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29 July
Refurbished National Museum of Scotland opens its doors
30 April
Ochil Hills are struck by an earthquake
28 August
Timex calls time on its Dundee factory
21 October
First release of Grand Theft Auto
23 October
Tyre inventor John Boyd Dunlop dies