1950 in Scotland

Events from the year 1950 in Scotland.

Incumbents

14 February – First shipment of coal from Argyll Colliery in the reopened Machrihanish Coalfield to Belfast.
21 February – Clydebank-built Cunard liner arrives at the scrapyard in Faslane at the end of a 36-year career.
August – first official Edinburgh Military Tattoo staged at Edinburgh Castle as part of the Edinburgh Festival.
22 August – 54-year-old William "Ned" Barnie becomes the first Scot to swim the English Channel, going on to complete 3 crossings.
8 September – 116 miners trapped underground in a landslide at Knockshinnoch Castle colliery at New Cumnock in Ayrshire.
9 September – first miners are rescued from Knockshinnoch Castle colliery.
11 September – rescue operation from Knockshinnoch Castle colliery is completed, with all 116 miners saved.
18 October – the North of [Scotland Hydro-Electric Board]'s Loch Sloy Hydro-Electric Scheme is inaugurated.
25 December – the Stone of Scone, the traditional coronation stone of Scottish monarchs, English monarchs and more recently British monarchs, is removed from London's Westminster Abbey by a group of four Scottish students led by Ian Hamilton, a future advocate.
St. Margaret's Hospice in Clydebank, the first modern hospice in Scotland, is begun by the Sisters of Charity.