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23 October
Tyre inventor John Boyd Dunlop dies
30 October
Tay Bridge designer dies of anxiety
11 August
Formal opening of the West Highland Railway
30 September
Rod Stewart opens the SSE Hydro
19 May
Lord Leverhulme buys the Isle of Lewis
