1958 in Wales

none 1958 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1958 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1958 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Minister of Welsh Affairs – Henry BrookeThomas Glyn Watkin The Legal History of Wales University of Wales Press 2012 192 Archbishop of Wales – Edwin Morris, Bishop of Monmouth"Alfred Edwin Morris – Archbishop of Wales" in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (1991), 42 : 527-528 CUP Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – William MorrisThe Illustrated London News Illustrated London News & Sketch Limited 1958 248 Events 18 January – Nigel Birch resigns as Economic Secretary to the Treasury. 5 February – The Wales national football team qualifies for this summer's World Cup in Sweden under the management of Jimmy Murphy.John Robinson Soccer: The World Cup, 1930-2002 Soccer Books Limited 2002 9781862230651 192 6 February – Manchester United F.C., the English league champions where Jimmy Murphy is also assistant manager, are involved in a plane crash in Munich, West Germany, on the journey home from a European Cup tie in Yugoslavia. Seven United players are among the 21 people who die, but among the survivors is Swansea-born winger Kenny Morgans.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/20388051 Munich survivor Morgans dies BBC Sport 25 February – The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is launched by Bertrand Russell. 2 April – Accidental discovery of the Caernarfon Mithraeum.Archaeologia Cambrensis W. Pickering 1961 136 6 May – Murderer Vivian Teed is hanged by Robert Leslie Stewart in Swansea Prison, the last hanging to take place in Wales.http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/teed.html Vivian Teed - the last man hanged in Wales www.capitalpunishmentuk.org 3 December 2018 19 June – Wales are knocked out of the World Cup in the quarter-finals, losing to Brazil.https://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/jun/20/wales-last-world-cup-game 19 June 1958: Wales's last World Cup game TheGuardian.com 19 June 2009 26 July – At the Empire Games in Cardiff, Elizabeth II announces that her son, The Prince Charles (now Charles III), is to be created Prince of Wales.Annette Joelson Heirs to the Throne: the Story of the Prince of Wales Heinemann 1966 219 6 August – Daniel Granville West becomes the first Welsh life peer. 18 August Accidental discovery of Brymbo Man (c.2000 BCE). Regional postage stamps of Great Britain are first issued. 24 October – Huw T. Edwards announces his resignation from the chair of the Council for Wales and Monmouthshire in protest at the decision to flood the Tryweryn valley. 13 December – New road bridge across the River Conway at Conway supersedes Telford's suspension bridge. Thomas Parry becomes Principal of University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Ebbw Vale) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – T. Llew Jones, "Caerllion ar Wysg"https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod of Wales 17 November 2019 27 December 2019 13 February 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210213204407/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair dead National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Llywelyn Jones, "Cymod"https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners Winners of the Crown National Eisteddfod of Wales 17 November 2019 27 December 2019 7 November 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191107194429/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners dead National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – Edward Cynolwyn Pugh, "Hunangofiant: Ei Ffanffer ei Hun"https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-prose-medal Winners of the Prose Medal National Eisteddfod of Wales 7 November 2019 7 November 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191107194428/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-prose-medal dead New books English language Tom Beynon – Howell Harris, Reformer and Soldier Brenda Chamberlain – The Green Heart Paul Ferris – A Changed Man Cyril Fox – Pattern and purpose: a study of early Celtic art in Britain Peter George – Red AlertPeter Bryant Peter George Red Alert https://books.google.com/books?id=T6MUBeL6t1IC 1958 Ace Books, Incorporated 978-1-59654-582-3 Emyr Humphreys – A Toy Epichttp://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/halloffame/arts/emyrhumphreys.shtml https://web.archive.org/web/20031206015118/http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/halloffame/arts/emyrhumphreys.shtml dead December 6, 2003 BBC - North West Wales Arts -Emyr Humphreys BBC Wales 1 February 2010 Bertrand Russell – Understanding History and Other Essays Raymond Williams – Culture and Society Mulhern Francis Francis Mulhern Culture and Society, Then and Now New Left Review II 55 New Left Review January–February 2009 http://newleftreview.org/II/55/francis-mulhern-culture-and-society-then-and-now Welsh language Aneirin Talfan Davies – Englynion a Chywyddau Islwyn Ffowc Elis – Blas y Cynfyd Bobi Jones – Nid yw Dwr yn Plygu D. Gwenallt Jones – Cofiant Idwal JonesNational Library of Wales Annual Report - National Library of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=zzLx3JrPJ2IC 1969 39 T. Llew Jones – Trysor Plas y wernen and Merched y môr a chwedlau eraill Ernest Llwyd Williams – Crwydro Sir BenfroNational Library of Wales Meic Stephens A reader's guide to Wales: a selected bibliography https://books.google.com/books?id=hMnfAAAAMAAJ 1 January 1973 National Book League 38 9780853531678 New drama George Fisher – Y Ferch a'r DewinMeic Stephens Cydymaith i lenyddiaeth Cymru https://books.google.com/books?id=WoMYAAAAIAAJ 1998 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1383-1 247 John Gwilym Jones – Lle Mynno'r Gwynt Saunders Lewis – Brad Music Daniel Jones – The Country Beyond the Stars (cantata)Randel Don The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music