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20 August
Cartoonist Dudley D Watkins dies in Broughty Ferry
04 May
Greyfriars Bobby is born
26 May
Scotland’s first commercial railway signed off
30 September
Rod Stewart opens the SSE Hydro
24 January
Wall-building emperor Hadrian is born