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Events from the year 1971 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Gordon Campbell

Law officers

Lord Advocate – Norman Wylie
Solicitor General for Scotland – David Brand

Judiciary

Events

2 January – 1971 Ibrox disaster: a stairway crush at the Rangers vs. Celtic football match at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow kills 66 and leaves many more injured.^[1]
10 March – 1971 Scottish soldiers' killings: three young off-duty Royal Highland Fusiliers are lured from a bar in Belfast and shot by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
23 May – "The Unknown Bairn": The drowned body of a young boy is found washed up onshore at Tayport; he is never identified.^[2]
25 May – production begins at the Invergordon aluminium works.
15 June – Upper Clyde Shipbuilders enters liquidation.^[3]
2 July
- Royal Scots Dragoon Guards formed as the senior Scottish regiment of the British Army at Holyrood, Edinburgh, by amalgamation of the Royal Scots Greys and 3rd Carabiniers.
- Erskine Bridge opened over the River Clyde.
30 July – Upper Clyde Shipbuilders workers begin to take control of the shipyards in a work-in under the leadership of Jimmy Reid.^[4]
c. August – Kyle of Tongue Bridge and causeway opened, replacing a ferry.
16 September – Stirling and Falkirk by-election: Labour retains the seat but the Scottish National Party takes second place with a surge of 20% in their support.
21 October – Clarkston explosion: a gas explosion in Clarkston, East Renfrewshire kills at least twenty people.
22 November – Cairngorm Plateau disaster: Five children and one adult on an expedition die of exposure in the Highlands.^[5]
2 December – last resident families leave the island of Scarp.^[6]
Expansion of Erskine as a planned community begins.
Spey Bridge at Aviemore opened.
Tom Farmer opens the first Kwik Fit car servicing centre, in Edinburgh.

Births

21 January – Alan McManus, snooker player
23 March
- Kate Dickie, actress
- Gail Porter, television presenter and model
27 March – David Coulthard, racing driver
31 March – Ewan McGregor, actor
1 April – Karen Dunbar, comedian
5 April – Charles Cumming, espionage novelist
18 April – David Tennant, actor
31 July – Craig MacLean, track cyclist
19 August – Paul McGrillen, footballer (suicide 2009)
30 August – Julian Smith, Conservative politician
6 October – Brian Conaghan, young adult fiction writer
7 October – Aasmah Mir, journalist and presenter
8 October – Michelle Mone, entrepreneur
13 November – Alberto Costa, Conservative politician

Deaths

16 June – John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, broadcasting executive (born 1889)
25 June – John Boyd Orr, physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born 1880)
28 August – Edith Hughes, architect (born 1888)
12 December
- Torrance Gillick, Rangers F.C. winger (born 1915)
- Alan Morton, Rangers outside left (born 1893)
22 December – D. Alan Stevenson, lighthouse engineer and philatelist (born 1891)

The arts

26 March – BBC Scotland television begins a serialisation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song, starring Vivien Heilbron.
18 November – Stewart Conn's play The Burning, concerning King James VI of Scotland, premieres.
Douglas Hurd and Andrew Osmond's political thriller Scotch on the Rocks, concerning a terrorist group fighting for Scottish independence in the near future, is published by Collins.
English composer Peter Maxwell Davies settles in Orkney, initially on Hoy.

References

^ "1971: Sixty-six die in Scottish football disaster". BBC News. 2 January 1971. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
^ "Tayport remembers 'The Unknown Bairn' 40 years after his body was found on beach". The Courier. Dundee. 23 May 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
^ "Provisional liquidator is appointed for Upper Clyde Shipbuilders". The Times. No. 58200. London. 16 June 1971. p. 18.
^ Murray, Ian (31 July 1971). "Workers seize control of shipyard on the Clyde". The Times. No. 58238. London. p. 1.
^ "1971: Six dead in Scottish mountain tragedy". BBC News. 22 November 1971. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
^ "The Lost Islands". Stornoway: Comhairle nan Eilean Siar. 29 August 2013. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2014.