1965 in Wales

none 1965 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1965 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1965 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Secretary of State for Wales – Jim Griffiths Archbishop of Wales – Edwin Morris, Bishop of Monmouth Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Cynan Events May – Opening of Llandegfedd Reservoir by Newport Corporation.http://www.newportpast.com/hd/chronology.htm Newport Past Chronology of the Twentieth Century Haydn Davis 2015-03-08 17 May – Thirty-one miners are killed in a mining accident at the Cambrian Colliery, Clydach Vale, Rhondda. 24 May – The first drive-on car ferry service between Fishguard and Rosslare Harbour (Ireland) officially opens. 15 June – The Hughes-Parry Committee submits its report on the legal status of the Welsh language.Hansard 1965. 21 October – Official opening of Llyn Celyn reservoir. 17 December – A landslide on the main railway line at Bridgend kills a train driver and co-driver. unknown dates Foundation of Undeb y Cymraeg Byw ("Union of Living Welsh"). Mount Stuart Primary School, Cardiff, appoints Betty Campbell, the first black female head teacher in WalesWales's First Black Headteacher commemorated in striking artwork https://www.cardiffnewsroom.co.uk/releases/c25/30841.html Cardiff Newsroom 28 February 2023 2 October 2024 Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Newtown, Montgomeryshire) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – William David Williams National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Tom Parri Jones National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – Eigra Lewis Roberts New books English language Peter Bryan George – Commander-1 Julian Mitchell – The White Father Welsh language Bedwyr Lewis Jones (ed.) – Blodeugerdd o'r Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg Gwilym Meredydd Jones – Dawns yr Ysgubau Music 12 December – The Beatles' last live U.K. tour concludes with two performances at the Capitol, Cardiff.Live: Capitol Cinema, Cardiff The Beatles Bible http://www.beatlesbible.com/1965/12/12/live-capitol-cinema-cardiff-3/ 1965-12-12 2014-02-19 Tom Jones releases the film theme, "What's New Pussycat?" as a single. Rockfield Studios (near Rockfield, Monmouthshire) becomes the world's first residential recording studio. Film Richard Burton stars in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, for which he would be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1966 The 38th Academy Awards 1966 Oscars 29 December 2018 Glynis Johns stars in Mary Poppins. Tryweryn, the Story of a Valley (film made by Friars School, Bangor).https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-tryweryn-the-story-of-a-valley-1965-online Tryweryn, the Story of a Valley BFI Online 29 December 2018 Theatre 26 March – Harold Pinter's play The Homecoming has its world première at the New Theatre, Cardiff.Benedict Nightingale review: The Homecoming at Cardiff Nightingale Benedict The Guardian 1965-03-27 6 Broadcasting February - BBC2 is received in South Wales for the first time, as a result of a new transmitter.David Maxwell Barlow Tom O'Malley Philip Mitchell The media in Wales: voices of a small nation https://books.google.com/books?id=ezhiAAAAMAAJ 2005 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1840-9 131 date unknown - Arwel Hughes becomes Head of Music at BBC Wales.Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command https://books.google.com/books?id=H1k6AQAAIAAJ 1965 H.M. Stationery Office Welsh-language television Dafydd Iwan begins appearing regularly on TWW's Y Dydd.Jamie Medhurst A History of Independent Television in Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=YXyvBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA140 1 June 2010 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-2308-3 140 English-language television As I See It, presented by Gwyn Thomas Sport Rugby union – Wales win the Triple Crown for the first time in 13 years. BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Clive RowlandsBBC Wales Sport Personality winners https://www.bbc.com/sport/wales/20670643 BBC Sport 29 July 2021 Births 5 January – Vinnie Jones, footballer (in Watford, England)Vinnie Jones It's Been Emotional https://books.google.com/books?id=ke41DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA9 17 July 2014 Simon and Schuster 978-1-4711-2759-5 9– 22 February – Steve Speirs, born Steven Roberts, actor 2 March (in Bangor, County Down) – Lembit Öpik, politician 6 March – Allan Bateman, rugby player 1 April – Alexandra Shân "Tiggy" Legge-Bourke, royal nannyFrancis Wheen Hoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies: Collected Journalism, 1991-2001 https://archive.org/details/hoohahspassingfr0000whee registration 2002 