Events from the year 1994 in Scotland. Incumbents Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Ian Lang Law officers Lord Advocate – Lord Rodger of Earlsferry Solicitor General for Scotland – Thomas Dawson Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Hope Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Ross Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Philip Events March – Strathclyde water referendum indicates overwhelming opposition to the privatisation of water. 5 May – elections are held for Scotland's Regional Councils. 19 May – Robert Black, jailed for life four years ago for abducting a seven-year-old girl in the Scottish Borders, is found guilty of murdering three girls in the 1980s and sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended minimum term of 35 years. Black later dies in HMP Maghaberry in Northern Ireland of a heart attack in January 2016. 25 April – Dundee Institute of Technology elevated to the status of Abertay University. 2 June – Chinook crash on Mull of Kintyre: An RAF Chinook helicopter carrying more than twenty leading intelligence experts crashes on the Mull of Kintyre, killing everyone on board. 9 June – European elections result in Labour winning six of Scotland's eight MEPs, with the SNP winning the other two. 25 June – The Greenock rail accident, caused by vandals placing concrete blocks on the rails, kills two people. 30 June – Monklands East by-election results in the Labour Party retaining the seat despite a swing of 19.2% to the SNP. 3 November – The Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, that will reorganise local government by creating 32 unitary authorities, receives royal assent. Dounreay nuclear power plant comes offline. Highland Theological Institute established in Dingwall. Births 1 January – Craig Murray, footballer 14 January – Ross Murdoch, swimmer 8 March – Claire Emslie, footballer 11 March - Andrew Robertson, footballer 12 March – Katie Archibald, cyclist 23 March – Jack Hamilton, goalkeeper 10 April – Siobhan Hunter, footballer 29 April – Stephen Milne, swimmer 24 May – Emily Nicholl, netball player 11 July – Jake Wightman, middle-distance runner 30 August – Jo Muir, modern pentathlete 12 September – Mhairi Black, SNP MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South Deaths 3 January – Marion Ross, physicist (born 1903) 12 May – John Smith, leader of the Labour Party (UK) (born 1938) 6 June – Mark