1958 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1958 in Scotland.

Incumbents

13 March – Glasgow Kelvingrove by-election results in a Labour gain from the Conservatives
May – nuclear development: Dounreay materials test reactor achieves criticality
3 May – Aberdeen Corporation Tramways last operate, leaving Glasgow as the only system in Scotland
20 May – railway collision at Arklestone Junction, Paisley; 97 injured^[1]
7 June – Ian Donald publishes an article in The Lancet describing the diagnostic use of ultrasound in obstetrics as pioneered in Glasgow^[2]
4 July – St Ninian's Isle Treasure discovered in Shetland by schoolboy Douglas Coutts
11 July – Peter Manuel hanged at HM Prison Barlinnie for at least seven murders
18 August – Regional postage stamps of Great Britain are first issued
1 September – first of the 'Cod Wars' between the U.K. and Iceland over fishing rights breaks out
15 September – British Railways railbuses introduced on Gleneagles–Crieff–Comrie line^[3]
19 September – John Duncan Mackie is appointed Historiographer Royal
October – Thurso High School opened
21 November – construction of the Forth Road Bridge begins^[4]
5 December – Subscriber trunk dialling (STD) is inaugurated on the U.K. telephone network when The Queen dials a call from Bristol to Edinburgh and speaks to the Lord Provost^[5]
25 December – Christmas Day is a public holiday in Scotland for the first time^[6]
Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles on South Ronaldsay in Orkney first explored by Ronald Simison

30 January – Derek White, rugby player^[7]
9 February – Sandy Lyle, golfer
22 February – Gordon Kennedy, actor
27 March – Peter Howson, figurative painter, war artist
14 April – Peter Capaldi, screen actor
25 April – Fish (Derek William Dick), neo-progressive rock singer
26 April – John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute (John Bute or Johnny Dumfries), racing driver (died 2021)
3 June – Cameron Sharp, sprinter
17 May – Alan Rankine, musician and producer
2 August – Elaine C. Smith, comic actress
17 August – Fred Goodwin, banker
30 August – Muriel Gray, broadcaster
20 September – Maureen Baker, physician
27 September – Irvine Welsh, novelist, playwright and short story writer
Christina McAnea, trade union leader
Harry Ritchie, writer and journalist
James Robertson, novelist
Adrian Wiszniewski, figurative painter

8 January – Walter Elliot, Scottish Unionist Party MP (born 1888)
29 March – Sir William Burrell, shipowner and art collector (born 1861)
2 April – Mary Barbour, political activist, local councillor and magistrate (born 1875)
3 September – Norman Kemp Smith, philosopher (born 1872)
19 September – Sir John Dick-Lauder, 11th Baronet, soldier (born 1883 in British India)

7 May – first broadcast of the BBC television variety show The White Heather Club which airs nationally until 1968

^ Vaughan, Adrian (1989). Obstruction Danger: significant British railway accidents, 1890-1986. Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens Ltd. pp. 159–64.
^ "Ian Donald's paper in The Lancet in 1958". Archived from the original on 12 January 2008. Retrieved 27 January 2008.
^ Mackay, Stuart. "AC Cars Railbus Scottish Arrival". www.railcar.co.uk. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
^ "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 23 May 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
^ "Events in Telecommunications History – 1958". BT Archives. Archived from the original on 7 October 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
^ Houston, Rab; Houston, Robert Allan (2008). Scotland: a very short introduction. Very short introductions. Vol. 197. Oxford University Press. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-19-923079-2. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
^ "Derek Bolton White". ESPN scrum. Archived from the original on 18 January 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2022.