1976 in Wales

none 1976 thumb|White Castle in 1976 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1976 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Secretary of State for Wales – John MorrisMorris of Aberavon, Baron, (John Morris) (born Nov. 1931) https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-28179 2021-05-05 WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO 2007 en 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u28179 978-0-19-954088-4 Archbishop of Wales – Gwilym Williams, Bishop of Bangorhttps://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2018/8-june/books-arts/book-reviews/welsh-golden-age-that-never-came Archbishop Gwilym Owen Williams — "G. O.": His life and opinions by D. T. W. Price David Wilbourne 8 June 2018 Church Times 6 May 2022 Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – BrynDillwyn Miles The Secret of the Bards of the Isle of Britain https://books.google.com/books?id=DJZiAAAAMAAJ 1992 Gwasg Dinefwr Press 978-0-9519926-0-9 193 Events 9 February - The Prince of Wales (now Charles III) becomes commander of Bronington.Paul Brown Historic Ships: The Survivors https://books.google.com/books?id=Y06oAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT155 15 March 2010 Amberley Publishing Limited 978-1-4456-2006-0 155 17 February - Operation Julie is launched; it eventually results in the break-up of one of the largest LSD manufacturing operations in the world.Andy Roberts Albion Dreaming: A popular history of LSD in Britain (Revised Edition with a new foreword by Dr. Sue Blackmore) https://books.google.com/books?id=2caIAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA218 30 September 2008 Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd 978-981-4328-97-5 218 March - The Welsh Regional Office of the European Community opens in Cardiff.Charlotte Aull Davies Welsh Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: The Ethnic Option and the Modern State https://books.google.com/books?id=tHlnAAAAMAAJ 1989 Praeger 978-0-275-93116-2 June–September - 1976 United Kingdom heat wave: A very hot summer brings a major drought with water shortages. July - Miners’ leader Dai Francis challenges the Prince of Wales (now Charles III), in the election for Chancellor of the University of Wales. 25 July - Former Submarine Commander Neil Rutherford, DSC & Bar, murders four people at the Red Gables Hotel in Penmaenmawr.North Wales Weekly News, 30 September 1976.https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/eerie-look-inside-scene-one-9488907 Inside the hotel where five people died in one of Wales' worst ever mass murders WalesOnline 22 June 2015 Nathan Bevan 31 December 2018 4 October - The InterCity 125 high speed train runs for the first time between Swansea railway station and London Paddington. 7 December - Swansea-born former fashion model Lilian Davies marries Prince Bertil of SwedenThe International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's who https://books.google.com/books?id=8XWmAAAAIAAJ 1992 Burke's Peerage Limited 978-0-611-00817-6 at Drottningholm Palace after a 30-year relationship. date unknown - David Emanuel marries Elizabeth Weiner.Richard Harrison Martin Contemporary Fashion https://books.google.com/books?id=dWIjAQAAIAAJ 1995 St. James Press 978-1-55862-173-2 Arts and literature May 27 - Actor Stanley Baker is given a knighthood in the Prime Minister's Resignation Honours, a few months before his death.Ellen Baker, 'My Husband, My Love', Woman's Own Magazine, December 1976 accessed 26 May 2012 August - Dic Jones loses the National Eisteddfod chair on a technicality. October - Mistar Urdd is created by Wynne Melville Jones.Wynne Melville Jones Wyn Mel https://books.google.com/books?id=REv2CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT64 14 August 2014 Y Lolfa 978-1-78461-029-6 64 cy unknown date - Griff Rhys Jones becomes Vice-President of the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club.M. J. Simpson Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams https://books.google.com/books?id=K-E2cAzsxwUC&pg=PA75 29 April 2005 Justin, Charles & Co. 978-1-932112-35-1 75 Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Cardigan) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Alan Llwyd National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Alan Llwyd National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Marged Prichard New books English language Ruth Bidgood - Not Without Homage Glyn Davies - Overseas Investment In Wales Kenneth O. Morgan - Keir Hardie Bernice Rubens - I Sent a Letter to My Love Welsh language John Emyr - Enaid ClwyfusNational Union Catalog https://books.google.com/books?id=1OM8AQAAIAAJ 1973 Rowman and Littlefield 467 Alun Llywelyn-Williams - Gwanwyn yn y Ddinas Owain Owain - Y Dydd Olaf Poetry J. M. Edwards - Cerddi Ddoe a Heddiw - Egin Donald Evans Geraint Jarman - Cerddi Alfred Street Gwilym R. Jones - Y Syrcas a Cherddi Eraill New drama John Gwilym Jones - Gobaith Mawr y Ganrif Music Edward H. Dafis - 'Sneb yn Becso Dam Alun Hoddinott - Murder the Magician (opera) Dafydd Iwan - Mae'r Darnau yn Disgyn i'w Lle (album) Geraint