Events from the year 1968 in Scotland.
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Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 15 January â 1968 Scotland storm ("Great Glasgow storm") leaves 20 dead across central Scotland including 9 in Glasgow.
- February â 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 â Reporting Scotland, BBC Scotland's national television news programme, is broadcast for the first time.
- 14 May â Murder of Maxwell Garvie: Mariticide in Kincardineshire.
- 18 May â Declaration of Perth: Conservative Party leader, Edward Heath proposes a directly elected Scottish Assembly.
- 22 May â The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland permits the ordination of women as ministers.
- 4 June â General Post Office introduces the first postbus in Scotland, DunbarâÂÂInnerwickâÂÂSpott, East Lothian.
- 18 November â 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 â John Collins, international footballer
- 4 March â Christina McKelvie, Scottish Government minister (died 2025)
- 16 March â David MacMillan, Scottish-born organic chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 26 April â Daniela Nardini, actress
- 5 August â Colin McRae, rally driver (killed in helicopter accident 2007)
- 2 September â David Dinsmore, journalist
- 6 September â Christopher Brookmyre, detective novelist
- 25 October â Jason Leitch, National Clinical Director of the Scottish Government
- 22 November â Sarah Smith, television and radio news reporter
- 23 November â Kirsty Young, television and radio presenter
- 28 December â Pauline Robertson, field hockey player
- Andrew O'Hagan, writer
- Frank Quitely (Vincent Deighan), comic book artist
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