1962 in Wales

none 1962 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1962 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1962 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Archbishop of Wales – Edwin Morris, Bishop of Monmouth Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Trefin Events January–April – An outbreak of smallpox spreading from Cardiff infects 45 people and kills 19 in south Wales; 900,000 people in the region are vaccinated against the disease.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-18365385 BBC News 1962 south Wales smallpox outbreak memories recorded BBC 2012-01-13 2012-06-12 12 April – Nine miners are killed and nine injured in an accident at Tower Colliery, Hirwaun, Wales.British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books General Catalogue of Printed Books: Ten-year Supplement, 1956-1965 https://books.google.com/books?id=7jxaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA340 1969 Readex Microprint Corporation 340 15 May – Emlyn Hooson wins the Montgomeryshire by-election brought about by the death of Clement Davies.Vacher, Thomas Brittain Vacher's Parliamentary Companion https://books.google.com/books?id=QL9MAAAAMAAJ 1963 A.S. Kerswill 93 In the run-up to the by-election, the "Elvis Rock" is painted with the graffiti "Elis" by supporters of Plaid Cymru candidate Islwyn Ffowc Elis. 20 July – The world's first regular passenger hovercraft service is introduced between Rhyl and Wallasey.BPI Transportation https://books.google.com/books?id=zP45DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA27 BPI Publishing 978-81-8497-243-6 27 4 August – Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, the Welsh Language Society, is founded.Llafur: Journal of Welsh Labour History https://books.google.com/books?id=ua4gAQAAMAAJ 1987 Llafur 87 September – Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen, the first Welsh-medium secondary school in south Wales, opens its doors.The Economist https://books.google.com/books?id=FqhIAAAAYAAJ 1985 Economist Newspaper Limited 294 19 September – Atlantic College opens its doors for the first time at St Donat's Castle, marking the birth of the pioneering United World College educational movement.http://www.atlanticcollege.org UWC Atlantic College 2015-12-16 26 October – Richard Thomas and Baldwins's new steelworks at Llanwern near Newport, is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.Metallurgia: The British Journal of Metals https://books.google.com/books?id=NxMSAQAAMAAJ 1962 Kennedy Press 57 28 October – Chepstow Railway Bridge rebuilding completed. date unknown Richard Booth opens his first second-hand bookshop at the old fire station in Hay-on-Wye.https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/22/richard-booth-obituary Richard Booth obituary Oliver Balch 2019-08-22 The Guardian London 2020-06-30 Cardiff Zoo opened.Closed collections http://www.zoohistory.co.uk/projects/closed_collections The Bartlett Society 2015-05-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20150404054748/http://www.zoohistory.co.uk/projects/closed_collections 2015-04-04 dead Arts and literature 21 March – Actress Rachel Roberts marries Rex Harrison in Genoa. Gwyn Thomas becomes a full-time writer and produces his first stage play, The Keep. Welsh National Opera launches a training scheme for singers. Dick Francis publishes his first thriller, Dead Cert. Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Llanelli) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – Caradog Prichard, "Llef un yn Llefain"https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod of Wales 7 March 2021 13 February 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210213204407/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair dead National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – D. Emlyn Lewis, Y Cwmwlhttps://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners Winners of the Crown National Eisteddfod of Wales 7 March 2021 7 November 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191107194429/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners dead National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – William Owen, Bu Farw Ezra Bebbhttps://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-prose-medal Winners of the Prose Medal National Eisteddfod of Wales 7 March 2021 7 November 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191107194428/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-prose-medal dead New books Clifford Dyment – The Railway Game Michael Foot – Aneurin Bevan, vol. 1 Menna Gallie – The Small Mines11-GALL-MEN-1919 Gallie, Menna Patricia (1919-1990), writer John P. Jenkins 2016 10 November 2024 Llewelyn Wyn Griffith – The Adventures of Pryderi The Oxford Book of Welsh Verse Norman Thomas – Ask at the Unicorn Raymond Williams – Communications Welsh language John Roberts Evans – Ar Drothwy'r Noshttps://archifau.llyfrgell.cymru/index.php/gohebiaeth-yn-ymwneud-yn-bennaf-ar-gyfrol-ar-drothwyr-nos-1962 File 27. - Gohebiaeth, yn ymwneud yn bennaf â'r gyfrol Ar Drothwy'r Nos (1962) cy National Library of Wales 10 November 2024 William Evans (Wil Ifan) – Colofnau Wil Ifans2-EVAN-WIL-1883 Evans, William ('Wil Ifan'; 1883-1968), minister (Congl.), poet and writer in Welsh and English Gerallt Jones 2001 10 November 2024 Gwyn Thomas – Chwerwder yn y Ffynhonnau Music Dilys Elwyn-Edwards – Caneuon y Tri Aderyn Alun Hoddinott – Folksong Suite William Mathias – PostludeMalcolm Boyd William Mathias University of Wales Press for the Welsh Arts Council 1978 62 Grace Williams – Four Medieval Welsh Poems for alto, harp and harpsichord Film Richard Burton and Donald Houston appear in The Longest Day. Peter Greenaway makes his