Events
- 23 January - An RAF Halifax bomber crashes in the Elan Valley, killing nine crew.
- 28 March - Cardiff Blitz: Nine people are killed in an air raid on Cardiff.
- 11 April - An RAF Lancaster bomber crashes near Llanwrtyd Wells, killing eight crew.
- 16 August - Lt. Tasker Watkins leads a bayonet charge at Barfour in Normandy, winning the Victoria Cross for his courage.
- 2 October - Dylan Thomas is best man at the wedding of his friend Vernon Watkins in London - but fails to turn up.
- 17 October - The first "Welsh Day" debate takes place in the House of Commons (UK).
- 10 December - American Liberty ship Dan Beard is torpedoed off Strumble Head, resulting in the deaths of 29 crew.
- 20 December - An American B-24 Liberator plane crashes into the sea off Anglesey, killing eight crew.
- Plaid Cymru transfers its head office from Caernarfon to Cardiff.
- Morgan Phillips becomes Secretary of the Labour Party (UK), a position he will hold until 1961.
- Sir Thomas Williams Phillips becomes permanent secretary of the new government ministry created to implement the national insurance system.
- Sir David Brunt is awarded the royal medal of the Royal Society for his work in meteorology.
- Goronwy Owen and Llewellyn Thomas Gordon Soulsby are knighted.
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—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
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