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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year
1963
to
Wales
and
its people
.
Incumbents
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Events
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February
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March
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June
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August
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September
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- 16 September
? The
Western Mail
launches a fund-raising campaign to replace a stained glass window to replace the one shattered in the bombing of a church in
Birmingham, Alabama
, United States, by the Ku Klux Klan on the previous day; the £500 target is reached within days.
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Date unknown
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Arts and literature
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Awards
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New books
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Music
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Film
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Broadcasting
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Welsh-language television
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English-language television
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Sport
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Births
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- 22 January
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Huw Irranca-Davies
, politician
[12]
- 27 April
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Russell T Davies
, television screenwriter
[13]
- 14 May
?
Andrew Lewis
, composer
- 8 June
?
Louise Jones
, cyclist
- 15 June
?
Nigel Walker
, athlete and rugby player
- 28 June
?
Peter Baynham
, comedian
- 10 July
?
Ian Lougher
, motorcycle racer
- August ?
Rebecca Evans
, operatic soprano
- 15 August
(in
Wolverhampton
)
?
Simon Hart
, politician, Secretary of State for Wales
- 12 September
?
Julie Roberts (artist)
, painter
[14]
- 19 October
?
Phil Davies
, rugby union player
- 1 November
?
Mark Hughes
, footballer and football manager
- 28 November
?
Charles Dale
, television actor
- 7 December
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Mark Bowen
, footballer
- 16 December
?
Hugh Morris
, cricketer
- 19 December
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Paul Rhys
, actor
- 28 December
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Simon Thomas
, politician
Deaths
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- 1 January
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David Mort
, Labour MP for
Swansea East
, 74
- 11 January
?
Philippa Powys
, novelist, 76
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- 13 March
?
Margaret Davies
, philanthropist, 78
[16]
- 15 January
?
Morgan Phillips
, politician, 60
[17]
- 15 March
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William Cove
, politician, 74
- 28 March
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Alec Templeton
, composer, pianist and satirist, 52
[18]
- 15 April
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Edward V. Robertson
, US senator, 81
- 25 May
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William Lewis
, chemist
- 17 June
?
John Cowper Powys
, novelist, 90
[19]
- 6 July
?
John Osborn Williams
, politician in Newfoundland, 77
- 29 July
?
Frank Moody
, British boxing champion, 62
[20]
- 11 September
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William Richard Williams
, civil servant and politician, 68
- 26 September
- 1 October
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Tal Harris
, Wales international rugby player, 61
- 11 October
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Emlyn Garner Evans
, lawyer and politician, 53
[22]
- 26 October
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Horace Evans
, royal physician, 60
[23]
- 16 December
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Llewellyn Evans
, Olympic hockey player, 84
- 20 December
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Reg Skrimshire
, Wales and British Lions rugby union player, 85
- 26 December
?
Gwynn Parry Jones
, singer, 72
- 30 December
?
Rees Williams
, footballer, 63
See also
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Notes
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"Tryweryn: 50 years since bombing of reservoir dam"
.
BBC
. 2013-02-10
. Retrieved
2013-02-12
.
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"Amazing pictures of Wales' Big Freeze of 1963"
.
WalesOnline
. 11 December 2013
. Retrieved
30 June
2019
.
- ^
"The winter when Wales stood still"
.
ITV News
. 19 December 2012
. Retrieved
30 June
2019
.
- ^
"Great Western Railway Caerphilly Locomotive Works"
.
Rail UK
. Archived from
the original
on 2014-04-15
. Retrieved
2014-04-14
.
- ^
"Mandy Rice-Davies Obituary"
. The Telegraph
. Retrieved
29 December
2017
.
- ^
"Mandy Rice-Davies Obituary"
.
The Guardian
. Retrieved
29 December
2017
.
- ^
"The Wales window, Birmingham, Alabama"
. National Library of Wales
. Retrieved
30 June
2019
.
- ^
"BBC ? Dunraven Castle ? home of legends"
.
BBC News
. 2009-03-19
. Retrieved
2011-10-12
.
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The Economist
. Economist Newspaper. 1983. p. 54.
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Chapman, James (2006).
Inside the Tardis: The Worlds of Doctor Who
. I.B.Tauris. p. 25.
ISBN
1-84511-162-1
.
- ^
"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.
ISBN
978-0-905702-57-5
.
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Adam Pearson (18 August 2014).
101 Interesting Facts on Doctor Who: Learn About the Science-Fiction TV Show
. Andrews UK Limited. p. 17.
ISBN
978-1-910295-80-9
.
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Grant, Catherine M. (28 September 2001).
"Roberts, Julie"
.
Grove Art Online
. Retrieved
21 February
2021
.
(subscription or
UK public library membership
required)
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John Cowper Powys; Philippa Powys (1996).
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Philippa Powys
. C. Woolf. p. 20.
ISBN
978-0-900821-51-6
.
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D. Ben Rees (2002).
Vehicles of Grace and Hope: Welsh Missionaries in India, 1800-1970
. William Carey Library. p. 24.
ISBN
978-0-87808-505-7
.
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Saville, John
. "Phillips, Morgan Walter".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi
:
10.1093/ref:odnb/35513
.
(Subscription or
UK public library membership
required.)
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"Alec Templeton, Blind Pianist, Is Dead in Connecticut at 52; He Won Success as Serious Artist and as Innovator-- Skilled as Improviser Self-Pity Excluded Moves to London A Skilled Improviser"
.
New York Times
. 29 March 1963
. Retrieved
18 November
2021
.
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Herbert Williams (1997).
John Cowper Powys
. Seren. p. 156.
ISBN
978-1-85411-196-8
.
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Encyclopaedia of Boxing
. R. Hale. 1979. p. 165.
ISBN
978-0-7091-7745-6
.
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Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died
. A. & C. Black. 1981. p. 297.
ISBN
978-0-7136-3336-8
.
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Who's who of British Members of Parliament: 1945-1979
. Harvester Press. 1981. p. 111.
ISBN
9780855273354
.
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G. H. Brown; Richard Robertson Trail; Gordon Ethelbert Ward Wolstenholme (1968).
Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London
. Royal College of Physicians. p. 123.