first film: Death of Sentiment.Peter Greenaway Peter Greenaway: interviews University Press of Mississippi 2000 100 Jack Howells makes the short documentary A Tribute to Dylan Thomas featuring Richard Burton. The film wins an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject in the following year.http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1963 The 35th Academy Awards (1963) Nominees and Winners 16 May 2016 oscars.org Broadcasting Welsh-language radio 13 February – Saunders Lewis gives the Welsh Home Service’s Annual Lecture, entitled Tynged yr Iaith (The Fate of the Language).The Cambridge History of British Theatre Cambridge University Press 2004 257 Television 14 September – The first transmitter, at Preseli, of the Teledu Cymru – Wales (West and North) Television service comes on air. English-language television 17 September – First edition of the Welsh national news programme BBC Wales Today. Sport Football – John Charles returns to Leeds United from several years playing for Italian clubs. Golf – Brian Huggett wins the Dutch Open championship. BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Ivor AllchurchBBC Wales Sport Personality winners https://www.bbc.com/sport/wales/20670643 BBC Sport 29 July 2021 Births 5 January – Geraint Williams, footballer 11 January – Chris Bryant, politicianDod's Parliamentary Companion Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Limited 2007 88 16 January – Bethan Gwanas, Welsh-language writer 25 May - Martin Goldsmith, footballer 27 June – Michael Ball, singer 28 August – David Melding, politicianhttps://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/uk/wales/13029.stm BBC News AMs profile 12 May 1998 BBC News live https://web.archive.org/web/20190821200718/http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/uk/wales/13029.stm 21 August 2019 10 December 2024 15 September – Kevin Allen, actor, comedian and film director 22 July – Arthur Emyr, rugby union player and television presenter and executive 22 August – Iolo Williams, naturalist and TV presenterhttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/people/iolo-williams-guide-interview Who is Iolo Williams? 24 May 2024 Megan Shersby BBC Discover Wildlife 10 November 2024 5 September – Peter Wingfield, actor 15 October – Mark Ring, rugby union player 24 October – Jonathan Davies, rugby union and league player 11 November - Chris Sander, footballer 31 December – Chris Hallam, wheelchair athlete (died 2013)https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/aug/21/chris-hallam Chris Hallam obituary 21 August 2013 14 September 2013 The Guardian Tanni Grey-Thompson date unknown Fiona Bennett, composer Sioned Wiliam, broadcaster, writer and producer Deaths 18 January – Iolo Aneurin Williams, journalist, author and politician, 71s2-WILL-ANE-1890 Williams, Iolo Aneurin (1890-1962), journalist, author and art historian Donald Moore 30 June 2019 26 January – George Jeffreys, founder of the Elim Pentecostal Church,"Come to Elim" – Healing and Revival 72 11 February – John Edward Daniel, theologian, chairman of Plaid Cymru, 59 (road accident)s2-DANI-EDW-1902 Daniel, John Edward (1902–1962), college lecturer and inspector of schools Jones Robert Tudur 2008-06-04 14 February – Ezer Griffiths, physicist, 73 Darwin C. G. Charles Galton Darwin 10.1098/rsbm.1962.0004 Ezer Griffiths 1888-1962 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 8 41–48 1962 free 27 February – Albert Rhys Williams, Welsh-American journalist, labour organiser, and publicist, 78 23 March – Clement Davies, politician, 80s2-DAVI-EDW-1884 Davies, Clement Edward (1884-1962), politician Evan David Jones 2001 10 December 2024 April – Edgar Morgan, rugby union player, 80 25 April – Herbie Baxter, Glamorgan cricketer, 79 30 April – Charles Williams, Anglican priest and academic, 55The Times 19 3 May 1962 The Rev. C. S. C. Williams – Chaplain of Merton 11 May – Eliot Crawshay-Williams, politician and author, 82Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died https://books.google.com/books?id=cWkwAQAAMAAJ 2002 A. & C. Black 978-0-7136-6125-5 190 16 June – Edgar Rees Jones, barrister and politician, 83https://books.google.com/books?id=izWk161vc9sC&dq=Edgar+Rees+Jones&pg=PA75 Tanner, Duncan Debating nationhood and governance in Britain, 1885–1945: perspectives from the 'four nations' Manchester University Press 75 2006 0-7190-7166-6 24 June – Thomas Richards, historian, 84s2-RICH-THO-1878 Richards, Thomas (1878-1962), librarian and historian Gwilym Beynon Owen 30 June 2019 3 August - Edgar Phillips, poet and Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod, 72s2-PHIL-EDG-1889 Phillips, Edgar ('Trefîn '; 1889-1962), tailor, school-teacher, poet, and Archdruid of Wales, 1960-62 Evan David Jones 2001 10 December 2024 23 August - Robert Bye, VC recipient, 72 23 September - Margaret Jane Gordon (Lady Gordon), singer, 82gordon-margaret-jane-6431 Gordon, Margaret Jane (1880–1962) Martha Rutledge 9 1983 30 June 2019 5 November (in London) – Percy Cudlipp, journalist, 56s2-CUDL-PER-1905 Cudlipp, Percy (1905-1962), journalist David Glanville Rosser 30 June 2019 30 November – Lewis Pugh Evans, Victoria Cross recipient, 81s7-EVAN-PUG-1881 Evans, Lewis Pugh (1881-1962), soldier and public figure, Brigadier General, VC, CB, CMG, DSO Christopher Evans 30 June 2019 15 December – Charles Rhys, 8th Baron Dynevor, politician, 63s2-RHYS-FIT-1873 Rhys, Walter Fitzuryan 7th. Baron Dynevor (1873-1956), nobleman and politician Christopher Dignam 30 June 2019 17 December – Lonza Bowdler, Wales international rugby union player, 61 21 December – Gary Hocking, motorcycle road racer, 25 (racing accident) See also 1962 in Northern Ireland References Wales Category:1962 in Europe Category:1960s in Wales