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Lulu and the Eurovision Song Contest
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13th May
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How Glasgow came close to landing the Eurovision Song Contest 2023
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10th May
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Who was Jessie Newbery and what was her influence on Scottish art?
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27th April
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Inventor of the Mackintosh is born
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29th December
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Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy is born
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23rd December
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First episode of Rab C Nesbitt broadcast
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22nd December
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Glasgow Subway runs its first services
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14th December
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Castlecary rail crash kills 35
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10th December
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A Scot becomes Britain’s first Prime Minister
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5th December
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BBC establishes the Scottish Symphony Orchestra
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1st December
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Comedian Billy Connolly is born
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24th November
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BBC Radio Scotland goes on air
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23rd November
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Architect Basil Spence dies
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19th November
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Singer Sharleen Spiteri is born
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7th November
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Celtic FC is founded
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6th November
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Singer Lulu is born
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3rd November
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Death of the founder of the University of Aberdeen
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25th October
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Five killed as stalled train and express collide
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22nd October
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Gaelic poet and author Iain Crichton Smith dies
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15th October
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Death of SNP founder John MacCormick
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13th October
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Final appeal of the ‘Lockerbie bomber’
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11th October
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Scotland carries out its last female execution
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10th October
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Nelson Mandela thanks Glasgow
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9th October
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The City of Glasgow Bank collapses
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2nd October
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Rod Stewart opens the SSE Hydro
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30th September
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First episode of River City broadcast
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24th September
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Angelika Kluk last seen alive
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Peace Prize winner John Boyd Orr is born
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23rd September
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BBC Pacific Quay opens
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20th September
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BBC Alba takes to the air
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19th September
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Taggart arrives on British screens
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6th September
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Scottish Television takes to the air
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31st August
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Glasgow’s Kilbirnie Street fire kills firefighters
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25th August
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Political martyr Thomas Muir is born
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24th August
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First scheduled flights at Barra Airport
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7th August
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Glasgow Central Station receives its first trains
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1st August
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Doomed paddle steamer PS Comet is launched
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24th July
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The Commonwealth Games open in Glasgow
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23rd July
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Commuter trains crash at Newton
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21st July
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Convict championed by Arthur Conan Doyle is released
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20th July
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Trial that led to Glasgow’s last public execution
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19th July
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Paraffin Young dies at Wemyss Bay
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13th July
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Glasgow-born Ian Brady commits first Moors Murder
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12th July
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Train crash demolishes Largs railway station
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11th July
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Madame Ecosse is born in Glasgow
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10th July
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Glasgow Cathedral is consecrated
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7th July
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Glasgow Science Centre opens
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5th July
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SS Daphne sinks upon launch, killing 124
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3rd July
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Glasgow Airport comes under attack
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30th June
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Painter and etcher David Young Cameron is born
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28th June
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The Queen officially opens Glasgow Airport
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27th June
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Jilted Dorothea Christina Thomas is born
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26th June
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Inventor and physicist Lord Kelvin is born
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Architectural designer Thomas S Tait is born
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18th June
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Serial killer Archibald Hall is born
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17th June
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Author MC Beaton is born
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10th June
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Lighthouse pioneer Robert Stevenson is born
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8th June
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Designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh is born
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7th June
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Landslide derails train at Falls of Crachan
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6th June
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STV returns to Scottish airwaves
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30th May
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Tearoom founder Catherine Cranston is born in Glasgow
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27th May
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“The Disruption” splits the Church of Scotland
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18th May
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Tea magnate Thomas Lipton is born
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10th May
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The Empire Exhibition opens in Glasgow
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3rd May
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Renfrew Airport’s last flight departs
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2nd May
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Skiffle singer Lonnie Donegan is born
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29th April
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South Glasgow University Hospital takes its first patients
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27th April
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Artist and embroiderer Jessie Newbery dies
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Livingston is designated a New Town
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16th April
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Actor Robert Carlyle is born in Glasgow
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14th April
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The Stone of Destiny is recovered
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11th April
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Campaigner Willie McRae dies after being shot in the Highlands
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7th April
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Stand collapse kills 25 at Ibrox Park
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5th April
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The Radical War begins
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1st April
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Firemen are killed at a whisky bond house explosion
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28th March
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Artist and suffragist Ann Macbeth dies
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23rd March
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The inventor of the electric toaster is born
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20th March
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Captain Alexander Allan dies in Glasgow
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18th March
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Oceanographer John Murray killed in a car crash
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16th March
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Oor Wullie makes his first appearance in print
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8th March
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BBC makes its first broadcasts in Scotland
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6th March
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Caledonian Sleeper carries its first passengers
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24th February
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Bible John’s first victim discovered
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23rd February
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Scottish detective Allan Pinkerton saves Abraham Lincoln’s life
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22nd February
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HMS Goldfinch is wrecked off Orkney
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19th February
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Scotland appoints its first modern Makar
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16th February
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The father of acid rain is born
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15th February
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Police raid BBC Scotland HQ
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31st January
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Visitors are trapped in the Glasgow Tower
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29th January
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Steam pioneer James Watt is born in Greenock
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19th January
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Death of missionary Robert Reid Kalley
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17th January
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Troops are dispatched after worst storm ever recorded
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16th January
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Glasgow’s founder and patron saint dies
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13th January
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Glasgow University is founded
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7th January
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