1968 in Scotland
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{{Year in Scotland| 1968 }}
Events from the year 1968 in Scotland.
Incumbents
{{further|Politics of Scotland|Order of precedence in Scotland}}
= Law officers =
- Lord Advocate – Henry Wilson
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Ewan Stewart
= Judiciary =
Events
- 15 January – 1968 Scotland storm ("Great Glasgow storm") leaves 20 dead across central Scotland including 9 in Glasgow.{{cite web|url=http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/o/5/Great_Glasgow_Storm_-_15_January_1968.pdf |title=Monday 15 January 1968 |publisher=Met Office |access-date=2013-03-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227072049/http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/o/5/Great_Glasgow_Storm_-_15_January_1968.pdf |archive-date=27 February 2014 }}
- February – 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 – Reporting Scotland, BBC Scotland's national television news programme, is broadcast for the first time.
- 14 May – Murder of Maxwell Garvie: Mariticide in Kincardineshire.{{cite news|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/the-sins-of-my-mother-1-595767|title=The sins of my mother|newspaper=The Scotsman|date=2002-02-01|access-date=2014-03-17}}
- 18 May – Declaration of Perth: Conservative Party leader, Edward Heath proposes a directly elected Scottish Assembly.{{cite news|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/four-decades-on-declaration-of-perth-is-still-fuelling-debate-1-1169195|title=Four decades on, Declaration of Perth is still fuelling debate|newspaper=The Scotsman|date=2014-02-26|access-date=2013-03-24}}
- 22 May – The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland permits the ordination of women as ministers.{{cite news|title=Ordination of women is approved|newspaper=The Times|location=London|date=1968-05-23|page=3|issue=57258}}
- 4 June – General Post Office introduces the first postbus in Scotland, Dunbar–Innerwick–Spott, East Lothian.
- 18 November – James Watt Street fire: A warehouse fire in Glasgow kills 22.{{cite web|title=James Watt Street Fire |url=http://www.sunnygovan.com/PLACES/Places/JamesWattStreetFire.html |work=SunnyGovan |access-date=2010-07-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100603202611/http://www.sunnygovan.com/PLACES/Places/JamesWattStreetFire.html |archive-date=3 June 2010 |url-status=dead }}
- Bluevale and Whitevale Towers, 298 ft (90.8 m) blocks of flats, completed in Glasgow.
Births
- 31 January – John Collins, international footballer
- 4 March – Christina McKelvie, Scottish Government minister (died 2025)
- 16 March – David MacMillan, Scottish-born organic chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 26 April – Daniela Nardini, actress
- 4 July – Ronni Ancona, comic actress
- 5 August – Colin McRae, rally driver (killed in helicopter accident 2007){{cite web|title=Colin McRae|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/colin-mcrae-402610.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/colin-mcrae-402610.html |archive-date=1 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|website=The Independent|access-date=12 January 2018|date=17 September 2007}}{{cbignore}}
- 2 September – David Dinsmore, journalist{{cite news|title=Birthdays today: Salma Hayek|url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/england/london-travel/birthdays-today-salma-hayek-3lb8gzz355r|access-date=21 February 2014|newspaper=The Times|date=2 September 2013|quote=David Dinsmore, editor, The Sun, 45}}
- 6 September – Christopher Brookmyre, detective novelist
- 25 October – Jason Leitch, National Clinical Director of the Scottish Government
- 22 November – Sarah Smith, television and radio news reporter
- 23 November – Kirsty Young, television and radio presenter
- 28 December – Pauline Robertson, field hockey player
- Andrew O'Hagan, writer
- Frank Quitely (Vincent Deighan), comic book artist
Deaths
- 17 February – Alexander Gray, economist, poet and translator (born 1882)
- 7 April – Jim Clark, racing car driver (born 1936; killed in motor racing accident)
- 12 September – Tommy Armour, golfer (born 1894)
- 13 November – Joe Corrie, miner, poet and playwright (born 1894)