1973 in the United Kingdom

1973 in the United Kingdom
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Constituent countries of the United Kingdom
England | Northern Ireland | Scotland | Wales
Popular culture

Events from the year 1973 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

  • 6 June – St Mary's Church, Putney in London is gutted by fire, later revealed to be arson.
  • 23 June – A fire at a house in Hull which kills a six-year-old boy is initially thought to be an accident but later emerged as the first of 26 fire deaths caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale.

July

August

  • 8 August – Gordon Banks, the Stoke City and England goalkeeper, announces his retirement from football having lost the sight in one eye in a car crash in October last year.
  • 20 August – Football League president Len Shipman calls for the government to bring back the birch as a tactic of dealing with the growing problem of football hooliganism.
  • 21 August – The coroner in the Bloody Sunday inquest accuses the British army of "sheer unadulterated murder" after the jury returns an open verdict.

September

October

  • 8 October
    • London Broadcasting Company, the United Kingdom's first legal commercial Independent Local Radio station, begins broadcasting.
    • Prime Minister Edward Heath announces government proposals for its counter-inflationary Price and Pay Code Stage Three (continuing to July 1974), including limiting pay rises to 7%, restricting price rises, and paying a £10 Christmas bonus to pensioners – a move which would cost around £80,000,000 funded by a 9p rise in National Insurance contributions.
  • 16 October
  • 20 October – The Dalai Lama makes his first visit to the UK.
  • 26 October – Firefighters in Glasgow stage a one-day strike as part of a pay dispute; troops are drafted in to cover the fire stations.
  • 31 October – The sixth series of BBC television sitcom Dad's Army opens with the episode "The Deadly Attachment" containing the "Don't tell him, Pike!" exchange which will become rated as one of the top three greatest comedy moments of British television.

November

December

Undated

Publications

Births

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Undated

Deaths

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

See also


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