Английская Википедия:1902 in Scotland
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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Year in Scotland Events from the year 1902 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Blair Balfour
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh
Events
- 5 April – The original Ibrox disaster: a stand at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow collapses during an England versus Scotland football match.[1] 25 people die and 517 are injured.
- 29 July – St Lawrence's Church opens.
- 15 October – The North British Hotel in Edinburgh opens its doors for the first time.[2]
- 2 November – The first Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, organised and led by naturalist William Speirs Bruce, sets out from Troon in the Scotia.
- 10 November – Percival Spencer and the Rev. J. M. Bacon make the first-ever hot air balloon flight from the Isle of Man, landing in Dumfriesshire.[3]
- Pulteneytown merged into the burgh of Wick.
Births
- 16 January (in China) – Eric Liddell, athlete, international rugby union player and missionary (died 1945 in a Japanese-run internment camp in China)
- 26 March – Marion Cameron Gray, mathematician (died 1979)[4]
- 27 March – Kenneth Macpherson, cinematographer (died 1971 in Tuscany)
- 24 July – Renée Houston, née Katherina Houston Gribbin, comedy actress (died 1980)
- 19 August – Fyfe Robertson, television presenter (died 1987)
- 28 October – Jenny Gilbertson, née Brown, documentary filmmaker (died 1990)
Deaths
- 20 February – David MacGibbon, architect (born 1831)
- 29 June – John Stuart McCaig of Muckairn and Soroba, creator of McCaig's Tower, Oban (born 1823)
- 16 July – Henry Dunning Macleod, economist (born 1821)
- 28 August – George Douglas Brown, novelist (born 1869)
- 29 September – William McGonagall, weaver, doggerel poet and tragedian (born 1825)
The arts
- First modern play in Scottish Gaelic staged, in Edinburgh.[5]
- The Classical Association of Scotland founded
See also
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