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20 August
Cartoonist Dudley D Watkins dies in Broughty Ferry
11 August
Formal opening of the West Highland Railway
14 November
Dounreay fast breeder reactor goes online
07 January
Glasgow University is founded
22 October
Nuclear submarine runs aground off Skye
