1928 in Scotland
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{{Year in Scotland| 1928 }}
Events from the year 1928 in Scotland.
Incumbents
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Events
- 11 February – 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.{{cite web|title=Notable Dates in History |url=http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm |work=The Flag in the Wind |publisher=The Scots Independent |access-date=2014-07-21 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140523225830/http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm |archive-date=23 May 2014 }}
- 31 March – the Scotland national football team defeat England 5–1 at Wembley Stadium.
- 28 April – June: Motorcycle speedway racing staged at Celtic Park.{{cite book|first=Simon|last=Inglis|title=Football Grounds of Britain|year=1996|location=London|publisher=CollinsWillow|isbn=0-00-218426-5|page=432}}
- May
- The Scottish county of Forfarshire resolves to revert to its historic name of Angus.{{cite news|title=Forfarshire's New Name|newspaper=The Times|location=London|date=1928-10-24|page=8|issue=45032|quote=It was last May that the Forfarshire County Council passed a resolution...}}
- 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 – the London and North Eastern Railway's Flying Scotsman steam-hauled express train begins to run non-stop over the {{convert|393|mi|km}} of the East Coast Main Line from London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley.{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=369–370|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}
- 18 June – transatlantic liner SS Duchess of Richmond is launched at John Brown & Company's shipyard at Clydebank for Canadian Pacific Steamships.
- 3 July – inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first colour television transmission in Glasgow.{{cite book|title=The Hutchinson Factfinder|publisher=Helicon|year=1999|isbn=1-85986-000-1}}
- 20 July – Scottish Court of Criminal Appeal overturns Oscar Slater's 1909 murder conviction.
- 26 August – in Paisley, May Donoghue finds the remains of a snail in her ginger beer, leading to the landmark negligence case Donoghue v. Stevenson.{{cite book|last=Chapman|first=Matthew|title=The Snail and the Ginger Beer: the story of Donoghue v Stevenson|location=London|publisher=Wildy, Simmons & Hill|year=2010|isbn=0-85490-049-7}}
- 25 October – a passenger express runs into the rear of a derailed freight train near Dinwoodie railway station with 4 deaths.{{cite web|title=Accident at Dinwoodie - Wamphray on 25th October 1928|url=http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsummary.php?eventID=566|work=Railways Archive|access-date=2014-08-06}}
- Grampian hydroelectricity scheme initiated.{{cite book|first=W. R.|last=Kermack|title=19 Centuries of Scotland|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Johnston|year=1944|page=92}}
- First high-voltage electricity pylon for the UK National Grid is erected near Edinburgh.{{cite web|url=http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/enquiries/energy/evidence/ShawA1.pdf|format=PDF|title=Kelvin to Weir, and on to GB SYS 2005|date=2005-09-29|first=Alan|last=Shaw|publisher=Royal Society of Edinburgh|access-date=2011-01-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304090015/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/enquiries/energy/evidence/ShawA1.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2009|url-status=dead}}
- Reconstruction of Paisley Abbey completed.
- Politics of Edinburgh: Progressives form a group on the local council.
Births
- 1 January – Iain Crichton Smith, poet (died 1998)
- 17 January – Matt McGinn, folk singer (died 1977)
- 29 February – Irene Sunters, actress (died 2005)
- 10 March – Alex McAvoy, actor (died 2005)
- 11 March – Sandy Mactaggart, Scottish-Canadian educator and philanthropist (died 2017)
- 4 April – Jimmy Logan, born James Allan Short, entertainer (died 2001)
- 24 April – Tommy Docherty, footballer and manager (died 2020 in England)
- 7 April – Gael Turnbull, poet (died 2004)
- 11 April – Duncan Williamson, storyteller and singer (died 2007)
- 22 May – John Mackenzie, film director (died 2011)
- 27 May – Thea Musgrave, classical composer
- 2 June – Calum Kennedy, singer (died 2006){{cite news|last1=Wilson|first1=Brian|title=Obituary: Calum Kennedy|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/apr/22/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries|website=The Guardian|location=London|access-date=23 February 2018|language=en|date=21 April 2006}}
- 5 June – James Kennaway, novelist and screenwriter (died 1968 in England)
- 29 June – Ian Bannen, actor (died 1999){{cite web |title=Ian Bannen |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/nov/05/guardianobituaries1 |website=the Guardian |access-date=17 September 2022 |language=en |date=5 November 1999}}
- 16 July – Bryden Thomson, orchestral conductor (died 1991 in Ireland)
- 8 August – Peter Keenan, boxer (died 2000)
- 21 September – Con Devitt, Scottish-born New Zealand trade unionist (died 2014)
- 6 October – Flora MacNeil, singer in Scottish Gaelic (died 2015){{cite web |title=Flora MacNeil obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/20/flora-macneil |website=The Guardian |access-date=24 December 2020 |language=en |date=20 May 2015}}
- 9 October – Joseph Brady, actor (died 2001 in London)
- 28 October – 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){{Cite web|title=Obituary: Kay Matheson, teacher|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-kay-matheson-teacher-1568530|access-date=2021-09-22|website=www.scotsman.com|language=en}}
- 11 December – Andy MacMillan, architect (died 2014)
- 27 November – Sir Arnold Clark billionaire car dealer (died 2017)
- 28 December – Ian Steel, road racing cyclist (died 2015)
- John Maxwell Anderson, consultant surgeon (died 1982)
Deaths
- 2 January – Thomas McMillan, footballer (born 1866)
- 14 January – Andrew MacLeish, businessman (born 1838)
- January – Alexander Reid, art dealer (born 1854)
- 13 April – Charles Sims, painter (born 1873 in England; suicide)
- 26 May – John Burnet, classicist (born 1863)
- 28 May – Sir James William Beeman Hodsdon, Scottish surgeon, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, (born 1858)
- 26 August – Colin Campbell, film director (born 1859){{cite book|author1=Donald W. McCaffrey|author2=Christopher P. Jacobs|title=Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema|url=https://archive.org/details/guidetosilentyea00mcca|url-access=registration|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30345-6|pages=[https://archive.org/details/guidetosilentyea00mcca/page/65 65]–}}
- 29 October – John Macintyre, laryngologist and pioneer radiographer (born 1857)
- 13 November – Alexander William Mair, academic (born 1875; house fire){{cite book|author=John Venn|title=Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OuU54j4aT6QC&pg=PA293|date=15 September 2011|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-03614-6|pages=293}}
- 10 December – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect, designer and watercolourist (born 1868; died in London)
- 24 December – 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.