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06 August
Publisher DC Thomson is born
04 December
First and last editions of comic The Dandy are published
21 October
First release of Grand Theft Auto
24 February
Caledonian Sleeper carries its first passengers
23 October
Tyre inventor John Boyd Dunlop dies