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List of events
Events from the year 1996 in Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
13 March –
Dunblane school massacre – a gunman kills sixteen children, their teacher and himself at a primary school in
Dunblane ,
Stirling . The killer, who wounded thirteen other children and another teacher, is quickly identified as 43-year-old former scout leader Thomas Watt Hamilton.
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1 April – The
Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 takes effect with 32 unitary councils replacing the 9 Regional Councils, 53 District Councils and 3 unitary authorities that had been established under the
Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 .
18 May –
Rangers F.C. , who have already won the
Scottish Football League title, complete the Scottish double by beating
Hearts 5–1 in the
Scottish Cup
final .
5 July –
Dolly the sheep , the first mammal to have been successfully
cloned from an adult cell, is born at
The Roslin Institute in
Midlothian .
October –
The Shetland Times and
The Shetland News become involved in a landmark legal case over alleged copyright infringement and
deep linking in their
websites .
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9 November –
Irvine, North Ayrshire , is designated a New Town, the last of the five created in Scotland.
30 November (
St. Andrew's Day ) – The
Stone of Scone is installed in
Edinburgh Castle 700 years after it was removed from Scotland by King
Edward I of England .
[3]
Edinburgh Old Town and
New Town become the first
World Heritage Site in mainland Scotland.
First of the
Maggie's Centres for drop-in cancer care in the UK opens in
Edinburgh .
Births
Deaths
23 January –
Norman MacCaig , poet (born
1910 )
6 March –
Stanley Booth-Clibborn , retired bishop of Manchester (born 1924 in London)
19 March –
W. H. Murray , mountaineer and writer (born
1913 )
13 April –
George Mackay Brown , poet (born
1921 )
14 April –
David Brand, Lord Brand , advocate, sheriff and Senator of the College of Justice (born
1923 )
16 August –
Eric Cullen , actor famous for playing "Wee Burnie" in
Rab C. Nesbitt (born
1965 )
25 August –
Caroline Glachan , murder victim (born
1982 )
24 November –
Sorley MacLean , poet (born
1911 )
The arts
See also
References
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