1942 in Scotland
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List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1942 in: The UK • Wales • Ireland • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1941–42 • 1942–43 |
Events from the year 1942 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 19 January – a Catalina flying boat crashes on the hill above Burravoe on Yell, Shetland, killing seven of her ten passengers.[1]
- 15 May – RMS Queen Mary arrives at Greenock with nearly 10,000 U.S. troops aboard.[2]
- July – military scientists begin testing of anthrax as a biological warfare agent on Gruinard Island.[3]
- 25 August – Prince George, Duke of Kent, brother of George VI, is killed in an air crash near Caithness.
- South Ford Bridge completed, connecting Benbecula to South Uist.[4]
- Monach Islands deserted. Lighthouse on Shillay unlit.[5]
Births
- 24 January – Sheila Mullen, painter
- 2 February – Roger Hynd, footballer (died 2017)
- 21 February – Magnus Linklater, journalist
- 22 February – John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard, diplomat
- 12 April – Bill Bryden, theatre director
- 8 May – Norman Lamont, Conservative politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
- May 24 – Fraser Stoddart, Scottish-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 7 June – Aonghas MacNeacail, Gaelic poet
- 8 August – Dennis Canavan, politician
- 23 October – Douglas Dunn, poet and academic
- 24 November – Billy Connolly, comedian
- 9 December – Billy Bremner, international footballer (died 1997)
- 10 December – Ann Gloag, born Ann Souter, entrepreneur
Deaths
- 10 August – Bob Kelso, footballer (born 1865)
- 4 December – Hugh Malcolm, Royal Air Force officer, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1917; killed in action over Tunisia)
The arts
- Ena Lamont Stewart's first play, the one-act Distinguished Company, is presented by the MSU Repertory Theatre in Rutherglen.
See also
References
- ↑ Penrith, James; Penrith, Deborah (2007). Orkney & Shetland. The Scottish Islands (3rd ed.). Richmond, London: Crimson Publishing. ISBN 9781854583710.
- ↑ "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 23 May 2014. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
- ↑ "Britain's 'Anthrax Island'". BBC. 2001-07-25. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
- ↑ "South Ford Causeway". Stornoway: Comhairle nan Eilean Siar. 29 September 2013. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
- ↑ "Monach". Lighhouse Library. Edinburgh: Northern Lighthouse Board. 2009. Retrieved 2016-03-13.
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