1979 in Wales

none 1979 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1979 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1979 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Secretary of State for Wales – John Morris (until 5 May);Pryde, E. B. Greenway, D. E. Porter, S. Roy, I. Handbook of British Chronology https://books.google.com/books?id=zcgxEvGAK_kC&pg=PA157 1996-02-23 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-56350-5 157 Nicholas EdwardsLord Crickhowell obituary https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/19/lord-crickhowell-obituary 20 March 2018 The Guardian 19 March 2018 Archbishop of Wales – Gwilym Williams, Bishop of BangorNA NA The Macmillan Guide to the United Kingdom 1978-79 https://books.google.com/books?id=Ot-vCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA875 25 December 2015 Springer 978-1-349-81511-1 875 Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Geraint Events 1 March - The devolution referendum rejects the Wales Act 1978 (which would have established a Welsh Assembly) by four to one. The Parliamentary Select Committee on Welsh Affairs is subsequently established.Governing the UK in the 1990s https://archive.org/details/governingukin19900robe registration 20 March 1995 Macmillan International Higher Education 978-1-349-23899-6 214 18 May - Annie Powell of Rhondda becomes Britain's first Communist mayor.Milorad M. Drachkovitch Lewis H. Gann Yearbook on International Communist Affairs https://books.google.com/books?id=Bq3mAAAAMAAJ 1980 Hoover Institution Press 160 7 June - In the elections for the European Parliament, Ann Clwyd and Win Griffiths are among the newly elected MEPs. Plaid Cymru win 11.7% of the vote in Wales but win no seats.European Integration and the Nationalities Question. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2006. 8 June - A Cessna aircraft crashes into a mountain in Snowdonia, killing all six occupants.European Integration and the Nationalities Question Taylor & Francis John McGarry 2006 9781134145492 1943 14 August - A rainbow which stretches from the Gwynedd coast to Clwyd persists for over 3 hours, a world record which stands for more than 15 years.Marc Waddington On this day in 1979 North Wales set an unusual world record https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/day-1979-north-wales-set-18773446 North Wales Live 2020-08-14 2023-08-14 12 December - Four holiday homes in rural Wales are the target of arson attacks by Welsh Nationalist political activists. Arts and literature Awards Michael Bogdanov is named "Director of the Year" for the Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Taming of the Shrew.RSA Journal, volume 142 Royal Society of Arts 1994 57 National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Caernarfon) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - withheld National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Meirion Evans National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Robyn Lewis New books English language Gillian Clarke - The Sundial Wendy Davies - The Llandaff Charters Christopher Evans - The Mighty MicroB. Jack Copeland Jonathan Bowen Mark Sprevak Robin Wilson The Turing Guide Oxford University Press 2017 9780198747826 464 Emyr Humphreys - The Best of Friendshttps://www.uwp.co.uk/book/the-best-of-friends/ The Best of Friends University of Wales Press 26 January 2025 Sian James - A Small Country.Mary Eagleton Emma Parker The History of British Women's Writing, 1970-Present: Volume Ten https://books.google.com/books?id=WQHeCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT151 29 April 2016 Springer 978-1-137-29481-4 151– Tristan Jones - The Incredible Voyage Anna Kashfi - Brando for Breakfast Leslie Norris - Sliding1979 Britannica Book of the Year Encyclopaedia Britannica 1979 9780852293621 503 Gwyn Alf Williams - The Merthyr Rising Raymond Williams - The Fight for Manod Welsh language Pennar Davies - Mabinogi MwysStudia Celtica https://books.google.com/books?id=vlRiAAAAMAAJ 1983 University of Wales Press Marion Eames - I Hela Cnau Dic Jones - Storom Awst John Rowlands - Tician, Tician Music Dave Edmunds - Repeat When Necessary (album) Bonnie Tyler - Diamond Cut (album) Film Rachel Roberts wins the BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Yanks. Emlyn Williams' play, The Corn is Green, is filmed for the second time, starring Katharine Hepburn. A full-scale model of the fictional starship Millennium Falcon is constructed by Marcon Fabrications in the Western Sunderland Flying Boat hangar at Pembroke Dock for the film The Empire Strikes Back (1980).https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/4555455.stm Town's secret Star Wars history Parry Nick 2005-05-18 2022-05-23 BBC News Broadcasting BBC Radio Cymru is launched. New Home Secretary William Whitelaw rejects the idea of a Welsh fourth channel on behalf of the Conservative government. English-language television Colin Jeavons stars in Dennis Potter's classic play, Blue Remembered Hills.W. Stephen Gilbert The Life and Work of Dennis Potter https://books.google.com/books?id=e00jCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT321 