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23 July
The Commonwealth Games open in Glasgow
21 December
Pan Am flight 103 bombed over Lockerbie
19 May
Lord Leverhulme buys the Isle of Lewis
28 August
University of St Andrews is established by a Papal Bull
24 May
The Falkirk Wheel opens for business
