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Alan Wells won Olympic

Allan Wipper Wells MBE (born 3 May 1952) is a Scottish former track and field sprinter who became the 100 metres Olympic champion at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band officially disbands on their 50th anniversary, 1978

Muirhead and Sons Pipe Band, founded in 1928, was a pipe band based in Grangemouth, Scotland. The band was named after, and affiliated with, the company Muirhead & Sons, a sawmill based in Grangemouth and founded by George A. Muirhead in the 1880s

Poet and Nationalist C M Grieve (Hugh MacDiarmid) died.

Peru defeated Scotland, 3-1 in the football World Cup in Argentina.

Start of firemens strike which lasted for two months; cover was provided by the army with their out of date green goddess fire engines.

The nationwide firefighters’ strike occurred between 1977 and early 1978, months prior to the Winter of Discontent.