https://books.google.com/books?id=jEGpMqRcQjIC&pg=PA427 1996 Harvard University Press 978-0-674-37299-3 427 Ian Parrott – Cor Anglais concerto Film Richard Burton stars in the film version of Look Back in Anger. Ronald Lewis co-stars in The Wind Cannot Read. Release of The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, with location scenes (representing China) filmed around Nantmor near Beddgelert. Broadcasting July – In order to broadcast the British Empire and Commonwealth Games from Cardiff, a broadcasting centre is set up on the bank of the River Taff, near Cardiff Arms Park. Welsh-language television Commercial TV becomes available in Wales, broadcasting some Welsh-language programmes, such as Amser Te.TWW English-language television 30 November – During the live broadcast of the Armchair Theatre play Underground on the ITV network, actor Gareth Jones has a fatal heart attack between two of his scenes. Gwlad y Gân / Land of Song, with Ivor Emmanuel and Sian Hopkins Sports British Empire and Commonwealth Games (held in Cardiff): Wales' single gold medal is won by Howard Winstone in the bantamweight boxing competition. Silver medals are won by: John Merriman (6 miles), Malcolm Collins (featherweight boxing), and Robert Higgins (light-heavyweight boxing). Due to being on National Service in the British Army, Swansea fighter Brian Curvis competes in the games for England, winning a bronze medal at welterweight. Football – Wales reaches the quarter-finals of the World Cup, being knocked out by a goal from Pelé. Gymnastics – Margaret Neale of Cardiff is the British Women's Champion for the second year running. BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Howard WinstoneBBC Wales Sport Personality winners BBC Sport https://www.bbc.com/sport/wales/20670643 29 July 2021 Births 4 January – Gary Jones, actor 1 March – Ian Love, footballer 2 March – Ian Woosnam, golferhttps://www.independent.co.uk/sport/famous-five-on-the-40th-fairway-1264770.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/famous-five-on-the-40th-fairway-1264770.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Famous five on the 40th fairway 2 April 1997 Andy Farrell The Independent 18 March 2019 8 March – Wayne Hughes, footballer 16 April – Caryl Parry Jones, singer 30 April – Claire Curtis-Thomas, politicianhttps://suite.endole.co.uk/insight/people/17876281-mrs-claire-curtis-thomas Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas Endole 18 March 2019 8 May – Aneirin Hughes, actor 17 May – Paul Whitehouse, actor, writer and comedianComic Paul tells of talent change Wales on Sunday – 28 October 2007 3 July – Siân Lloyd, television presenter 18 July – Chris Ruane, politicianValerie Passmore Dod's Parliamentary Companion: Guide to the General Election, 2005 https://books.google.com/books?id=XhMWAQAAIAAJ 2005 Dod's Parliamentary Companion Limited 978-0-905702-57-5 341 19 July – Angharad Tomos, author 3 September (in Totnes) – Tamsin Dunwoody, politician 16 September – Neville Southall, footballer 4 October – Anneka Rice, television presenterScreen International Film and TV Year Book https://books.google.com/books?id=6uBkAAAAMAAJ 1990 Screen International, King Publications Limited 978-0-900925-21-4 193 24 November – Robin Llywelyn, novelist date unknown – Cerith Wyn Evans, conceptual artist Deaths 31 January – Edgar Long, Wales international rugby player January/February – William Beynon, Canadian oral historian, of Welsh parentage, 69/70B.C. Indian Authority Dies" (obituary for William Beynon). Vancouver, B.C., Province, February 11, 1958, p. 28. 6 February – Charles Langbridge Morgan, novelist and dramatist, 64The Encyclopedia Americana https://books.google.com/books?id=n3ExAQAAIAAJ 1980 Americana Corp 451 9780717201112 11 February – Ernest Jones, psychoanalyst, 79Davies Thomas Gruffydd 2001 Jones, Alfred Ernest https://biography.wales/article/s2-JONE-ERN-1879 Roberts Brynley F. Brynley F. Roberts The Dictionary of Welsh Biography Aberystwyth, Wales National Library of Wales 26 October 2017 18 February – Rhisiart Morgan Davies, physicist, 55Melfyn Richard Williams Davies, Rhisiart Morgan (1903-1958), scientist and professor of physics https://biography.wales/article/s2-DAVI-MOR-1903 The Dictionary of Welsh Biography Aberystwyth, Wales National Library of Wales 26 December 2019 2 April – Tudor Davies, singer, 65Gerald Norris A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=KcMXAQAAIAAJ June 1981 David & Charles 978-0-7153-7845-8 295 3 April – John Strand-Jones, Wales international rugby union player 19 April – Billy Meredith, footballer, 83 28 April – Joseph Booth, rugby player, 84/85Fred Booth player profile Scrum.com 18 July – Ernie Jenkins, Wales international rugby player, 77 20 July (in London) – Margaret Haig Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda, political campaigner and businesswoman, 75https://biography.wales/article/s2-THOM-HAI-1883 Thomas, Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda (1883-1958), author, editor and chairperson of companies Evan David Jones Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 15 March 2019 29 August – Harry Beadles, international footballer, 60 25 September – Henry Arthur Evans, politician, 60 9 October – Sven Hansen, ship-owner, 82Obituary, The Times, 16 October 1958 30 October – Tommy Vile, Welsh international rugby player, 76 4 November – Dick Jones, Welsh international rugby player, 78 30 November (in Manchester) – Gareth Jones, actor, 33 November – Ivor Lewis, Welsh-Canadian artist, 76Ontario Reports: Reports of Cases Determined in the Courts of Ontario https://books.google.com/books?id=L_dKAQAAIAAJ 1966 Canada Law Book 13 December – Rose Davies, teacher, feminist, and labour activist, 66Neil Evans, "(Florence) Rose Davies" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press 2011): accessed 1 April 2016; doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/70090 date unknown – Evan Edwards, footballer, 59/60 See also 1958 in Northern Ireland References Wales Category:1958 in Europe Category:1950s in Wales