1928 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1928 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1928 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1927â28 ⢠1928â29
Timeline of Scottish history
1928 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1927â28 ⢠1928â29
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 11 February â formation of the National Party of Scotland, a predecessor the Scottish National Party. On 23 June it holds a demonstration at Stirling marking the anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn.[1]
- 31 March â the Scotland national football team defeat England 5â1 at Wembley Stadium.[1]
- 28 April â June: Motorcycle speedway racing staged at Celtic Park.[2]
- May
- The Scottish county of Forfarshire resolves to revert to its historic name of Angus.[3]
- Carntyne Stadium in Glasgow opened for greyhound racing. Dirt track motorcycle speedway is also staged here, as is the first Scottish Greyhound Derby.
- 1 May â the London and North Eastern Railway's Flying Scotsman steam-hauled express train begins to run non-stop over the 393 miles (632 km) of the East Coast Main Line from London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley.[4]
- 18 June â transatlantic liner SS Duchess of Richmond is launched at John Brown & Company's shipyard at Clydebank for Canadian Pacific Steamships.
- 3 July â inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first colour television transmission in Glasgow.[5]
- 20 July â Scottish Court of Criminal Appeal overturns Oscar Slater's 1909 murder conviction.
- 26 August â in Paisley, May Donoghue finds the remains of a snail in her ginger beer, leading to the landmark negligence case Donoghue v. Stevenson.[6]
- 25 October â a passenger express runs into the rear of a derailed freight train near Dinwoodie railway station with 4 deaths.[7]
- Grampian hydroelectricity scheme initiated.[8]
- First high-voltage electricity pylon for the UK National Grid is erected near Edinburgh.[9]
- Reconstruction of Paisley Abbey completed.
- Politics of Edinburgh: Progressives form a group on the local council.
Births
- 1 January â Iain Crichton Smith, poet (died 1998)
- 17 January â Matt McGinn, folk singer (died 1977)
- 29 February â Irene Sunters, actress (died 2005)
- 10 March â Alex McAvoy, actor (died 2005)
- 11 March â Sandy Mactaggart, Scottish-Canadian educator and philanthropist (died 2017)
- 4 April â Jimmy Logan, born James Allan Short, entertainer (died 2001)
- 24 April â Tommy Docherty, footballer and manager (died 2020 in England)
- 7 April â Gael Turnbull, poet (died 2004)
- 11 April â Duncan Williamson, storyteller and singer (died 2007)
- 22 May â John Mackenzie, film director (died 2011)
- 27 May â Thea Musgrave, classical composer
- 2 June â Calum Kennedy, singer (died 2006)[10]
- 5 June â James Kennaway, novelist and screenwriter (died 1968 in England)
- 29 June â Ian Bannen, actor (died 1999)[11]
- 16 July â Bryden Thomson, orchestral conductor (died 1991 in Ireland)
- 8 August â Peter Keenan, boxer (died 2000)
- 21 September â Con Devitt, Scottish-born New Zealand trade unionist (died 2014)
- 6 October â Flora MacNeil, singer in Scottish Gaelic (died 2015)[12]
- 9 October â Joseph Brady, actor (died 2001 in London)
- 28 October â Lawrie Reilly, international footballer (died 2013)
- 7 December - Kay Matheson, Gaelic scholar and one of four students involved in the 1950 removal of the Stone of Scone (died 2021)[13]
- 11 December â Andy MacMillan, architect (died 2014)
- 27 November â Sir Arnold Clark billionaire car dealer (died 2017)
- 28 December â Ian Steel, road racing cyclist (died 2015)
- John Maxwell Anderson, consultant surgeon (died 1982)
Deaths
- 2 January â Thomas McMillan, footballer (born 1866)
- 14 January â Andrew MacLeish, businessman (born 1838)
- January â Alexander Reid, art dealer (born 1854)
- 13 April â Charles Sims, painter (born 1873 in England; suicide)
- 26 May â John Burnet, classicist (born 1863)
- 28 May â Sir James William Beeman Hodsdon, Scottish surgeon, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, (born 1858)
- 26 August â Colin Campbell, film director (born 1859)[14]
- 29 October â John Macintyre, laryngologist and pioneer radiographer (born 1857)
- 13 November â Alexander William Mair, academic (born 1875; house fire)[15]
- 10 December â Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect, designer and watercolourist (born 1868; died in London)
- 24 December â Thomas Corsan Morton, painter (born 1859)
The arts
- The Fife Miner Players begin to tour Joe Corrie's play In Time o' Strife, concerning the effect of the 1926 United Kingdom general strike in the Fife Coalfield.
- Nan Shepherd's first novel The Quarry Wood is published.