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List of events
Events from the year 2002 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Falkirk Wheel
February –
2002 Winter Olympics : the gold medal in women's
curling is won by an all-Scottish team representing Great Britain in
Salt Lake City
skipped by
Rhona Martin .
[1]
14 March –
Stirling is granted
city status in the United Kingdom by the Queen to mark her Golden Jubilee.
[2]
10 February – the preschool television series
Balamory made by
BBC Scotland is first broadcast, nationally.
14 March – appeal of
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi against a conviction for murder in connection with the
1988 bombing of
Pan Am Flight 103 over
Lockerbie is rejected and the
Scottish Court in the Netherlands is decommissioned.
19 March – a
lesbian couple are granted
parental rights over their children by an Edinburgh court.
[3]
29 March –
coal mining in
Scotland , which has a history stretching back more than 800 years,
[4] comes to an end with the closure of
Longannet coal mine in
Fife after its owners go into liquidation following flooding, putting more than 500 people out of work.
[5]
1 May –
Airdrieonians , of the
Scottish Football League
Division One , go into liquidation with debts of £3million.
[6]
7 May – Prime Minister
Tony Blair unveils
a statue of
Donald Dewar on
Buchanan Street in
Glasgow city centre .
[7]
May – the
Scottish Parliament meets during this month in the
University of Aberdeen .
[8]
24 May –
Falkirk Wheel
boat lift opens in
Scotland , also marking reopening of the
Union Canal for leisure traffic.
28 May – the
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 receives royal assent.
9 July –
Clydebank F.C. of the
Scottish Football League Second Division become defunct after a takeover by the owners of the new
Airdrie United club, who take their place in the Scottish league.
[9]
24 July –
Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park created, Scotland's first
national park .
[10]
30 July –
2002 Glasgow floods result from heavy rain overnight.
1 August – the
Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 2002 , that bans traditional
fox hunting and
hare coursing , comes into effect.
Millennium Bridge, Glasgow , opens to pedestrians.
Deaths
8 March –
Hamish Henderson , folk song collector (born
1919 )
30 March –
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother dies aged 101 at
Royal Lodge ,
Windsor .
[11]
27 May –
Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson , historian and palaeographer (born
1909 )
[12]
5 July –
Jannette Anderson , academic (born
1927 )
19 September –
Rosalind Mitchison , historian (born
1919 )
October –
William Dysart , actor (born
1929 )
9 November –
Neil MacCallum , political activist and poet (born
1954 )
10 December –
Ian MacNaughton , Scottish actor, director, and producer (born
1925 )
The arts
See also
References
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