Events from the year 1968 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Willie Ross

Law officers Lord Advocate – Henry Wilson Solicitor General for Scotland – Ewan Stewart

Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grant Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Birsay

Events 15 January – 1968 Scotland storm ("Great Glasgow storm") leaves 20 dead across central Scotland including 9 in Glasgow. 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. 18 May – Declaration of Perth: Conservative Party leader, Edward Heath proposes a directly elected Scottish Assembly. 22 May – The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland permits the ordination of women as ministers. 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. 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 5 August – Colin McRae, rally driver (killed in helicopter accident 2007) 2 September – David Dinsmore, journalist 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)

See also 1968 in Northern Ireland

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