has nearly 100 cinemas 1931: The Glasgow population peaks at 1,088,000 thus becoming Britain's 2nd biggest city; the Dental Hospital in Sauchiehall Street is built 1934: Unemployed "Hunger marchers" shunned by Ramsay MacDonald; RMS Queen Mary launched 1935: Glasgow's subway becomes electric 1936: Overcrowding exists in 29% of Glasgow's houses 1937: Citywide automatic telephone dialling becomes available 1938: Glasgow hosts Empire Exhibition, Scotland 1938 at Bellahouston Park 1939: World War II: Glasgow naval base opens 1940: Bomb hits Merkland Street subway station, closes underground for four months 1941: Bombing raids on Clydebank, 500 killed 1944: Glasgow trams carry about 14 million passengers 1946: Glasgow naval base closes 1949: Trolleybuses in Glasgow introduced, condemned by pedestrians as the "whispering death" 1950: Eye infirmary demolished 1951: Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) is formed by merger 1952-1955: Union Bank of Scotland absorbed by Bank of Scotland 1955: Duke Street prison closed 1958: William Burrell dies, bequeaths Burrell Collection; Lanarkshire County Council moves its headquarters from Ingram Street to Hamilton 1960: Glasgow electric Blue Train system starts; Dame Jean Roberts is elected Glasgow's first female Lord Provost 1962: Last route of the Glasgow Corporation Tramways closes 1964: University of Strathclyde established; Beeching closes low-level (Argyle) line 1966: Buchanan Street railway station and St Enoch railway station close 1967: Celtic F.C. first British winners of European Cup; QE2 launched; trolley-buses withdrawn 1969: Last daily steamers from Bridge Wharf 1970: M8 motorway and Kingston Bridge open 1971: 66 Rangers F.C. fans die in the second Ibrox disaster; Government refuse to save Upper Clyde Shipbuilders 1972: Rangers F.C. win 1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final. 1975: British Army tackle rubbish caused by dustmans strike; Glasgow becomes the home of Strathclyde Region's headquarters; the city sees the start of Britain's first mass-circulation daily newspaper workers' cooperative when the Scottish Daily News opens in Albion Street in May, as well as the country's first newspaper work-in when it folds after six months 1977: Glasgow Subway closes for extensive modernisation (reopening in 1980) 1978: The Rev Geoff Shaw, first Convener of Strathclyde Regional Council (and former leader of Glasgow Corporation), dies in office aged 52 1979-1980: Low level Argyle Line re-opens 1982: Roy Jenkins wins Hillhead by-election for the newly formed Social Democratic Party 1983: Burrell Collection opens; launch of the Glasgow's miles better campaign 1985: Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre opens; Glasgow population is 734,000 1988: