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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1973 to
Wales and
its people .
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Awards
National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in
Ruthin )
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair -
Alan Llwyd
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown -
Alan Llwyd
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal -
Emyr Roberts
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Drama Medal -
Urien Wiliam
New books
English language
Welsh language
New drama
Music
Visual arts
Film
Welsh-language films
English-language films
Broadcasting
The Labour Party publishes a study arguing that independent television arrangements in the UK are causing non Welsh-speaking residents to lose their Welsh identity.
[21]
Welsh-language television
Youth music programme Disc a Dawn ends its six-year run, to be replaced the following year by Gwerin 74 , a folk music show.
[22]
English-language television
Sport
Births
20 January -
Stephen Crabb , politician (born in Scotland)
[29]
15 February -
Adrian Lewis Morgan , actor
27 February -
Mark Taylor , rugby union player and manager
24 April -
Gabby Logan , television presenter
3 May -
Jamie Baulch , athlete (born in Nottingham)
[30]
10 May -
Ryan Nicholls , footballer
29 May -
Lee Jones , footballer
4 July -
Bradley Dredge , golfer
[31]
6 August -
Donna Lewis , singer
22 August -
Lee Dainton , skateboarder
17 September –
Jason Mohammad , radio and television sports presenter
6 October -
Ioan Gruffudd , actor
[32]
9 October -
Sian Evans , singer
3 November -
Mark Evans , comedy scriptwriter
29 November -
Ryan Giggs , footballer
[33]
25 December -
Ewen MacIntosh , comic actor (died
2024 )
[34]
Deaths
8 January - Sir
David Hughes Parry , professor of law and university administrator, 80
[35]
11 January -
Vernon Morris , cricketer, 78
[36]
30 January -
Trystan Edwards , architectural critic, town planner and amateur cartographer, 88
[37]
12 March -
Willie Llewellyn , Wales international rugby player, 94
19 March - Sir
Clement Price Thomas , surgeon, 79
[38]
23 May -
Kenneth Allott , poet and critic
[39]
29 July -
Guy Morgan , rugby player, 65
9 August -
Donald Peers , singer, 66
[40]
11 August
17 August -
Elena Puw Morgan , novelist, 73
[41]
21 September -
C. H. Dodd , theologian, 89
[42]
8 October -
Evan Tom Davies , mathematician, 69
[43]
3 November -
Melville Richards , academic, 63
[44]
4 November -
Billy Williams , dual-code international rugby player, 67
16 November -
Dai Hiddlestone , Wales international rugby player, 83
24 November - Brigadier
Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes , soldier and medical administrator, 81
[45]
28 November -
Anne Griffith-Jones , educationist, 83 (in Malaysia)
[46]
date unknown -
Morris Meredith Williams , painter and illustrator
[47]
See also
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^ Meic Stephens (April 1986).
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ISBN
978-0-19-211586-7 .
^ Arthur Ivor Marsh (1 December 1979).
Concise encyclopedia of industrial relations: with bibliography . Gower Press. p. 336.
ISBN
978-0-566-02095-7 .
^
University of Wales Press: The Wales TUC, 1974-2004
^
"Y Dinesydd" . Y Dinesydd official website . Retrieved 20 February 2019 .
^ Stephen Mitchell, John O'Sullivan (11 May 1973). "Labour sweep to power in S. Wales".
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^
"Llyn Brianne Dam" . Engineering Timelines . Retrieved 20 February 2019 .
^ Nicole Martin (7 June 2002).
"Dead man named as triple murderer after DNA tests" . The Telegraph . Retrieved 31 January 2019 .
^
BBC News Wales
^
"The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973" . NobelPrize.org . Retrieved 20 February 2019 .
^
"Theatr Ardudwy, Harlech (407907)" . Coflein .
RCAHMW . 2008-07-11. Retrieved 2021-09-22 .
^ Meic Stephens (1998).
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ISBN
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^ Aleksander Bednarski; Maciej Czerniakowski; Paweł Tomasz Czerniak (5 February 2015).
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ISBN
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^ Jasmine Donahaye (15 February 2012).
Whose People?: Wales, Israel, Palestine . University of Wales Press. p. 177.
ISBN
978-1-78316-497-4 .
^ Russell Davies (15 June 2015).
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ISBN
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ISBN
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^
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^ Howard, Philip (2 November 1973). "Resolute and defiant as ever, Churchill's statue is revealed".
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^ Howard Maxford (8 November 2019).
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ISBN
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^ Medhurst, Jamie (1 June 2010).
A History of Independent Television in Wales . University of Wales Press. p. 172.
ISBN
978-0-7083-2308-3 .
^
"BBC Year Book 1975" (PDF) . BBC. p. 117. Retrieved 20 February 2019 .
^ Mark Connelly (10 January 2014).
The IRA on Film and Television: A History . McFarland. p. 48.
ISBN
978-0-7864-8961-9 .
^ Bill Pertwee (3 November 2009).
Dad's Army: The Making of a TV Legend . Bloomsbury USA. p. 137.
ISBN
978-1-84486-105-7 .
^
"Archive" (PDF) . Welsh Cycling . Retrieved 21 June 2024 .
^
Chronicle of the Horse . Chronicle of the Horse, Incorporated. April 1973. p. 10.
^
"Profile: Ray Reardon" .
Eurosport . 2 March 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2019 .
^
"BBC Wales Sport Personality winners" . BBC Sport . Retrieved 29 July 2021 .
^ Valerie Passmore (2005).
Dod's Parliamentary Companion: Guide to the General Election, 2005 . Dod's Parliamentary Companion Limited. p. 97.
ISBN
978-0-905702-57-5 .
^
"Jamie Baulch - profile" . World Athletics . Retrieved 18 December 2019 .
^
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^
"Ioan Gruffudd biography" . BBC Arts . Retrieved 5 April 2020 .
^ Whyatt, Chris (24 May 2011).
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^
"Ewen MacIntosh, Comedian on British Sitcom 'The Office', Dies at 50" . New York Times . 21 February 2024. Retrieved 21 February 2024 .
^
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^
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^ Alun Roberts.
"Price Thomas, Clement (1893-1973), pioneering surgeon" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 December 2019 .
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"Dodd, Charles Harold (1884-1973), biblical scholar" .
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^
"Evan Tom Davies" . www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk . School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland. Retrieved 28 June 2015 .
^ Dr Brynley Francis Roberts.
"Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig" (in Welsh). Retrieved 3 February 2016 .
^
"Gen. Hugh Hughes, freed Belsen Camp" . New York Times . 30 November 1973. Retrieved 5 April 2020 .
^ W. Ambrose Bebb (15 July 2009).
A Welsh Hundred: Glimpses of Life in Wales Drawn from a Pair of Family Diaries for 1841 and 1940 . AuthorHouse. p. 175.
ISBN
978-1-4678-6128-1 .
^ Duncan Macmillan (2001). Scottish Art in the 20th Century, 1890-2001 . Mainstream Pub. p. 47.
ISBN
9781840184570 .