1964 in Scotland

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See also:	List of years in Scotland; Timeline of Scottish history; 1964 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere; Scottish football: 1963–64 • 1964–65; 1964 in Scottish television

Events from the year 1964 in Scotland.

Incumbents

11 January – Nationwide UK teenage girls' magazine Jackie is first published by DC Thomson of Dundee.^[1]
29 April – 1964 Aberdeen typhoid outbreak: All schools in Aberdeen are closed following 136 cases of typhoid being reported.
30 April – Breakthrough on 2.5-mile (4.0 km) tunnel 500 metres (1,600 ft) under the Firth of Forth to link the colliery at Valleyfield, Fife, to the modern coal processing facilities at Kinneil colliery near Bo'ness.^[2]^[3]^[4]
14 May – Rutherglen by-election: Labour gains seat from the Conservatives.
20 May – 1964 Aberdeen typhoid outbreak begins.
23 June – University of Strathclyde chartered.^[5]
4 September – The Forth Road Bridge opens across the Firth of Forth, connecting Fife and Edinburgh.
22 September – Hunterston A nuclear power station opens.
15 October – United Kingdom general election: Labour defeats Sir Alec Douglas-Home's Conservatives^[6] and the Unionist Party in Scotland loses eight seats.
20 November – The first part of the M8 motorway between Glasgow and Edinburgh is opened.
HMNB Clyde established by the Royal Navy at Faslane on the Gare Loch.
William Grant & Sons first market their Glenfiddich distillery Speyside single malt whisky in bottles internationally.

2 January – Michael McCann, lawyer and politician
29 January – Roddy Frame, singer-songwriter and guitarist
2 February – Susan Deacon, Labour politician and MSP (1999–2007)
12 February – Stephen Carter, businessman and politician
19 February – Jim McInally, international footballer and manager
7 March – Tommy Sheridan, socialist politician and MSP (1999–2007)
13 April – John Swinney, Scottish National Party leader and government minister
18 April – Niall Ferguson, historian
24 May – Liz McColgan, athlete
31 May – Billy Davies, footballer and manager
27 June – Shona Marshall, sport shooter^[7]
1 August – Fiona Hyslop, Scottish National Party MSP (1999– ) and government minister
9 September – John Hughes, footballer and manager
4 October – Yvonne Murray, middle- and long-distance runner^[8]
8 October – James Grant, new wave singer-songwriter
13 November – Paul McBride, criminal lawyer (died 2012)
11 December – Justin Currie, singer-songwriter
25 December – Gary McAllister, international footballer, manager and coach
Dorothy Bain, Lord Advocate
Stephen Conroy, painter
Aminatta Forna, novelist
Jim Lambie, installation artist
Gillian Reid, chemist
Alan Warner, novelist

^ McRobbie, Angela (1991). Feminism and Youth Culture: from "Jackie" to "Just Seventeen". Basingstoke: Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-45263-9.
^ The tunnel is closed and sealed in the 1980s. Dick, Sandra (13 May 2014). "Tunnel under Forth that linked Lothians to Fife". Edinburgh Evening News. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
^ Kelly, John (4 March 2015). "Crossing the Forth without the Forth Bridge". BBC. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
^ MacDonald, Fraser (30 April 2014). "Scotland's secret tunnel under the Forth, 50 years old and forgotten". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
^ "Scottish University Charter Approved". The Times. No. 56046. London. 24 June 1964. p. 7.
^ "1964 General election results summary". UK Political Info. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
^ "Glasgow 2014 - Shona Marshall Profile". g2014results.thecgf.com. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
^ "Olympedia – Yvonne Murray". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
^ Ewan, Elizabeth L.; Innes, Sue; Reynolds, Sian; Pipes, Rose (2007). Biographical Dictionary of ScottishWomen. Edinburgh University Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-7486-2660-1.