Events from the year 1958 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – John Maclay

Law officers Lord Advocate – William Rankine Milligan Solicitor General for Scotland – William Grant

Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Thomson Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Gibson

Events 13 March – Glasgow Kelvingrove by-election results in a Labour gain from the Unionists May – nuclear development: Dounreay materials test reactor achieves criticality 3 May – Aberdeen Corporation Tramways cease to operate, leaving Glasgow as the only tram network in Scotland. (The latter would close four years later in 1962) 20 May – railway collision at Arklestone Junction, Paisley; 97 injured 7 June – Ian Donald publishes an article in The Lancet describing the diagnostic use of ultrasound in obstetrics as pioneered in Glasgow 4 July – St Ninian's Isle Treasure discovered in Shetland by schoolboy Douglas Coutts 11 July – Peter Manuel hanged at HM Prison Barlinnie for at least seven murders 18 August – Regional postage stamps of Great Britain are first issued 1 September – First of the 'Cod Wars' between the UK and Iceland over fishing rights breaks out 15 September – British Railways railbuses introduced on Gleneagles–Crieff–Comrie line 19 September – John Duncan Mackie is appointed Historiographer Royal October – Thurso High School opened 21 November – Construction of the Forth Road Bridge begins. It would open on 4 September 1964, following a ceremony by Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh 5 December – Subscriber trunk dialling (STD) is inaugurated on the UK telephone network when The Queen makes a call from Bristol to Edinburgh and speaks to the Lord Provost 25 December – Christmas Day is a public holiday in Scotland for the first time Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles on South Ronaldsay in Orkney first explored by Ronald Simison

Births 30 January – Derek White, rugby player 9 February – Sandy Lyle, golfer 22 February – Gordon Kennedy, actor 27 March – Peter Howson, figurative painter, war artist 14 April – Peter Capaldi, screen actor 25 April – Fish (Derek William Dick), neo-progressive rock singer 26 April – John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute (John Bute or Johnny Dumfries), racing driver (died 2021) 3 June – Cameron Sharp, sprinter 17 May – Alan Rankine, musician and producer 2 August – Elaine C. Smith, comic actress 17 August – Fred Goodwin, banker 30 August – Muriel Gray, broadcaster 20 September – Maureen Baker, physician 27 September – Irvine Welsh, novelist, playwright and short story writer Christina McAnea, trade union leader Harry Ritchie, writer and journalist James Robertson, novelist Adrian Wiszniewski, figurative painter

Deaths 8 January – Walter Elliot, Scottish Unionist Party MP (born 1888) 29 March – Sir William Burrell, shipowner and art collector (born 1861) 2 April – Mary Barbour, political activist, local councillor and magistrate (born 1875) 3 September – Norman Kemp Smith, philosopher (born 1872) 19 September – Sir John Dick-Lauder, 11th Baronet, soldier (born 1883 in British India)

The arts 7 May – first broadcast of the BBC television variety show The White Heather Club which airs nationally until 1968

See also 1958 in Northern Ireland

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