Events
- 28 March - Rhondda East by-election
- 20 April - 28 people are injured at Cockett station when a loco travelling from Swansea to Neyland collided into the rear of the stationary 11.55am Paddington to Milford Haven service
- 22 July - Amy Johnson and Jim Mollison take off from Pendine on the first non-stop flight from the UK to the US.
- Seven men and four women receive custodial sentences after a riot at Bedwas.
- Ronald Lockley establishes the first British bird observatory on Skokholm.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who live, as they can or must, the events that arrive; the other is of people who live, as they intend, the events they create.”
—Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)
“Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)