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List of events
Events from the year 2011 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
January
1 January – The
United Nations is to examine claims of ownership of the Scottish island of
Rockall , after a request from Denmark, which has sovereignty over the neighbouring
Faroes
[1]
[2]
1 January – A soldier serving with the
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders is killed in an explosion near to the Nahr-e Saraj district of
Helmand Province , in Afghanistan
[3]
1 January – approximately 140 people take part in the annual
Loony Dook in the Firth of Forth, at South Queensferry
[4]
2 January – At the
Old Firm game , Rangers and Celtic, represented by
John Greig and
Billy McNeill respectively, pay their respects to the 66 victims of the
Ibrox Disaster in 1971
[5]
2 January – The
Montenegrin Embassy in London writes to Scottish Labour leader
Iain Gray , correcting factual inaccuracies and asking him to explain comments he made during
First Minister's Questions in December 2010, about the country being involved in "war crimes", "ethnic cleansing" and "a United Nations peace-keeping mission"
[6]
[7]
2 January – The publishers of the
Sunday Herald newspaper announce that it is to be relaunched as a
weekly news magazine
[8]
3 January –
Gary Anderson is the runner-up at the
World Darts Championship
[9]
5 January – The
Rosyth – Zeebrugge ferry service , the country's only direct
ro-ro ferry route to
mainland Europe , re-opens as a freight-only service
[10]
5 January – A rare
bittern (Botaurus stellaris ), which last bred in the country c. 1830, is sighted at
RSPB Scotland 's
Insh Marshes nature reserve in
Strathspey
[11]
18 January – The installation of replicas of the 37 Stirling Heads is completed at the
King's Inner Hall at Stirling Castle
23 January – an
earthquake measuring 3.5 magnitude is recorded at
Glenuig , 25 miles (40 km) west of
Fort William
[12]
25 January –
Andy Gray is dismissed from
Sky Sports
[13]
26 January –
Tommy Sheridan is sentenced to three years in prison for
lying on oath during the
Sheridan v News International case in 2006
[14]
27 January – the
Scotland Bill receives an unopposed
second reading in the House of Commons, with the Secretary of State for Scotland
Michael Moore describing the legislation as the largest transfer of fiscal powers from central Government since the
creation of the United Kingdom .
[15]
27 January – a
Tornado GR4 jet from
RAF Lossiemouth ditches in
Loch Ewe , with the 2 crew ejecting shortly before the crash
[16]
29 January – a climber survives after falling 1000 feet from Sgurr Choinnich Mor, part of the
Grey Corries range in
Lochaber
[17]
February
March
April
May
This is the first time ever that any party has secured a majority since devolution was established in 1999.
[21]
June
July
August
10 August – Police from Scotland are being sent to England to help combat riots and disorder.
[29]
31 August – Critics of the proposed £400,000,000
Aberdeen bypass , who have already delayed the project since it won approval in December 2009, decide to press ahead with a fresh legal challenge after a recent appeal at the Court of Session was rejected.
[30]
September
October
November
December
Undated
Deaths
4 January –
Gerry Rafferty (born
1947 ), singer-songwriter
[52]
11 January –
Kenneth Stevenson (born
1949 ),
Bishop of Portsmouth
22 January –
Chandos Blair (born
1919 )
General Officer Commanding Scotland (1972–76)
24 January –
Alec Boden (born
1925 ), footballer
24 January –
Phil Gallie (born
1939 ), Conservative & Unionist MP and MSP
[53]
30 January –
Ian R. Porteous (born
1930 ), mathematician
1 February –
Len Fyfe (born
1941 ), Labour peer
1 February –
Tom Jarvie (born
1916 ), footballer, veterinary surgeon and television personality
1 February –
Derek Rawcliffe (born
1921 ),
Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway (1981–1991)
10 February –
Lynne Walker (born
1956 ), music and theatre critic
12 February –
James Elliott (born
1928 ), theatre and television actor
21 February –
Anne Mathams (born
1913 ), educationist and disability rights activist
22 February –
Brian Bonsor (born
1926 ), composer and music teacher
10 March –
Danny Paton (born
1936 ), footballer, who played for
Heart Of Midlothian and
Oxford United
11 March –
David Brown (born
1941 ), international cricketer
13 March –
Roy Flatt (born
1947 ),
Dean of Argyll and the Isles (1999–2005)
31 March –
Ishbel MacAskill (born
1941 ), singer
6 April –
Jim Blair (born
1947 ), footballer
10 April –
Jimmy Briggs (born
1937 ), footballer
11 April –
Doug Newlands (born
1931 ), footballer
12 April –
Ronnie Coyle (born
1964 ), footballer
20 April –
Allan Brown (born
1926 ), football player and manager
28 April –
Willie O'Neill (born
1940 ), footballer
30 April –
Eddie Turnbull (born
1923 ), football player and manager
5 May –
Tommy Wright (born
1928 ), footballer
7 May –
Dougie McCracken (born
1964 ), footballer
9 May –
David Cairns (born
1966 ), Labour MP
12 May –
Noreen Murray (born
1935 ), professor of molecular genetics at the University of Edinburgh
14 May –
Ernie Walker (born
1928 ),
Scottish Football Association administrator
21 May –
Gordon McLennan (born
1924 ), General Secretary of the
Communist Party of Great Britain (1975–1990)
27 May –
Janet Brown (born
1923 ), actress, comedian and impressionist
8 June –
John Mackenzie (born
1928 ), film director
23 June –
Ronnie McCluskey (born
1936 ), footballer
26 June –
Alan Rodger, Baron Rodger of Earlsferry , Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
9 August –
George Scott Wallace (born
1929 ), British Columbia physician and politician
23 November –
Gerald Laing (born 1936 in England), pop artist and sculptor
5 December –
Celia Whitelaw, Viscountess Whitelaw (born
1917 ), philanthropist
The arts
See also
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"In pictures: Loony Dook 2011" .
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"Earthquake hits west of Scotland" . BBC News . BBC. 23 January 2011.
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Gerry Rafferty dies at age of 63 BBC News, 4 December 2011
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