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21 December
Pan Am flight 103 bombed over Lockerbie
04 December
First and last editions of comic The Dandy are published
19 May
Lord Leverhulme buys the Isle of Lewis
24 January
Wall-building emperor Hadrian is born
12 November
Edinburgh Waverley Station granted Grade A listing