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14 November
Dounreay fast breeder reactor goes online
03 February
Inventor of self-adhesive postage stamps is born
08 September
John Porteous isn’t executed as he’s already dead
21 December
Pan Am flight 103 bombed over Lockerbie
17 November
Birth of James Matheson, owner of Lewis