Atlantic 978-1-903809-42-6 9 April – Colin Pascoe, footballer April – Manon Antoniazzi, née Jenkins, Chief Executive and Clerk of the Senedd 3 May – Rob Brydon, comedian and actorRob Brydon Small Man in a Book https://books.google.com/books?id=Ugv6OkzjDxMC&pg=PT8 2012 Penguin Books, Limited 978-0-241-95482-9 8 8 May – Andy Dibble, footballer 11 May – Jeremy Goss, footballer 16 May – Vincent Regan, actor 25 August – David Taylor, soccer player and manager 13 September – Andrew Williams, cricketer 16 October – Floyd Havard, British super-featherweight boxing champion 30 October – Michael Tremellen, cricketer 9 November – Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone singerhttps://www.classicfm.com/artists/bryn-terfel/welsh-bass-baritone-age-family-songs-height/ Bryn Terfel: who is the Welsh bass-baritone? en Classic-FM 12 August 2025 date unknown – Patrick Jones, poet and author Deaths 7 January – Sarah Edwards, actress, 83Evelyn Mack Truitt Who was who on screen https://books.google.com/books?id=irZmAAAAMAAJ 1 July 1977 Bowker 978-0-8352-0914-4 139 18 January – Ernest Evans, politician, 79https://biography.wales/article/s2-EVAN-ERN-1885 Evans, Ernest (1885-1965), county court judge, M.P. Evan David Jones Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 19 March 2020 29 January – T. Harri Jones, poet and academic, 43 (suicide)Belinda Humfrey 'Fire green as grass': studies of the creative impulse in Anglo-Welsh poetry and short stories of the twentieth century https://books.google.com/books?id=euVZAAAAMAAJ March 1995 Gomer 978-1-85902-168-2 112 4 February Hugh Morriston Davies, thoracic surgeon, 85https://biography.wales/article/s2-DAVI-MOR-1879 Davies, Hugh Morriston (1879-1965), probably the most outstanding pioneer of thoracic surgery in Britain Emyr Wyn Jones Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 19 March 2020 Llywelyn Williams, politician, 53Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Journals of the House of Commons https://books.google.com/books?id=TbdWAAAAYAAJ 1964 order of the House of Commons 124 5 February – Sir David Brunt, meteorologist, 78Indian Journal of Meteorology & Geophysics https://books.google.com/books?id=4pscAQAAIAAJ 1965 India Meteorological Department 527 1 April – Sir John William Bowen, trade unionist and politician, 88"Obituary: Sir William Bowen", The Times, 2 April 1965 22 April – Glyn Stephens, Wales international rugby union captain, 73 3 May – Howard Spring, novelist, 76Marion Ursula Howard Spring Howard https://books.google.com/books?id=soAPAAAAMAAJ 1967 Collins 13 29 May – Steve Morris, Wales international rugby player, 68 16 June – Dai Parker, Wales and British Lion rugby player, 60 17 July (in Scarborough) – Dan Lewis, footballer 18 August – Christmas Price Williams, politician, 83https://biography.wales/article/s2-WILL-PRI-1881 Williams, Christmas Price (1881-1965), politician and engineer John Graham Jones Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 19 March 2020 24 August – Elvyn Bowen, cricketer, 58 30 August – Llew Edwards, boxer, 72 11 September – Trevor Preece, cricketer, 82 1 October – Gareth Hughes, actor, 71John A. Willis Screen World https://books.google.com/books?id=3MczAQAAIAAJ 1983 Crown Publishers 237 9 October – Russell Taylor, Wales international rugby player, 50 16 October – Hywel Davies, radio broadcaster, television interviewer and writer, 46Hywel Davies https://biography.wales/article/s2-DAVI-HYW-1919 Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales Williams Griffith John 23 May 2017 22 October – William Williams, Victoria Cross recipient, 75Max Arthur Symbol of Courage: The Men Behind the Medal https://books.google.com/books?id=7JjBbZwtikwC&pg=PA684 2005 Pan Macmillan 978-0-330-49133-4 684 31 October – John Roberts, Wales international rugby player, 59 4 November – Ifor Williams, academic, 84British Academy Interpreters of Early Medieval Britain https://books.google.com/books?id=NVLJD0nweukC&pg=PA304 2002 British Academy 978-0-19-726277-1 304 8 November – George Hall, politician, 83Frank C. Roberts Obituaries from the Times https://books.google.com/books?id=8iUOAQAAMAAJ 1961 Newspaper Archive Developments Limited 335 23 November – Murray Humphreys, Chicago mobster of Welsh descent, 66Virgil W. Peterson The Mob: 200 Years of Organized Crime in New York https://archive.org/details/mob200yearsofor00pete registration 1983 Green Hill Publishers 978-0-89803-123-2 416 26 December – Llewelyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies, Victoria Cross recipient, 87Max Arthur Symbol of Courage: The Men Behind the Medal https://books.google.com/books?id=7JjBbZwtikwC&pg=PA684 2005 Pan Macmillan 978-0-330-49133-4 671 29 December – Claude Warner, cricketer, 83 See also 1965 in Northern Ireland References Wales Wales Category:1965 in Europe Category:1960s in Wales