1987 in Wales

none 1987 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1987 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1987 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Secretary of State for Wales – Nicholas Edwards (until 13 June);https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/19/lord-crickhowell-obituary Lord Crickhowell obituary 19 March 2018 The Guardian Stephen Bates 19 March 2020 Peter Walker Archbishop of Wales – George Noakes, Bishop of St David's (elected)http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4374198.ece https://archive.today/20100523101347/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4374198.ece dead May 23, 2010 The Right Rev George Noakes: Archbishop of Wales, 1987-1991 22 July 2008 Times, The (London) 27 July 2008 Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales Elerydd (outgoing)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/wj-gruffydd-writer-who-helped-keep-alive-the-welsh-tradition-of-lsquo-country-poets-rsquo-2316933.html WJ Gruffydd: Writer who helped keep alive the Welsh tradition 20 July 2011 The Independent 11 May 2022 Emrys Deudraeth (incoming)https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17565600 Former Archdruid of Wales Emrys Roberts dies at 82 1 April 2012 30 March 2012 BBC News Events 12 January - The lowest daytime maximum temperature ever recorded in Wales (−8.0 °C) is recorded at Trecastle, Powys.R Brugge Low daytime temperatures over England and Wales on 12 January 1987 Weather 1987 42 5 146–152 10.1002/j.1477-8696.1987.tb06953.x 1987Wthr...42..146B 12 February - The Roman Catholic Church in Wales creates a new Diocese of WrexhamDavid Pepin Discovering Cathedrals https://books.google.com/books?id=LWHy1T_hTfEC 1994 Shire Publications 978-0-7478-0173-3 169 and moves the Diocese of Menevia to Swansea. 5 March - The High Court declares Dorothy Squires a vexatious litigant.Punch https://books.google.com/books?id=8u8eAQAAMAAJ January 1990 124 15 March - Roy Jenkins is elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford.What a swell party this is ..And, by the way, we also elected a chancellor – The triumph of Roy Jenkins The Times 15 March 1987 14 April - Oakwood Leisure Park opens near Narberth, Pembrokeshire.https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/girl-16-dies-after-roller-coaster-fall-56276.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/girl-16-dies-after-roller-coaster-fall-56276.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Girl, 16, dies after roller-coaster fall 16 April 2004 Chris Bunting The Independent 27 September 2019 7 May - District council elections take place across Wales (and England). The Conservatives lose control of Cardiff City Council.Michael Thomas Tories lose city control, but council hung South Wales Echo 8 May 1987 1–2 24 May - Neil Kinnock is interviewed by David Frost about Labour's defence policy and plans for government. 28 May - The Mametz Wood Memorial, sculpted by David Petersen, is unveiled in Cardiff.Wyke Terry Cocks Harry Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester 2004 Liverpool University Press 9780853235675 457 https://books.google.com/books?id=mFOhWSH9B6wC&pg=PA457 15 April 2015 11 June - In the general election Plaid Cymru's Ieuan Wyn Jones wins the seat of Ynys Môn from the Conservatives. Plaid retain their other two parliamentary seats.Byron Criddle The Almanac of British Politics https://books.google.com/books?id=4LPsrwLbOs0C&pg=PA892 19 August 2005 Routledge 978-1-134-49381-4 892 Alun Michael replaces James Callaghan as MP for Cardiff South. Labour's Paul Flynn wins back Newport West from the Conservatives. 