Sport
- The Welsh Baseball Union is founded.
- Boxing
- 24 April - Gipsy Daniels wins the British light-heavyweight championship.
- 9 July - Tosh Powell beats Johnny Edmunds to become the new Welsh bantamweight champion.
- Frank Moody wins the British lightweight and middleweight titles.
- Football
- 23 April – For the only time in its history, the FA Cup is won by a non-English team -- Cardiff City F.C., who defeat Arsenal 1-0 in the first broadcast final.
- Abergavenny Thursdays F.C. is formed.
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“For generations, a wide range of shooting in Northern Ireland has provided all sections of the population with a pastime which ... has occupied a great deal of leisure time. Unlike many other countries, the outstanding characteristic of the sport has been that it was not confined to any one class.”
—Northern Irish Tourist Board. quoted in New Statesman (London, Aug. 29, 1969)
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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