1973 in the United Kingdom

1973 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1973 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

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

Events

* 1 January - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the "European Economic Community". [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/1/newsid_2459000/2459167.stm|title="1973: Britain joins the EEC", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-11]
* 11 January - Open University awards its first degrees. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/11/newsid_2519000/2519681.stm|title="1973: First Open University degrees awarded", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-11]
* 19 January - the super tug "Statesman" is sent to protect British fishing vessels from Icelandic ships in the Cod War. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/19/newsid_2530000/2530223.stm|title="1973: Super tug to defend fishing fleet", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-11]
* 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 London.
* 9 March - Northern Ireland vote overwhelmingly to remain within the UK. Voter turnout is reportedly at 59%, although less than 1% of Catholics vote. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/9/newsid_2516000/2516477.stm|title="1973: Northern Ireland votes for union", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-11]
* 10 March - the governor of Bermuda Richard Sharples and his aide-de-camp assassinated. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/10/newsid_2798000/2798039.stm|title="1973: British officials shot dead in Bermuda", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-11]
* 17 March - Queen Elizabeth II opens the modern London Bridge.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 24 March - Pink Floyd release "The Dark Side of the Moon".
* 26 March - Women are admitted into the London Stock Exchange for the first time. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/26/newsid_2531000/2531145.stm|title="1973: Stock Exchange admits women", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-11]
* April - British Leyland launches its new Austin Allegro range of small family saloons, to replace the ageing 1100 and 1300 ranges that were sold under the Austin, Morris, Riley, Wolseley, MG and Vanden Plas brands from the range's 1962 launch.
* 1 April - VAT comes into effect.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 434-435|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 1 May - 1.6 million workers go on strike over government pay restraints. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/1/newsid_2480000/2480141.stm|title="1973: Thousands strike over pay and prices", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-11]
* 5 May - Sunderland achieve a shock 1-0 win over Leeds United in the FA Cup final at Wembley. Ian Porterfield scores the only goal of the game. It is the first time that an FA Cup winning team has not contained a single player to be capped at full international level.
* 20 May - the Royal Navy sens three frigates to protect British fishing vessels from Icelandic ships in the Cod War dispute. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/20/newsid_2510000/2510837.stm|title="1973: Royal Navy moves to protect trawlers", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-11]
* 23 June - A fire at a house in Hull 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. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/9/newsid_2498000/2498835.stm|title="1973: Bahamas' sun sets on British Empire", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-11]
* 30 July - £20 million compensation is paid to victims of Thalidomide following an 11-year court case. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/30/newsid_4582000/4582119.stm|title="1973: Final deal for thalidomide victims", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-11]
* 31 July - Militant protesters of Ian Paisley disrupt the first sitting of the Northern Ireland Assembly. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/31/newsid_2491000/2491885.stm|title="1973: Chaotic meeting of Belfast Assembly", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-11]
* 21 August - the coroner in the Bloody Sunday inquest accuses the British army of "sheer unadulterated murder" after the jury returns an open verdict. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/21/newsid_2500000/2500321.stm|title="1973: 'Bloody Sunday' inquest accuses Army", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-11]
* 8 September - the IRA detonates bombs in Manchester and Victoria Station in London.cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/10/newsid_2504000/2504619.stm|title="1973: Bomb blasts rock central London", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-11]
* 10 September
** two IRA bombs at King's Cross Station and Euston Station in London injure 13 people.
** the fashion store Biba re-opens in Kensington High Street. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/10/newsid_3914000/3914415.stm|title="1973: Big Biba opens its doors", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-11]
* 12 September - further IRA bombs in Oxford Street and Sloane Square.
* 23 September - The BBC introduces Ceefax, which with ITV's ORACLE first broadcast in 1974, are the world's first teletext systems. [cite book |title= The Hutchinson Factfinder |publisher= Helicon |year= 1999 |isbn= 1-85986-000-1 ]
* 8 October - London Broadcasting Company, Britain's first legal commercial Independent Local Radio station, begins broadcasting. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/8/newsid_2530000/2530721.stm|title="1973: Commercial radio joins UK airwaves", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-11]
* 20 October - The Dalai Lama makes his first visit to the UK. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/20/newsid_2489000/2489855.stm|title="1973: Dalai Lama makes first UK visit", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-11]
* 8 November - The Second Cod War between Britain and Iceland ends.
* 14 November
** Eight members of the Provisional IRA convicted of the March bombings in London. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/14/newsid_4724000/4724181.stm|title="1973: IRA gang convicted of London bombings", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-11]
** Princess Anne marries commoner Captain Mark Phillips at Westminster Abbey. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/14/newsid_2519000/2519003.stm|title="1973: Crowds cheer marriage of Princess Anne", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-11]
* 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. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/9/newsid_2536000/2536767.stm|title="1973: Sunningdale Agreement signed", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-11]
* 10 December
** 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". [cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1973/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973|accessdate=2008-02-11]
** 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". [cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1973/|title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1973|accessdate=2008-02-11]
* 31 December - Due to coal shortages caused by industrial action, the electricity consumption reduction measure - the Three-Day Week comes into force.

Undated

* The National House Building Council is formed.

Publications

* Martin Amis's novel "The Rachel Papers".
* Agatha Christie's novel "Postern of Fate".
* James Gordon Farrell's novel "The Siege of Krishnapur".
* Graham Greene's novel "The Honorary Consul".
* Iris Murdoch's novel "The Black Prince".

Births

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

Deaths

January - April

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

May - August

* 11 May - Russell Everitt, English cricketer (born 1881)
* 14 May - A. C. Ewing, British philosopher (born 1899)
* 6 June - Jimmy Clitheroe, "aka" 'The Clitheroe Kid', English comedian (born 1921)
* 18 June - Roger Delgado, English actor ("Doctor Who") (born 1918)
* 1 July - Charles Ernest Garforth, English soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1891)
* July 8 - Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (born 1877)
* 18 July - John Brown Hamilton, Scottish soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1896)
* 29 July
** Roger Williamson, British race car driver (born 1948)
** Cecil Griffiths, British athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x400 m relay at the 1920 Summer Olympics (born 1901)
* 6 August - James Beck, actor (born 1929)
* 16 August - A. K. Chesterton, British politician and journalist (born 1896)
* 17 August - George Benson, British Labour Party politician (born 1889)
* 18 August - Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, British Ulster Unionist politician (born 1888)
* 29 August - Stringer Davis, English actor (born 1896)

eptember - December

* 2 September - J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (born 1892)
* 6 September - William Henry Harris, English organist and composer (born 1883)
* 11 September - E. E. Evans-Pritchard, British anthropologist (born 1902)
* 21 September - C. H. Dodd, Welsh scholar and theologian (born 1884)
* 24 September - Barbara Freyberg, Baroness Freyberg, British peeress
* 25 September - George Porter, British Labour Party politician (born 1884)
* September 29 - W. H. Auden, English poet (born 1907)
* 4 October - Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch, British politician and Conservative peer (born 1894)
* 9 October - Hilda Plowright, English actress (born 1890)
* 10 November - Gerald Cock, British broadcasting executive (born 1887)
* 5 December - Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, Scottish inventor (born 1892)
* 9 December - Anthony Gilbert (pen name of Lucy Beatrice Malleson), British crime-fiction writer (born 1899)
* 13 December - Henry Green, novelist (born 1905)

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