1967 in Wales

none 1967 thumb | right | ‘Faraday’ at the Newport Power Station - 1967 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1967 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Secretary of State for Wales – Cledwyn HughesJones David Lewis Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos s8-HUGH-CLE-1916 22 April 2016 Archbishop of Wales – Edwin Morris, Bishop of MonmouthC. Witton-Davies Morris, (Alfred) Edwin (1894–1971) 31467 Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – E. Gwyndaf Evanshttps://www.peoplescollection.wales/collections/2100696 Barry National Eisteddfod 1968 Peoples Collection Wales 13 July 2024 Events 20 February – The first Royal Mail postbus in Britain runs between Llanidloes and Llangurig.James Mackay The Guinness book of stamps: facts & feats https://books.google.com/books?id=CYmqMMTSpuAC 1988 Guinness Books 978-0-85112-351-6 April – Rhodri Morgan marries fellow Welsh Labour MP Julie Edwards.Rhodri Morgan Rhodri: A Political Life in Wales and Westminster https://books.google.com/books?id=keyVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA5 15 September 2017 University of Wales Press 978-1-78683-148-4 5 13 April – Tri-annual county council elections take place across Wales.The Registrar General's Statistical Review of England and Wales for the Year H.M. Stationery Office 1967 99–100 5 May – The Brynglas Tunnels on the M4 motorway by-passing Newport are opened.New Geographical Digest https://books.google.com/books?id=r5g7AQAAIAAJ 1965 G. Philip 88 8 May – Local elections take place across the county boroughs and districts, with the Labour Party losing its majority on Ebbw Vale Urban Council for the first time in 30 years.More shocks for Labour - 30-year control at Ebbw Vale ends South Wales Echo 9 May 1967 1 27 July – The Welsh Language Act 1967 allows the use of Welsh in legal proceedings and official documents, and repeals the Wales and Berwick Act 1746, which had officially defined Wales as part of England. 7 August – Two men and a boy are drowned in the Dyfi estuary. 25–27 August – The Beatles, along with Mick Jagger, Cilla Black, and Jane Asher, come to Bangor to attend a seminar by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on Transcendental Meditation. Their visit is cut short by the shock news of manager Brian Epstein's death.Walter Everett The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver Through the Anthology https://books.google.com/books?id=eTkHAldi4bEC&pg=PA129 1999 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-512941-0 129– 2 October – The new Passport Office opens in Newport as part of a United Kingdom government effort to move government offices into the regions.Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command https://books.google.com/books?id=iEs6AQAAIAAJ 1981 H.M. Stationery Office 88 25 October - Foot and Mouth Disease breaks out in North Wales and parts of England.Great Britain. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Origin of the 1967-68 Foot-and-mouth Disease Epidemic https://books.google.com/books?id=culUAAAAYAAJ 1968 H.M. Stationery Office November - HM Land Registry opens an office in Swansea.Great Britain. Land Registry Report to the Lord Chancellor on H.M. Land Registry for the Year ... https://books.google.com/books?id=i0csAQAAIAAJ 1966 H.M. Stationery Office 14 18 December – Newtown, Montgomeryshire, is designated as a New Town.Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Parliamentary Debates: Standing committees : House of Commons official report https://books.google.com/books?id=Hn9bVJszYfIC 1985 H.M. Stationery Office The River Severn is re-channelled to prevent the town becoming further damaged by floods. date unknown The Gittins Report on Primary Education in Wales recommends that "every child should be given sufficient opportunity to be reasonably bilingual by the end of the primary stage".R F Dearden Problems in Primary Education (RLE Edu K) https://books.google.com/books?id=1VjcNxLwcGQC&pg=PA128 23 May 2012 Routledge 978-1-136-49257-0 128 Merched y Wawr is founded in the village of Parc near Bala, by language campaigner Zonia Bowen, after the Women's Institute refused to allow the Welsh language to be used.Alan Butt Philip The Welsh Question: Nationalism in Welsh Politics, 1945-1970 https://archive.org/details/welshquestionnat0000phil registration 1975 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-0537-9 The University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology (UWIST) in Cardiff is incorporated by charter;Halsbury's Laws of England https://books.google.com/books?id=BT5HAQAAIAAJ 2001 Butterworths 978-1-4057-0559-2 72 it later becomes part of the University of Wales. The former Royal Navy Propellant Factory, Caerwent, RAF Caerwent weapons storage facility, is transferred to United States administration.https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/96062/ Caerwent, Royal Naval Propellant Factory; Rnpf Caerwent Coflein 13 July 2024 The Clywedog Reservoir is completed.The Salmon and Trout Magazine: The Journal of the Salmon and Trout Association https://books.google.com/books?id=gi8lAQAAMAAJ 1973 The Association 114 Francis Jones is appointed to the newly-formed Prince of Wales ' Investiture Committee. Jones Francis Carmarthenshire studies : essays presented to Major Francis Jones, C.V.O., T.D., D.L., M.A., F.S.A., Wales Herald Extraordinary, to mark his retirement as County Archivist of Carmarthenshire Carmarthenshire County Council Carmarthen 1974 9780950386201 6 Arts and literature The first Welsh pantomime is put on by Theatr Felinfach, based on the life of Twm Siôn Cati. Rhys Davies wins an Edgar Allan Poe Award for his story "The Chosen One", originally published in The New Yorker. The publisher Y Lolfa is established by Robat Gruffudd in Tal-y-bont, Ceredigion.https://news.bbc.co.uk/welsh/hi/newsid_7000000/newsid_7006000/7006049.stm Y Lolfa yn dathlu'r deugain 2007-09-24 BBC News BBC Wales 2013-10-11 Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Bala) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – Emrys Roberts, "Y Gwyddonydd"https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod of Wales 17 November 2019 25 December 2019 13 February 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210213204407/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair dead National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Eluned Phillips, "Corlannau"https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners Winners of the Crown National Eisteddfod of Wales 17 November 2019 25 December 2019 7 November 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191107194429/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners dead National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – withheldhttps://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-prose-medal Winners of the Prose Medal National Eisteddfod of Wales 7 November 2019 7 November 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191107194428/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-prose-medal dead New books English language Alan Garner – The Owl ServiceThe Cool Web: Pattern of Children's Reading Margaret Meek Aidan Warlow Griselda Barton The Bodley Head 0-370-10863-9 20 January 1977 199–200 Leslie Norris – Finding GoldStephens Meic Meic Stephens 9 April 2006 Leslie Norris https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/leslie-norris-6104085.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/leslie-norris-6104085.html 14 June 2022 subscription live The Independent London 3 December 2017 Bertrand Russell – War Crimes in VietnamWar Crimes in Vietnam https://nyupress.org/9780853450580/war-crimes-in-vietnam 12 May 2023 NYU Press en-US Emlyn Williams – Beyond Belief: A Chronicle of Murder and Its DetectionEmlyn Williams Beyond Belief Pan Books 1992 9780330020886 Welsh language Hydwedd Boyer – I'r Ynysoedd Brinley Richards – Cerddi'r Dyffryn Kate Roberts – Tegwch y Bore William Nantlais Williams – O Gopa Bryn Nefo New drama Saunders Lewis – Cymru