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22 October
Nuclear submarine runs aground off Skye
21 December
Pan Am flight 103 bombed over Lockerbie
29 May
Cardinal David Beaton is assassinated at St Andrews
31 March
Edinburgh architect Robert Morham is born
09 December
Cumbernauld is designated a New Town