11 July - The Mametz Wood Memorial is dedicated at the site of the Royal Welch Fusiliers battle of 1916 in France.https://archives.library.wales/index.php/ceremony-of-dedication-mametz-wood-memorial File NLW ex 2596. - Ceremony of dedication : Mametz Wood memorial National Library of Wales 27 September 2019 5 October - Keith Best, former Conservative MP for Ynys Môn, having been sentenced to four months' imprisonment for share-dealing activities, has his sentence quashed by the Court of Appeal after serving five days.Michael Levi Fraud: Organization, Motivation, and Control https://books.google.com/books?id=A5cbAQAAMAAJ 1999 Ashgate 978-1-85521-716-4 389 19 October - Four people are killed in the Glanrhyd Bridge collapse, when a train falls into the swollen River Tywi,Report on the Collapse of Glanrhyd Bridge (1990), page 1 as a result of the flooding that affects many parts of Wales. 20 November - Roy Jenkins becomes Baron Jenkins of Hillhead.51132 25 November 1987 14513 22 November - The Welsh language is used within the Vatican for the first time on an official occasion, as part of a beatification ceremony for three Welsh martyrs.Ivor Wynne Jones Llandudno: Queen of the Welsh Resorts https://books.google.com/books?id=ryMOAQAAMAAJ 2008 Landmark Publishing 978-1-84306-429-9 130 date unknown Creation of the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation. Chris Loyn establishes the architectural practice Loyn & Co in Penarth.Chris Loyn Building Dream Homes (BBC) 19 April 2012 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/3Mt12rRkN9j95ZH0wxTlFxG/chris-loyn 27 September 2019 The National Trust buys Dinefwr Park in Llandeilo, including the deer park. Arts and literature Jim Burns becomes the first non-American to win the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist.Steve Holland Sci-Fi Art: A Graphic History https://books.google.com/books?id=PVhLAQAAIAAJ 3 March 2009 HarperCollins 978-0-06-168489-0 71 Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Porthmadog) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Ieuan Wyn National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - John Griffith Jones National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Margiad Williams New books English language Dannie Abse - Ask the Bloody HorseThomas Riggs Contemporary Poets https://books.google.com/books?id=EEkOAQAAMAAJ 1996 St. James Press 978-1-55862-191-6 1 Rees Davies - Wales: The Age Of Conquest, 1063-1415Anthony Emery Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500: Volume 2, East Anglia, Central England and Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=FRw9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA699 1996 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-58131-8 699 Stephen Gregory - The Cormorant Douglas Houston - With the Offal Eaters J. Beverley Smith - Llywelyn ap Gruffudd Frances Thomas - Seeing Things Peter Thomas - Strangers from a Secret Land R. S. Thomas - Welsh Airs Welsh language Euros Bowen - Oes y MedwsaCeri Davies Welsh Literature and the Classical Tradition https://books.google.com/books?id=-pViAAAAMAAJ 1995 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1321-3 T. Glynne Davies - Cerddi Dafydd Glyn Jones - Drych yr Amseroedd Nesta Wyn Jones - Rhwng Chwerthin a Chrio Alan Llwyd - Barddoniaeth y Chwedegau Gwylon Phillips - Llofruddiaeth Shadrach Lewis Rhydwen Williams - Amser i Wylo Music 3 December - Indian classical musician Ram Narayan records his album Rag Lalit at Wyastone Leys near Monmouth. MusicFest Aberystwyth is founded by cellist Nicholas Jones. The Alarm - Eye Of The Hurricane (album) Anrhefn - Defaid Skateboard a WelliesRhys Mwyn Cam O'r Tywyllwch Y Lolfa 2012 9781847715821 cy Y Cyrff - Y Testament Newydd (EP) Frank Hennessy - Thoughts and Memories (album) Karl Wallinger - Private Revolution (album) Film Timothy Dalton makes his debut as James Bond in The Living Daylights. On the Black Hill, adapted from the novel by Bruce Chatwin and set in Wales, stars Bob Peck, Gemma Jones and Mike Gwilym.http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/498157/index.html On The Black Hill (1987) BFI Screenonline 13 August 2018 Broadcasting English-language radio John Humphrys becomes a regular presenter on BBC Radio 4's Today programme. Welsh-language television Ioan Gruffudd joins the cast of Pobol y Cwm. Sport BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year - Ian Woosnam.BBC Wales Sport Personality winners BBC Sport https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/20670643 2 August 