miles (8 km)), completing an all-weather road link between North and South Uist.[6]
- October – Queen's Bridge in Perth opened.
- 30 October – Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplantation in the UK, at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
- 5 November – Glasgow area suburban train services electrified.
- 24 December – The rebuilt Barrowland Ballroom reopens in Glasgow.
- Seafield Colliery at Kirkcaldy opens.[7]
- Little Houses Improvement Scheme launched by the National Trust for Scotland to promote conservation of vernacular architecture.[8]
Births
- 11 February – Momus, born Nicholas Currie, songwriter
- February – Lesley Riddoch, political journalist and broadcaster
- 10 March – Anne MacKenzie, broadcast journalist
- 23 March – Nicol Stephen, Liberal Democrat MSP, leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats (2005-2008) and Deputy First Minister of Scotland (2005-2007)
- 28 April – Ian Rankin, crime novelist
- 5 May – David Nish, businessman
- 19 June – Paul Coia, television presenter
- 24 June – Elish Angiolini, née McPhilomy, Solicitor General for Scotland (2001-2006) and Lord Advocate (2006-2011)
- 30 June – Jack McConnell, First Minister of Scotland (2001-2007)
- 20 August – Annabelle Ewing, Nationalist politician and lawyer
- 26 September – Stephen Kerr, Conservative politician
- 6 October – Richard Jobson, rock singer-songwriter (Skids), filmmaker and television presenter
- 12 December – Benny Higgins, banker
- 22 December – Elvis McGonagall, born Richard Smith, slam poet
- Katrina Porteous, poet
Deaths
- 15 August – Rachel Annand Taylor, poet (born 1876)
- 17 August – Calum Maclean, folklorist (born 1915)
- 24 August – Charlotte Ainslie, educationalist and headmistress (born 1863)[9]
The arts
- 20–28 May – The Beatles, as the Silver Beetles (uncredited), play their first ever tour, as a backing group for Johnny Gentle on a tour of Scotland opening at Alloa Town Hall and ending at Peterhead.[10] The lineup comprises John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Edinburgh-born Stuart Sutcliffe and Tommy Moore.
- 10 August – The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art opens at Inverleith House in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.[11]
- August – Sydney Goodsir Smith's verse play The Wallace ("a Triumph in Five Acts") has its stage première at the Edinburgh Festival in the General Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland.
- Autumn – release of Andy Stewart's recordings of "A Scottish Soldier" and "Donald Where's Your Troosers?"[12]
See also
References
- ^ "1960 - Elvis Presley stops off at Prestwick". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
- ^ "Elvis roots 'lead to Scotland'". BBC News. 23 March 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
- ^ "Chronology of Scottish History". A Timeline of Scottish History. Rampant Scotland. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
- ^ "The greatest matches of all time". The Daily Telegraph. London. 4 July 2007. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ Collin, David R. (2010). "The Ross Island Lighthouse Murder". Kirkcudbright Community Website. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
- ^ "North Ford Causeway". Stornoway: Comhairle nan Eilean Siar. 29 August 2013. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
- ^ "100 Weeks of Scotland: Coal industry". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- ^ "A History of the Little Houses Improvement Scheme". National Trust for Scotland. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
- ^ Ewan, Elizabeth; Pipes, Rose; Rendall, Jane; Reynolds, Siân (eds.). The new biographical dictionary of Scottish women. Edinburgh University Press. p. 8. ISBN 9781474436281.
- ^ "Tours & Performances". The Official Johnny Gentle Website. 2003. Archived from the original on 28 May 2015. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
- ^ "Scotland's New Gallery: Modern Painting and Sculpture". The Times. No. 54842. London. 5 August 1960. p. 11.
- ^ "A Scottish Soldier". Andy Stewart: An Illustrated Record. Retrieved 9 May 2014.