1984 in Scotland
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See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1984 in: The UK • England • Wales • Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1983–84 • 1984–85
1984 in Scottish television
Timeline of Scottish history
1984 in: The UK • England • Wales • Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1983–84 • 1984–85
1984 in Scottish television
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Events from the year 1984 in Scotland.
Law officers
Events
- 12 March – 1984/5 Miner's Strike: Polmaise Colliery is the first mine in Scotland to witness a walkout of its workers.[1]
- 16 April – Culmination of the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars with the murder by arson of six members of the Doyle family.
- 3 May – 1984/5 miner's strike: Nearly 300 miners are arrested outside Ravenscraig in clashes with police as they try to stop lorries laden with coal entering.[2]
- 14 June – Elections to the European Parliament result in Labour gaining three seats from the Conservatives to win 5 of the 8 seats in Scotland, with the Conservatives reduced to two and the SNP retaining the one they previously held.[3]
- 30 July – Polmont rail accident at Polmont, near Falkirk, when an express train from Edinburgh to Glasgow, travelling at high speed, strikes a cow on the track near Polmont station, derailing several carriages and resulting in thirteen deaths and 61 injuries.[4]
- 8 August – Official opening of Kylesku Bridge, replacing a ferry.
- August – Hutton oilfield production begins in the East Shetland Basin.
- Kellas cat identified as a hybrid.[5]
Births
- 17 January – Calvin Harris, born Adam Richard Wiles, pop singer-songwriter, record producer and DJ
- 27 February – Catriona Forrest, field hockey player
- 12 March – Neil Fachie, para-cyclist[6]
- 8 May – Martin Compston, screen actor and footballer
- 5 September – Alison Bell, field hockey player[7]
- 8 September – Finlay Wild, fell runner
- 25 October – Adam MacKenzie, field hockey defender
- 30 November – Alan Hutton, footballer
Deaths
- 28 March – Jimmy McGowan, footballer (born 1924)
- 15 April – Alexander Trocchi, writer (born 1925)
- 6 September – Donny MacLeod, TV presenter (born 1932; heart attack)
- 11 October – Benno Schotz, sculptor (born 1891 in Germany)
- date unknown
- Jean Bain of Crathie, Aberdeenshire, last speaker of Deeside Gaelic (born Jean McDonald, 1890)[8]
- George Campbell Hay, poet (born 1915)
