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30 September
Rod Stewart opens the SSE Hydro
11 August
Formal opening of the West Highland Railway
08 September
John Porteous isn’t executed as he’s already dead
06 August
Publisher DC Thomson is born
06 March
Scott Monument architect drowns in the Union Canal