1 January 2002 The Overlook Press 978-1-4683-0561-6 321 Sport BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Terry GriffithsBBC Wales Sport Personality winners https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/20670643 BBC Sport 2 August 2021 Boxing - Pat Thomas wins the British Light-middleweight title Rugby union - Wales win the Five Nations Championship and take the Triple Crown. Snooker - Terry Griffiths wins the World Championship in his first year as a professional.https://www.eurosport.com/snooker/profile-terry-griffiths_sto2207915/story.shtml Profile: Terry Griffiths 3 February 2010 Eurosport 16 May 2019 Births January – Emma Wools, Police and Crime Commissioner for South Waleshttps://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/hYS057x0T3nO_E6JllWtEXc4-ow/appointments Emma Clare WOOLS gov.uk 6 May 2024 en 4 February – Mike Williams, journalist 15 February – Josh Low, footballer 21 February – Laura Anne Jones MS, politician 26 February – Steve Evans, footballer 15 April - Luke Evans, actor 17 May – Michaela Breeze, weightlifting championhttp://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/9/225599.shtml Michaela Breeze Beijing 2008 results https://web.archive.org/web/20080909174452/http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/9/225599.shtml 27 October 2020 2008-09-09 3 June – Christian Malcolm, athletehttps://worldathletics.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/christian-malcolm-14189990 Christian Malcolm World Athletics 27 October 2020 20 June – Gareth Bowen, rugby union playerhttps://www.blackandambers.co.uk/player?id=100424&authtoken=REE1NUQwNEEtQzkxMy00NTlELTkzNDktMEM0MkU3QTBFMTg2&teamid=MTA0MjU5 Gareth Bowen Newport RFC 26 January 2025 12 July – Danny Williams, footballer 13 July – Craig Bellamy, footballer 1 August - Honeysuckle Weeks, actress 8 August – Danny Gabbidon, footballer 12 September – Chris Hughes, football managerChris Hughes https://www.tntsports.co.uk/football/chris-hughes_prs360957/person.shtml TNT Sports 16 May 2024 18 September – Rhys Thomas, TV director and producer 16 October – Jonathan Edwards, poet unknown date – Mark Bowden, composerhttps://www.markbowden.net/about/about/shortbiography.html Short biography Mark Bowden official website 26 January 2025 Deaths January – Dilys Cadwaladr, poet, 76 7 February – Charles Tunnicliffe, painter on Anglesey, 77Birds https://books.google.com/books?id=hPVKAAAAYAAJ 1980 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. 13 February – Eric Newton Griffith-Jones, Welsh-descended lawyer, 65Graya: A Magazine for Members of Gray's Inn, Issue 73, Gray's Inn, 1979 13 March – Tudor Owen, actor, 81Scott Wilson Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. https://books.google.com/books?id=7-DgDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA569 17 August 2016 McFarland 978-0-7864-7992-4 569 15 April (in Surrey) – Eiluned Lewis, novelist, 78Who was who https://books.google.com/books?id=HT4OAQAAMAAJ 1971 A. & C. Black 467 14 May – Jean Rhys, novelist, 88 9 June – John Morris, Baron Morris of Borth-y-Gest, judge, 82 16 July – Harold Finch, politician, 81https://biography.wales/article/s6-FINC-JOS-1898 Finch, Harold Josiah (1898-1979), Labour politician John Graham Jones Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 27 October 2020 30 August – C. E. Wynn-Williams, physicist, 76 2 September – Ewan Davies, rugby player, 92scrum.com profile 10 October (in Teddington) – Christopher Evans, computer scientist, 48The Skeptical Inquirer https://books.google.com/books?id=Zm4xAQAAIAAJ 1979 Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal 11 12 October – Jackie Williams, footballer, 76 November – Ursula Williams, politician, 83"Deaths." Times [London, England] 5 Dec. 1979: 28. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 14 Feb. 2014. 12 December – Goronwy Rees, writer, 70? Goronwy Rees (1909-1979) From Warfare to Welfare http://www.myglyw.org.uk/index.php?id=4362 20 February 2015 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20150221061712/http://www.myglyw.org.uk/index.php?id=4362 21 February 2015 20 December – Leslie Gilbert Illingworth, political cartoonist, 77John Davies John Davies (historian) Nigel Jenkins Nigel Jenkins Baines Menna Peredur I. Lynch The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales 2008 390 University of Wales Press Cardiff 978-0-7083-1953-6 21 December – Nansi Richards, harpist, 91Evans Nia Gwyn Jones, Nansi Richards ('Telynores Maldwyn ') (1888-1979), harpist s10-RICH-NAN-1888 National Library of Wales 1 August 2018 2016 29 December – Richard Tecwyn Williams, biochemist, 7031837 Williams, (Richard) Tecwyn date unknown Hugh Bevan, academic Dilys Davies, actress Trebor Lloyd Evans, writerRobert Tudur Jones Congregationalism in Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=SILZAAAAMAAJ 2004 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1887-4 Jennie Thomas, children's author probable – William Evans, rugby player, about 88 See also 1979 in Northern Ireland References Wales Wales Category:1970s in Wales Category:1979 in Europe