1973 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1973 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 2.1 Unknown dates 3 Births 4 Deaths 4.1 January - April 4.2 May - August 4.3 September - December 5 References

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - HM Queen Elizabeth II
• Prime Minister - Edward Heath, Conservative Party

[edit] Events

• 1 January - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later became the European Union.
• 25 January - English actor Derren Nesbitt is convicted of assaulting his wife Anne Aubrey.
• 8 March - IRA bombs explode in Whitehall and the Old Bailey in England.
• 9 March - Northern Ireland vote overwhelmingly to remain within the UK. Voter turnout is reportedly at 59%, although less than 1% of Catholics vote.
• 17 March - Queen Elizabeth II opens the modern London Bridge.
• 24 March - Pink Floyd release The Dark Side of the Moon.
• 5 May - Sunderland AFC defeats Leeds United AFC in the FA Cup final.
• 23 June - A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a 6-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 fire deaths caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
• 10 July - The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
• 31 July - Militant protesters of Ian Paisley disrupt the first sitting of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
• 23 September - The BBC introduces Ceefax, which with ITV's ORACLE first broadcast in 1974, are the world's first teletext systems. ^[1]
• 8 October - London Broadcasting Company, Britain's first legal commercial Independent Local Radio station, begin broadcasting.
• 20 October - The Dalai Lama makes his first visit to the UK.
• 14 November - In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries a commoner, Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey (they divorce in 1992).
• 9 December - The Sunningdale Agreement is signed in Sunningdale, Berkshire by Prime Minister Edward Heath, Irish premier Liam Cosgrave, and representatives of the Ulster Unionist Party, the Social Democratic and Labour Party and the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.
• 31 December - Due to coal shortages caused by industrial action, the electricity consumption reduction measure - the Three-Day Week comes into force.

[edit] Unknown dates

• The National House Building Council is formed.
• Brian David Josephson shares the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects". ^[2]
• Geoffrey Wilkinson wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Ernst Otto Fischer "for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds". ^[3]

[edit] Births

• January 18 - Crispian Mills, British musician (The Jeevas and Kula Shaker)
• February 8 - Sonia Deol, Presenter Network East, BBC Asian Network & programme narrator
• 26 April - Chris Perry, English footballer
• May 10 - Dario Franchitti, Scottish race car driver
• May 24 - Dermot O'Leary, British TV Star
• May 30 - Leigh Francis, British comedian
• June 9 - Iain Lee, British comedian and radio and television presenter
• July 3 - Emma Cunniffe, British actress
• July 23 - Fran Healy, British singer (Travis)
• July 26 - Kate Beckinsale, English actress
• August 12 - Richard Reid, English terrorist
• September 12 - Darren Campbell, British athlete
• October 21 - Beverly Turner, British TV and radio presenter
• November 29 - Ryan Giggs, Welsh footballer
• December 17 - Paula Radcliffe, British athlete

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January - April

• January 19 - Max Adrian, Northern Irish actor (b. 1903)
• 15 January - Neil M. Gunn, Scottish novelist, critic, and dramatist(b. 1891)
• 28 January - Francis Romney, English cricketer (b. 1873)
• 16 February - Harold Gibbons, English cricketer (b. 1904)
• 12 March - David Lack, British ornithologist and biologist (b. 1910)
• March 26 - Noel Coward, English composer and playwright (b. 1899)
• 30 March - Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, British politician and Conservative peer (b. 1903)

[edit] May - August

• 11 May - Russell Everitt, English cricketer (b. 1881)
• 14 May - A. C. Ewing, British philosopher (b. 1899)
• 6 June - Jimmy Clitheroe, aka 'The Clitheroe Kid', English comedian (b. 1921)
• 18 June - Roger Delgado, English actor (Doctor Who) (b. 1918)
• 1 July - Charles Ernest Garforth, English soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1891)
• July 8 - Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 18 July - John Brown Hamilton, Scottish soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1896)
• July 29 - Roger Williamson, British race car driver (b. 1948)
• 29 July - Cecil Griffiths, British athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x400 m relay at the 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1901)
• 16 August - A. K. Chesterton, British politician and journalist (b. 1896)
• 17 August - George Benson, British Labour Party politician (b. 1889)
• 18 August - Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, British Ulster Unionist politician (b. 1888)
• 29 August - Stringer Davis, English actor (b. 1896)

[edit] September - December

• September 2 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (b. 1892)
• 6 September - William Henry Harris, English organist and composer (b. 1883)
• 11 September - E. E. Evans-Pritchard, British anthropologist (b. 1902)
• 21 September - C. H. Dodd, Welsh scholar and theologian (b. 1884)
• 24 September - Barbara Freyberg, Baroness Freyberg, British peeress
• 25 September - George Porter, British Labour Party politician (b. 1884)
• September 29 - W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907)
• 4 October - Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch, British politician and Conservative peer (b. 1894)
• 9 October - Hilda Plowright, English actress (b. 1890)
• 10 November - Gerald Cock, British broadcasting executive (b. 1887)
• 5 December - Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1892)
• 9 December - Anthony Gilbert (pen name of Lucy Beatrice Malleson), British crime-fiction writer (b. 1899)

[edit] References