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** and Scottish
** A Scottish Borders tradition with a repertoire heavy in hornpipes and with heavy use of double stops.
** A Highland tradition, highly influenced by the ornamentation and mixolydian scale of the Great Highland Bagpipe, as well as smoother bowing than other Scottish fiddle styles and a swinging of the 6 / 8 jig rhythm.
** The Forth River, named after the Scottish River Forth ( see above.
** Pipes and drums or pipe bands, composed of musicians who play the Scottish and Irish bagpipes
** Scottish Reformation, in 1560, part of the wider Protestant Reformation
** Graeme Dott, Scottish snooker player
** Calvin Harris, Scottish singer-songwriter
** Darren Fletcher, Scottish football player
** Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer ( b. 1925 )
** George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems ( b. 1545 )
** William Barclay, Scottish jurist ( b. 1546 )
** M / V Braer, a Liberian oil tanker, runs aground off the Scottish island of Mainland, causing a massive oil spill.
** James Donald, Scottish actor ( b. 1917 )
** Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1907 )
** Kenny Dalglish, Scottish footballer and football manager
** Duncan Bannatyne, Scottish entrepreneur
** Martin Buchan, Scottish footballer
** Lonnie Donegan, Scottish musician ( d. 2002 )
** Alexander Gibson, British conductor and founder of the Scottish Opera
** James Stirling, Scottish architect ( d. 1992 )
** Irvin Duguid, Scottish rock keyboard player ( Stiltskin )
** Walter Smith, Scottish football manager
** Andrew Brown, Scottish soccer coach ( b. 1870 )
** Henry Robertson Bowers, Scottish naval officer ( b. 1883 )
** Bill Shankly, Scottish football manager ( d. 1981 )

** and Labour
** The Labour Party wins the parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom, ending 13 years of Conservative Party rule.
** Harold Wilson becomes British Prime Minister after leading the Labour Party to a narrow election win over the Tory government of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, which had been in power for 13 years and had four different leaders during that time.
** Norwegian parliamentary election, 1993: The Labour Party wins a plurality of the seats, and Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland retains office.
** In Sweden, Olof Palme is elected Labour Party leader, replacing Tage Erlander as prime minister on October 14.
** Alfred Sant, Leader of Malta Labour Party ( 1992 –) and Prime Minister of Malta ( 1996 – 1998 )
** Prague Party Conference: Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Party break away from the rest of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.
** International Labour Organization ( ILO ) In 1945, the organisation's new constitution came into effective.
** British Minister of Labour Ernest Bevin calls for women to fill vital jobs.
** James Callaghan announces his resignation as Leader of the British Labour Party.
** The British Labour Party is formed and Ramsay MacDonald is appointed as its first secretary.
** The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) and the Canadian Labour Congress.
** Labour riots in Poznań, Poland, are crushed with heavy loss of life.
** The Labour Party under Harold Wilson wins the British General Election, gaining a 96-seat majority which is a great improvement upon the five-seat majority gained at the election 17 months ago.
** October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
** Dick Taverne, having resigned from the Parliament of the United Kingdom on leaving the Labour Party, is re-elected as a ' Democratic Labour ' candidate.
** In Britain, Jim Callaghan's minority Labour government loses a motion of confidence by 1 vote, forcing a general election which is to be held on 3 May.
** In the Dutch general election, the Christian Democratic Appeal, led by Ruud Lubbers wins 54 seats, and is ultimately able to form a government on November 7 after entering into coalition with the Labour Party.
** Gro Harlem Brundtland, leader of the Labour Party, resigns as Prime Minister of Norway.
** Aneurin Bevan resigns from the British Labour Party's " shadow cabinet ".
** Helen Clark, leader of the New Zealand Labour Party, is re-elected in a landslide victory.
** The Labour Party passed the Sex Discrimination ( Election Candidates ) Act 2002, allowing them to use all-women shortlists to select more women as election candidates.
** Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 4th Baron Acton, his great-grandson, Labour peer and life peer
** Higher School of Prevention of Labour Accidents

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