List of events
Events from the year 1960 in Scotland .
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16 January – the last regular ship on the Cork –Glasgow crossing runs, ending a 103-year-old service.
2 March – Elvis Presley stops off at Glasgow Prestwick Airport for a few hours on his journey home to the United States , after doing military service in West Germany . This is notable for being the only time he ever visited the UK.[1] His ancestor, blacksmith Andrew Presley, migrated from Lonmay to North Carolina in 1745 .[2]
14 March – Jock Stein is appointed manager of Dunfermline Athletic F.C.
28 March – Cheapside Street Whisky Bond Fire in Glasgow: 19 firemen killed in Britain's worst peacetime fire services disaster.[3]
18 May – 1960 European Cup Final at Hampden Park , Glasgow: Real Madrid C.F. defeat Eintracht Frankfurt 7-3,[4] Rangers F.C. having been knocked out by Frankfurt in the semi-finals.
21 June – the Royal Highland Show opens for the first time at its permanent site, the Royal Highland Showground at Ingliston in the Lowlands .
August – murder of the Little Ross lighthouse keeper.[5]
7 September – North Ford Causeway opened, connecting North Uist and Benbecula via Grimsay (5 miles (8 km)), completing an all-weather road link between North and South Uist .[6]
October – Queen's Bridge in Perth opened.
30 October – Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplantation in the UK, at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary .
5 November – Glasgow area suburban train services electrified.
24 December – The rebuilt Barrowland Ballroom reopens in Glasgow.
Seafield Colliery at Kirkcaldy opens.[7]
Little Houses Improvement Scheme launched by the National Trust for Scotland to promote conservation of vernacular architecture .[8]
7 February – Steve Bronski , born Steve Forrest, synth-pop keyboardist (died 2021)
11 February – Momus , born Nicholas Currie, songwriter
February – Lesley Riddoch , political journalist and broadcaster
10 March – Anne MacKenzie , broadcast journalist
23 March – Nicol Stephen , Liberal Democrat MSP, leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats (2005-2008) and Deputy First Minister of Scotland (2005-2007)
3 April – Shona McIsaac , Labour politician[9]
28 April – Ian Rankin , crime novelist
5 May – David Nish , businessman
19 June – Paul Coia , television presenter
24 June – Elish Angiolini , née McPhilomy, Solicitor General for Scotland (2001-2006) and Lord Advocate (2006-2011)
30 June – Jack McConnell , First Minister of Scotland (2001-2007)
20 August – Annabelle Ewing , Nationalist politician and lawyer
10 September – Margaret Ferrier , Scottish National Party politician[10]
26 September – Stephen Kerr , Conservative politician
6 October – Richard Jobson , rock singer-songwriter (Skids ), filmmaker and television presenter
12 December – Benny Higgins , banker
22 December – Elvis McGonagall , born Richard Smith, slam poet
Katrina Porteous , poet
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