1939 in Scotland

none January 2015 July 2026 1939 Events from the year 1939 in Scotland. Incumbents Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – John Colville Law officers Lord Advocate – Thomas Mackay Cooper Solicitor General for Scotland – James Reid Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Normand Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Aitchison Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Murray Events 2 January – all-time highest attendance for a U.K. Association football league game as 118,730 people watch Rangers beat Celtic in an "Old Firm derby" played at Ibrox Park in Glasgow.Notable Dates in History http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm The Flag in the Wind The Scots Independent 2014-07-17 usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20140523225830/http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm 23 May 2014 1 May – RAF Lossiemouth formally opens. 3 September – World War II: Declaration of war by the United Kingdom on Nazi Germany. Clyde-built liner Athenia 1922 6 becomes the first civilian casualty of the war when she is torpedoed and sunk by U-30 1936 6 in the vicinity of Rockall. Of the 1,418 aboard, 98 passengers and 19 crew are killed;Brennecke Jochen The Hunters and the Hunted Naval Institute Press 2003 15–16 1-59114-091-9 the first survivors are brought in to Greenock. On 7 September, survivors are visited by John F. Kennedy, son of the US Ambassador and future 35th President of the United States.Unseen letters show how Glasgow helped JFK on road to White House https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-49557543 BBC News 2019-09-03 2019-09-03 4 September Civil servants of the Scottish Office begin to occupy its first office in Scotland, St Andrew's House on Calton Hill in Edinburgh. Several Citizens Advice Bureaux are founded in the United Kingdom to provide wartime information to the public, including Citizens Advice Edinburgh in Scotland.History of the Citizens Advice service – Citizens Advice https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/about-us/how-citizens-advice-works/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/history-of-the-citizens-advice-service/ www.citizensadvice.org.uk 2015-10-19 18 November 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20151118040555/https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/about-us/how-citizens-advice-works/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/history-of-the-citizens-advice-service/ dead 30 September – Jackie Paterson wins the British flyweight boxing title in an open-air bout in Glasgow.Jackie Paterson: World Champion 1943 A Sporting Nation http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/sportscotland/asportingnation/article/0032/ BBC November 2005 2014-07-18 14 October – World War II: HMS Royal Oak sunk by a German U-boat in Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands with the loss of 833 crew. 16 October – World War II: first enemy aircraft shot down by RAF Fighter Command, a Junkers Ju 88 brought down into the sea by Spitfires following an attack on Rosyth Naval Dockyard.George Duncan Lesser-Known Facts of World War II http://members.iinet.net.au/~gduncan/index.html 2013-05-12 17 October – World War II: first bomb lands in the U.K., at Hoy in the Orkney Islands.Peter Doyle ARP and Civil Defence in the Second World War Oxford Shire Publications 2010 978-0-7478-0765-0 9 28 October A dust explosion in the colliery at Valleyfield, Fife, kills 35 people. World War II: First enemy aircraft forced down on British soil by RAF Fighter Command, a Heinkel He 111 brought down near Humbie by a Spitfire flown by Archie McKellar following reconnaissance of the Firth of Clyde. 30 October – World War II: British battleship Nelson 28 6 is unsuccessfully attacked by U-56 1938 2 under the command of captain Wilhelm Zahn off Orkney and is hit by three torpedoes, none of which explode; Winston Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty), Admiral of the Fleet Dudley Pound (First Sea Lord) and Admiral Charles Forbes (Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet) are on board.No Phoney War Stephen Flower Stroud Amberley 2011 978-1-84868-960-2 1 December – World War II: U-21 1936 6 torpedoes Finnish vessel Mercator off Peterhead and the Norwegian Arcturus in the Firth of Forth. 2 December – World War II: Swedish cargo ship Rudolf hits a mine and sinks off St Abb's Head. 4 December – World War II: battleship Nelson 28 6 is badly damaged by a mine (laid by U-31 1936 2) at the entrance to Loch Ewe. 12 December – escorting destroyer Duchess H64 sinks after a collision with battleship Barham 04 off the Mull of Kintyre in heavy fog with the loss of 124 men.English John Amazon to Ivanhoe: British Standard Destroyers of the 1930s 1993 World Ship Society Kendal 0-905617-64-9 17 December – Danish cargo ship Bogo sinks off Fife Ness. 21 December – boom defence vessel Bayonet explodes at Leith.British naval vessels lost at sea, 1939-45, miscellaneous http://www.patriotfiles.com/index.php?name=Sections&req=viewarticle&artid=6439&page=1 The Patriot Files 2014-07-17 Spartiate is established as a Royal Navy shore establishment for Western Approaches Command at St Enoch's Hotel, Glasgow. Strathcarron Reservoir on the River Carron is completed. Births 7 March – Duncan Macmillan, art historian 16 April – Donald MacCormick, broadcast journalist (died 2009) 2 May – Mairi Hedderwick, illustrator 4 June – George Reid, politician, Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament 2003-2007 (died 2025) 8 June – Gordon Reid, actor (died 2003 in London) 9 June – Eric Fernie, art historian 11 June – Jackie Stewart, racing driver 16 July – Don Cameron, balloonist July – Wes Magee, poet and children's author (died 2021) 23 July – Donald Macgregor, marathon runner (died 2020) 29 September – Jim Baxter, international footballer (died 2001) 19 October – David Clark, Labour politician 31 October – Trish Godman, Labour politician (died 2019) 18 November – Ian McCulloch, actor Dugald Cameron, industrial designer The Mulgray Twins, Helen and Morna Mulgray, crime novelists Deaths 18 April – Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, patron and promoter of women's interests (born 1857 in London)Ewan Elizabeth Pipes Rose Rendall Jane Reynolds Siân The new biographical dictionary of Scottish women Edinburgh University Press 9781474436281 3 20 April – William Mitchell Ramsay, archaeologist and New Testament scholar (born 1851) 13 September – Henry Halcro Johnston, botanist, physician, rugby union international and Deputy Lieutenant for Orkney (born 1856) 21 September – George Washington Browne, architect (born 1853) Robert Bryden, artist and sculptor (born 1865) The arts 2 May – Molly Urquhart's repertory theatre company opens its first production, in Rutherglen.7 October 1977 Molly Urquhart dies at 71 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19771007&id=2eY9AAAAIBAJ&pg=3124,1247241 The Herald Glasgow 18 May – Cosmo Cinema opens in Glasgow as an art film theatre.100 Years of Glasgow's Amazing Cinemas Bruce Peter Edinburgh Polygon 1996 0748662103 Erik Chisholm's sonata An Riobhan Dearg is composed. Ian Niall's novel Wigtown Ploughman: Part of His Life is published under the author's real name, John McNeillie. See also Timeline of Scottish history 1939 in Northern Ireland References Category:Years of the 20th century in Scotland Scotland Category:1930s in Scotland Scotland