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04 September
Queen Elizabeth II opens the Forth Road Bridge
04 May
Greyfriars Bobby is born
08 September
John Porteous isn’t executed as he’s already dead
23 July
The Commonwealth Games open in Glasgow
25 January
Poet Robert Burns is born in Ayrshire