History

Alan Wells won Olympic
Alan Wells won Olympic Allan Wipper Wells MBE (born 3 May 1952) is a Scottish former track and field sprinter who became the 100 metres Olympic champion at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. …

Bagpiper John Wilson dies, Willowdale, Ontario
Bagpiper John Wilson dies, Willowdale, Ontario John Wilson, Scottish born who emigrated to Toronto, Canada in the late 1940s at the prompting of George R. Duncan. …

Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band officially disbands on their 50th anniversary, 1978
Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band officially disbands on their 50th anniversary, 1978 Muirhead and Sons Pipe Band, founded in 1928, was a pipe band based in Grangemouth, Scotland. The band was named after, and affiliated with, the company Muirhead & Sons, a sawmill based in Grangemouth and founded by George A. Muirhead in the 1880s …

Poet and Nationalist C M Grieve (Hugh MacDiarmid) died.
Poet and Nationalist C M Grieve (Hugh MacDiarmid) died. …

Peru defeated Scotland, 3-1 in the football World Cup in Argentina.
Peru defeated Scotland, 3-1 in the football World Cup in Argentina. …

Start of firemens strike which lasted for two months; cover was provided by the army with their out of date green goddess fire engines.
Start of firemens strike which lasted for two months; cover was provided by the army with their out of date green goddess fire engines. The nationwide firefighters’ strike occurred between 1977 and early 1978, months prior to the Winter of Discontent. …

Damage estimated to cost £15,000 caused by fans who dug up the pitch at Wembley after Scotland defeated England, 2-1.
Damage estimated to cost £15,000 caused by fans who dug up the pitch at Wembley after Scotland defeated England, 2-1. …

Bobby Sands dies at Long Kesh prison on the 66th day of his hunger strike
Bobby Sands dies at Long Kesh prison on the 66th day of his hunger strike Robert Gerard Sands, commonly known as Bobby Sands (9 March 1954 – 5 May 1981) was an Irish republican and a former MP who died on hunger strike in the prison officially called HM Prison Maze but formerly known as Long Kesh (a name still used by Irish Republicans). …

David Wilkie won Olympic Gold
David Wilkie won Olympic Gold David Andrew Wilkie MBE (born 8 March 1954) is a Scottish former competitive swimmer who was Olympic and Commonwealth Games champion in the 1970s. He is the only person to have held British, American, Commonwealth, European, world and Olympic swimming titles at the same time and was the first British swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal since Anita Lonsbrough in 1960. …

Roman Emperor Hadrian, born
Roman Emperor Hadrian, born Hadrian (24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. Hadrian was born in Italica, close to modern Seville in Spain, an Italic settlement in Hispania Baetica; his branch of the Aelia gens, the Aeli Hadriani, came from the town of Hadria in eastern Italy. He was a member of the Nerva-Antonine dynasty. …