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Events from the year 1994 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Events
- March – Strathclyde water referendum indicates overwhelming opposition to the privatisation of water.
- 5 May – elections are held for Scotland's Regional Councils.
- 19 May – Robert Black, jailed for life four years ago for abducting a seven-year-old girl in the Scottish Borders, is found guilty of murdering three girls in the 1980s and sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended minimum term of 35 years. Black later dies in HMP Maghaberry in Northern Ireland of a heart attack in January 2016.
- 25 April – Dundee Institute of Technology elevated to the status of Abertay University.
- 2 June – Chinook crash on Mull of Kintyre: An RAF Chinook helicopter carrying more than twenty leading intelligence experts crashes on the Mull of Kintyre, killing everyone on board.[1]
- 9 June – European elections result in Labour winning six of Scotland's eight MEPs, with the SNP winning the other two.
- 25 June – The Greenock rail accident, caused by vandals placing concrete blocks on the rails, kills two people.
- 30 June – Monklands East by-election results in the Labour Party retaining the seat despite a swing of 19.2% to the SNP.
- 3 November – The Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, that will reorganise local government by creating 32 unitary authorities, receives royal assent.
- Dounreay nuclear power plant comes offline.
- Highland Theological Institute established in Dingwall.
Births
- 1 January – Craig Murray, footballer
- 14 January – Ross Murdoch, swimmer
- 8 March – Claire Emslie, footballer[2]
- 11 March - Andrew Robertson, footballer
- 12 March – Katie Archibald, cyclist[3]
- 23 March – Jack Hamilton, goalkeeper
- 10 April – Siobhan Hunter, footballer[4]
- 29 April – Stephen Milne, swimmer
- 24 May – Emily Nicholl, netball player[5]
- 11 July – Jake Wightman, middle-distance runner
- 12 September – Mhairi Black, SNP MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South
Deaths
- 6 June – Mark McManus, film and television actor (born 1935)
- Rhoda Bulter, poet (born 1929)
Arts and literature
- 9 May – release of Scottish group Wet Wet Wet's cover of the song Love Is All Around (1967), as featured in the recently released film Four Weddings and a Funeral. From 29 May it will spend 15 consecutive weeks at number one in the UK Singles Chart, the longest spell ever attained by a British act.[6]
- June – the old Empire Palace Theatre in Edinburgh reopens permanently as the Edinburgh Festival Theatre.
- 23 August – K Foundation enact K Foundation Burn a Million Quid on the Ardfin Estate on Jura.
- August – Theresa Breslin's young adult novel Whispers in the Graveyard is published.
- James Kelman's stream of consciousness novel How Late It Was, How Late, written in Glasgow patter, is published.
- Alternative rock band Snow Patrol is formed by students from Northern Ireland at the University of Dundee.[7]
See also
References
- "MI5 officers killed in helicopter crash". BBC News. 2 June 1994. Retrieved 28 January 2008.
- "Orlando Pride Sign Scotland Women's National Team Forward Claire Emslie". Orlando City. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- "Cycling Track | Athlete Profile: Katie ARCHIBALD - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games". results.gc2018.com. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
- "Siobhan Hunter - Player Profile - Football". Eurosport UK. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- "Emily Nicholl". Team Scotland. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
- Dadds, Kimberley (19 July 2007). "The UK's longest-running chart toppers". Digital Spy. Archived from the original on 10 November 2010. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
- "Ice cool band warms hearts". Northern Ireland: BBC. 29 March 2004. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
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