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15 September
V&A Dundee opens its doors
25 January
Launch of The Scotsman newspaper
23 October
Tyre inventor John Boyd Dunlop dies
09 March
Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations
14 November
Dounreay fast breeder reactor goes online
