1958 in Scotland explained

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

Book: Vaughan, Adrian. Obstruction Danger: significant British railway accidents, 1890-1986. Wellingborough. Patrick Stephens Ltd. 1989. 159–64.
Web site: Ian Donald's paper in The Lancet in 1958. 2008-01-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20080112010620/http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/lancet.html. 2008-01-12. live.
Web site: AC Cars Railbus Scottish Arrival. Mackay. Stuart. www.railcar.co.uk. en. 2017-05-20.
Web site: Notable Dates in History. The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. 2014-07-23. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140523225830/http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm. 2014-05-23.
Web site: Events in Telecommunications History – 1958. BT Archives. 2014-07-23. 7 October 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131007024036/http://www.btplc.com/Thegroup/BTsHistory/1912to1968/1958.htm. dead.
Book: Houston. Rab. Houston. Robert Allan. Scotland: a very short introduction. Oxford University Press. 2008. Very short introductions. 197. 172. 978-0-19-923079-2. 2012-02-29.
Web site: Derek Bolton White . ESPN scrum . 18 January 2022.