1. Incumbents
     Law officers    Judiciary  

2. Events

3. Births

4. Deaths

5. The arts

6. See also

7. References

Events from the year 1960 in Scotland.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Elizabeth II
• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – John Maclay

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – William Rankine Milligan; then William Grant
• Solicitor General for Scotland – William Grant until May; then David Colville Anderson

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

• 16 January – the last regular ship on the Cork–Glasgow crossing runs, ending a 103-year-old service.
• 2 March – Elvis Presley stops off at Glasgow Prestwick Airport for a few hours on his journey home to the United States, after doing military service in West Germany. This is notable for being the only time he ever visited the UK.^[1] His ancestor, blacksmith Andrew Presley, migrated from Lonmay to North Carolina in 1745.^[2]
• 14 March – Jock Stein is appointed manager of Dunfermline Athletic F.C.
• 28 March – Cheapside Street Whisky Bond Fire in Glasgow: 19 firemen killed in Britain's worst peacetime fire services disaster.^[3]
• 18 May – 1960 European Cup Final at Hampden Park, Glasgow: Real Madrid C.F. defeat Eintracht Frankfurt 7-3,^[4] Rangers F.C. having been knocked out by Frankfurt in the semi-finals.
• 21 June – the Royal Highland Show opens for the first time at its permanent site, the Royal Highland Showground at Ingliston in the Lowlands.
• August – murder of the Little Ross lighthouse keeper.^[5]
• 7 September – North Ford Causeway opened, connecting North Uist and Benbecula via Grimsay (5 miles (8 km)), completing an all-weather road link between North and South Uist.^[6]
• October – Queen's Bridge in Perth opened.
• 30 October – Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplantation in the UK, at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
• 5 November – Glasgow area suburban train services electrified.
• 24 December – The rebuilt Barrowland Ballroom reopens in Glasgow.
• Seafield Colliery at Kirkcaldy opens.
• Little Houses Improvement Scheme launched by the National Trust for Scotland to promote conservation of vernacular architecture.^[7]

Births

• 11 February – Momus, born Nicholas Currie, songwriter
• 10 March – Anne MacKenzie, broadcaster
• 23 March – Nicol Stephen, Liberal Democrat MSP, leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats (2005-2008) and Deputy First Minister of Scotland (2005-2007)
• 28 April – Ian Rankin, crime novelist
• 5 May – David Nish, businessman
• 19 June – Paul Coia, television presenter
• 24 June – Elish Angiolini, née McPhilomy, Solicitor General for Scotland (2001-2006) and Lord Advocate (2006-2011)
• 30 June – Jack McConnell, First Minister of Scotland (2001-2007)
• 20 August – Annabelle Ewing, Nationalist politician and lawyer
• 6 October – Richard Jobson, rock singer-songwriter (Skids), filmmaker and television presenter
• 22 December – Elvis McGonagall, born Richard Smith, slam poet
• Benny Higgins, banker
• Katrina Porteous, poet

Deaths

• 15 August – Rachel Annand Taylor, poet (born 1876)
• 17 August – Calum Maclean, folklorist (born 1915)

The arts

• 20–28 May – The Beatles, as the Silver Beetles (uncredited), play their first ever tour, as a backing group for Johnny Gentle on a tour of Scotland opening at Alloa Town Hall and ending at Peterhead.^[8] The lineup comprises John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Edinburgh-born Stuart Sutcliffe and Tommy Moore.
• 10 August –The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art opens at Inverleith House in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.^[9]
• August – Sydney Goodsir Smith's verse play The Wallace ("a Triumph in Five Acts") has its stage première at the Edinburgh Festival in the General Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland.
• Autumn – release of Andy Stewart's recordings of "A Scottish Soldier" and "Donald Where's Your Troosers?"^[10]

See also

• 1960 in Northern Ireland

References

• The Nanny (television)
• The Nano Flower
• The Napoleon of Notting Hill
• The Nappy Roots
• Thenardite
• Thenar eminence
• The Narita Airport bombing
• Thenar muscles
• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
• The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
• The Narrow Margin
• The Narrows
• The Narrows (Zion National Park)
• The Narrow Way
• The Nashville Network
• The Nashville Teens
• The Nasty Boys
• The Nasty Boyz
• The Nasty Girl
• The Natal Advertiser
• The Natal Daily News
• The National
• The national anthem of Russia
• The national anthem of South Africa