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01 March
Scotland votes for an independent parliament
27 September
The Queen Mother unveils the Commando Monument
23 October
Tyre inventor John Boyd Dunlop dies
06 August
Publisher DC Thomson is born
24 February
Caledonian Sleeper carries its first passengers