2021 Golf - David Llewellyn and Ian Woosnam win golf's World Cup in Hawaii. Rugby union Wales finish 4th in the 1987 Five Nations Championship with just a single win, over England. Wales finish third, their best ever position, in the first Rugby World Cup. 5 April - Pontypool Park hosts the first international for the Wales women's national rugby union team who lose 22–4 to England.http://www.rfu.com/news/2012/april/newsarticles/040512_england_women_25_anniversary Historic day for England Women's Rugby rfu.com 5 April 2012 6 January 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130709212514/http://www.rfu.com/news/2012/april/newsarticles/040512_england_women_25_anniversary 2013-07-09 dead Skiing - Dry ski slope opened on the Great Orme at Llandudno. Births 9 January - Bradley Davies, rugby union player 21 January - Joe Ledley, footballer 24 January - Wayne Hennessey, footballerBarry J. Hugman The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2009–10 2009 Mainstream Publishing Edinburgh 978-1-84596-474-0 14 February - Lee Selby, World champion boxer 24 March - Rob Davies, footballer 27 March - Adam Davies, footballer April - Hannah Stone, harpist 8 May - Aneurin Barnard, actorhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/aneurin-barnard/ Aneurin Barnard BBC Wales Arts 17 December 2019 23 August - Alexandra Roach, actress 4 September - Mike O'Shea, cricketer 29 September - Claire Williams, athlete 21 October - Steph Davies, cricketer 30 November - Victoria Thornley, Olympic rowerhttp://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/33835/ Victoria Thornley World Rowing 17 December 2019 Deaths 5 January - Brinley Williams, Wales dual-code rugby international, 91 21 January - Donald Holroyde Hey, chemist, 83 Cadogan J. I. G. John Cadogan Davies D. I. 10.1098/rsbm.1988.0011 Donald Holroyde Hey. 12 September 1904-21 January 1987 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 34 294–320 1988 770054 free 4 February - Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, writer and broadcaster, 78Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died https://books.google.com/books?id=5YkUAQAAIAAJ 1981 A. & C. Black 978-0-7136-3336-8 776 7 March - E. D. Jones, librarian, 83https://biography.wales/article/s10-JONE-DAV-1903 Jones, Evan David (1903-1987), librarian and archivist Daniel Huws Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 27 September 2019 4 April - Richard Ithamar Aaron, philosopher, 8565645 Aaron, Richard Ithamar (1901–1987) Jones O. R. 13 April - Alfred Evans, Labour MP, 73https://biography.wales/article/s6-EVAN-THO-1914 Evans, Alfred Thomas ('Fred' 'Menai') (1914—1987), Labour politician John Graham Jones Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 27 September 2019 19 April - Stan Richards, footballer, 70 22 May - Keidrych Rhys, poet and editorOutposts https://books.google.com/books?id=M6BAAQAAIAAJ 1994 Outposts Publications. 22 June - William Price, footballer, 83 20 August - Dorothy Rees, politician, 89Chris Williams, ‘Rees, Dame Dorothy Mary (1898–1987)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011 retrieved 10 January 2016 4 September - Richard Marquand, film director, 49 (stroke)Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror https://books.google.com/books?id=KpkjAQAAIAAJ 1987 Locus Press 978-0-9616629-4-3 11 September - Hugh David, television director, 62 25 September - Emlyn Williams, dramatist and actor, 81Krebs Albin September 26, 1987 Emlyn Williams, Welsh Actor and Writer, Dies https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/26/obituaries/emlyn-williams-welsh-actor-and-writer-dies.html The New York Times 2016-10-18 5 November - Howard Davies, rugby player, 70 date unknown - Clifford Williams, politician, Labour MP for Abertillery 1965–1970https://biography.wales/article/s8-WILL-CLI-1905 Williams, Albert Clifford (1905—1987), Labour politician John Graham Jones Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 27 September 2019 See also 1987 Cardiff City Council election 1987 in Northern Ireland Notes Wales Wales Category:1980s in Wales Category:1987 in Europe