Jarman - Gobaith Mawr y Ganrif (album) Daniel Jones - Dance Fantasy Man - The Welsh Connection Bonnie Tyler - "Lost in France" (debut single) Film Welsh-language films Y Dieithryn, produced by Emlyn Williams Broadcasting Sir Huw Wheldon is knighted for his services to broadcasting. Welsh-language television Seren Wib, presented by Emyr Glasnant and Sharon MorganSharon Morgan Hanes Rhyw Gymraes. Y Lolfa cy 2012 Tybed? with Marged Esli Mae Gen i Stori Welsh language radio Tros Fy Sbectol English-language television How Green Was My Father: a Welsh Odyssey for 1976, with Ryan Davies and Max Boycehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00jfhsz How Green was my Father 17 September 2023 BBC 27 July 2011 Sport Football – The Wales national football team plays in the quarter-finals of UEFA Euro 1976. BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Mervyn Davies and the Wales national rugby union team.BBC Wales Sport Personality winners BBC Sport https://www.bbc.com/sport/wales/20670643 29 July 2021 Rugby union – Wales win their seventh Grand Slam. Snooker 30 January – Ray Reardon wins the Masters.https://www.eurosport.com/snooker/profile-ray-reardon_sto2189453/story.shtml Profile: Ray Reardon 2 March 2010 Eurosport 16 May 2019 23 April – Ray Reardon wins his fifth World Championship title. Births 14 January - Scott Young, footballer 6 April - James Fox, singer 8 May - Ian Watkins, pop singer 13 May - Mark Delaney, footballer 16 June - Cian Ciaran, musician 25 June - Iestyn Harris, rugby playerIestyn Harris: Rallying his motley crew under the banner of Welsh pride https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/iestyn-harris-rallying-his-motley-crew-under-the-banner-of-welsh-pride-2209714.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/iestyn-harris-rallying-his-motley-crew-under-the-banner-of-welsh-pride-2209714.html 2022-05-01 subscription live The Independent 18 July 2017 10 February 2011 14 July - Geraint Jones, cricketer 9 August - Aled Haydn-Jones, radio producer 1 November - Buffy Williams, politician 7 November - Andrew Davies, cricketer 20 December – Adam Powell, inventor date unknown - Steffan Cravos, musician and language activist Deaths 3 January – Mal Evans, Beatles' former roadie and patron of Badfinger, 40 (shot)Geoffery Giuliano Lennon in America: 1971-1980, Based in Part on the Lost Lennon Diaries https://books.google.com/books?id=IhRtB87K_dIC&pg=PA238 2 July 2001 Cooper Square Press 978-1-4616-3561-1 238 23 January – Sir Tudor Thomas, ophthalmic surgeon, 82Davies John Jenkins Nigel The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales 2008 University of Wales Press Cardiff 978-0-7083-1953-6 26 January – Eric Francis, architect, 88arch 14317 Eric Carwardine Francis 2012-04-24 4 February – Roger Livesey, actor, 69https://www.nytimes.com/1976/02/07/archives/roger-livesey-character-actor-on-stage-and-screen-is-dead.html Roger Livesey, Character Actor On Stage and Screen, Is Dead February 7, 1976 New York Times 30 April 2019 12 February – John Lewis, Marxist philosopher, 87Rajani Palme Dutt The Labour Monthly https://books.google.com/books?id=bsFZAAAAYAAJ 1976 Labour Publishing Company 118 14 February - Tommy Scourfield, dual code rugby player, 66 29 March - Harold Davies, rugby player, 77Peter Jackson Lions of Wales: A Celebration of Welsh Rugby Legends https://books.google.com/books?id=JqQeMae6VroC 1998 Mainstream 978-1-84018-026-8 210 26 March - Duster Bennett, blues musician, 29 (car accident)Nick Talevski The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries https://books.google.com/books?id=beMTAQAAIAAJ 1999 Omnibus 978-0-7119-7548-4 24 30 March - Jackie Mittell, footballer, 70 31 March - Billy Moore, rugby player, 66 18 April – Haydn Davies, politician, 70Who was who https://books.google.com/books?id=HT4OAQAAMAAJ 1971 St. Martin's Press 978-0-312-87746-0 199 28 April – Richard Hughes, novelist, 76Twentieth-century Children's Writers Macmillan Education UK 1978 9781349036486 624 6 June – David Jacobs, athlete, 88 20 June – Sir Goronwy Edwards, historian, 84 The Antiquaries Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=5wEpAAAAYAAJ 1978 H. Milford, Oxford University Press 449 28 June – Sir Stanley Baker, actor, 48Robert Shail Stanley Baker: A Life in Film https://books.google.com/books?id=uZUrAQAAIAAJ 2008 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-2126-3 127 18 July – Jenkin Alban Davies, Wales international rugby captain, 90 22 July – Willie Evans, Welsh international footballer, 63 30 August - David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore, politician, 72 10 October - David Lewis, 1st Baron Brecon, politician, 71 7 November - Glyn Davies, Wales international rugby union player, 49 22 November - Rupert Davies, actor, 60 (cancer)Encyclopedia of World Biography: Supplement https://books.google.com/books?id=AIAUAQAAIAAJ 2001 Gale Research 978-0-7876-2945-8 117 24 November - Ambrose Baker, rugby player, ?79 date unknown Eveline Annie Jenkins, botanical artist, 82/83 Meirion Williams, songwriter See also 1976 in Northern Ireland References Wales Wales Category:1976 in Europe Category:1970s in Wales