FyddSaunders Lewis The Plays of Saunders Lewis https://books.google.com/books?id=mMwrAAAAMAAJ 1985 C. Davies 978-0-7154-0651-9 4 Music Hogia'r Wyddfa – Tylluanod (album) Mary Hopkin – Mae Pob Awr Arwel Hughes – Mab y Dyn (cantata) Jeffrey Lewis – Epitaphium – Children of the Sun William Mathias – SinfoniettaMichael Kennedy Joyce Bourne The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music https://archive.org/details/conciseoxforddic00kenn registration 22 April 2004 Oxford University Press, USA 978-0-19-860884-4 462 Toni ac Aloma – Caffi Gaerwen Y Triban – Paid â dodi dadi ar y dôl Y Blew – Maes B Film Richard Burton stars in The Taming of the Shrew opposite his wife Elizabeth Taylor. Carry On up the Khyber is filmed in North Wales. Broadcasting Welsh-language television Disc a Dawn English-language television Conqueror's Road (drama series)Screen International Film and TV Year Book Screen International King Publications 1984 544 The Shepherds of Moel Siabod (documentary)Report of the Broadcasting Council for Wales (Parliamentary Papers, volume 17) H.M. Stationery Office 1967 170 The Prisoner, filmed at Portmeirion The cast and crew of Doctor Who film the serial The Abominable Snowmen at Nant Ffrancon, doubling for Tibet.http://www.doctorwholocations.org.uk/mapper/show/35.html https://web.archive.org/web/20061006184003/http://www.doctorwholocations.org.uk/mapper/show/35.html dead 2006-10-06 Nant Ffrancon Doctor Who Locations 13 July 2024 Sport Boxing – June 15: Howard Winstone is controversially defeated on points by Mexico's Vincente Saldivar at Ninian Park, Cardiff.https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/boxing/boxing-howard-winstone---champ-2204692 Boxing: Howard Winstone - champ at last 24 January 2008 WalesOnline 19 March 2020 Cricket – Glamorgan County Cricket Club moves to a new home at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff.https://www.glamorgancricket.com/sophia-gardens-our-venue Sophia Gardens Glamorgan CCC 19 March 2020 Cross-country – The 1967 International Cross Country Championships are held at Barry. Marshall Ron March 20, 1967 Athletics - Casual Roelants Takes Senior Title at Barry https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bmNAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=f6MMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6151%2C3622678 Glasgow Herald 4 October 3, 2013 Gymnastics – Bobby Williams of Swansea is British champion. Rugby union – Barry John and Gareth Edwards make their international debut. Swimming – Paul Radmilovic is the first Briton to be elected to the American Swimming Hall of Fame. BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Howard WinstoneBBC Wales Sport Personality winners BBC Sport https://www.bbc.com/sport/wales/20670643 29 July 2021 Births 7 February – Richie Burnett, darts player 16 February – Eluned Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Ely, politicianhttps://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/research/art-and-design-research/good-health-wales/baroness-eluned-morgan-am/ Baroness Eluned Morgan AM University of Wales Trinity St David 26 September 2019 18 February – Colin Jackson CBE, athleteRichard Dale Colin Cameron The contenders https://books.google.com/books?id=6pnVTohrsKMC August 1994 Boxtree 978-0-7522-0948-7 75 22 February – Wayne Curtis, footballer 1 March – Steffan Rhodri, screen actor 21 March – Carwyn Jones, politicianhttps://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-22270 Jones, Rt Hon. Carwyn (Howell) Who's Who 2019 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U22270 978-0-19-954088-4 26 September 2019 27 March – Bob Morgan, Olympic diver 5 April – Andy Allen, rugby player 8 April – Arwyn Davies, Welsh actor 10 May – Jon Ronson, journalist and documentary filmmakerhttps://the-talks.com/interview/jon-ronson/ Jon Ronson: "I'm interested in hypocrisy" The Talks Emma Robertson 27 June 2016 26 September 2019 9 July Julie Thomas, lawn bowlerLawn Bowls Athlete Profile: Julie THOMAS - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games https://results.gc2018.com/en/lawn-bowls/athlete-profile-n6028265-julie-thomas.htm results.gc2018.com 29 October 2020 Richard Webster, rugby player 22 July – Rhys Ifans, actor and musicianChase's Calendar of Events 2003 https://books.google.com/books?id=1NnUNBh6jIAC 1 September 2002 McGraw-Hill 978-0-07-139098-9 388 7 September – Steve James, cricketer 13 October – Steve O'Shaughnessy, footballerhttps://airbusfc.com/index_php/steve-o-shaughnessy/ Steve O'Shaughnessy Airbus UK Broughton FC 13 July 2024 27 October – Jason Gummer, footballer 12 November – Grant Nicholas, musician 18 November – Zoë Skoulding, poet and musician 27 November – Geraint Rees, neurologist date unknown Robert Huw Morgan, organist and choral conductor Deaths 7 January Vince Griffiths, rugby player, 65 Sir Frederick Rees, Welsh historian and academic, 83s2-REES-FRE-1883 Rees, Sir James Frederick (1883-1967), Principal of the University College at Cardiff Evan David Jones 26 September 2019 15 January – Sir Cyril Fox, archaeologist, 84s2-FOX0-FRE-1882 Fox, Sir Cyril Fred (1882-1967), Director of the National Museum of Wales, 1926-48 Iorwerth Cyfeiliog Peate yes 10 July 2019 22 January Idris Bell, papyrologist and author, 87s2-BELL-IDR-1879 Bell, Sir Harold Idris (1879-1967), scholar and translator Thomas Parry yes 10 July 2019 Mary Myfanwy Wood, missionary, 84s2-WOOD-MYF-1882 Wood, Mary Myfanwy (1882-1967), missionary in China, 1908-51 Kenneth Emlyn Jones, Ioan Wyn Gruffydd yes 26 September 2019 28 January – Cliff Davies, Wales international rugby player, 47 2 February – Griffith Griffith, Presbyterian leader, 83s2-GRIF-WYN-1883 Griffith, Griffith Wynne (1883–1967), minister (Presb.) and author Roberts Gomer Morgan yes 2008-05-27 14 February – Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby, politician, 70s2-LLOY-GEO-1888 Lloyd George (family) William Richard Philip George yes 10 July 2019 18 February – Gwynno James, Dean of Brecon, 54Very Rev. J. G. James The Times Monday, Feb 20, 1967; pg. 14; Issue 56870; col F 7 March – Percy Morris, trade unionist and politician, 73Great Britain. Ministry of Social Security Ministry of Social Security Annual Report https://books.google.com/books?id=-AotAQAAMAAJ 1965 H.M. Stationery Office 50 11 March Rupert Davies, Welsh-Canadian author, editor, newspaper publisher, and politician, 87 Ivor Rees, Victoria Cross recipient, 73David Harvey Monuments to Courage: 1917-1982 https://books.google.com/books?id=Bls-AQAAIAAJ 1999 K. and K. Patience 41 26 April – W. J. A. Davies, rugby player, 76 5 May – Owen Thomas Jones, geologist, 89 27 June – David Thomas, educationalist, writer and politician, 86s2-THOM-DAV-1880 Thomas, David (1880-1967), educationalist, author and pioneer of the Labour Party in north Wales Mary Auronwy James yes 26 September 2019 29 July – Jack Wetter, Wales international rugby union captain, 79http://www.blackandambers.co.uk/Personnel.aspx?pr=107456 Newport RFC player profiles 13 July 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20110617040321/http://www.blackandambers.co.uk/Personnel.aspx?pr=107456 17 June 2011 dead 30 July – George Littlewood Hirst, Wales international rugby player, 77https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/44416/page/10507/data.pdf List of deceased London Gazette 26 September 1967 14 September 2019 15 September Rhys Gabe, Wales international rugby union captain, 87s2-GABE-THO-1880 GABE, RHYS THOMAS (REES THOMAS GAPE; 1880-1967), rugby player 13 July 2024 Enid Wyn Jones, nurse, 68s2-JONE-WYN-1909 Jones, Enid Wyn (1909-1967), a prominent worker in religious, social and medical fields in Wales and England Emyr Wyn Jones yes 26 September 2019 18 September – William Davies, dual-code rugby player, 76 8 October – Vernon Watkins, poet, 61s2-WATK-PHI-1906 Watkins, Vernon Phillip (1906-1967), poet Roland Glyn Mathias yes 10 July 2019 9 October – Edward Tegla Davies, clergyman and writer, 87s2-DAVI-TEG-1880 Davies, Edward Tegla (1880-1967), minister (Meth.) and writer Islwyn Ffowc Elis Islwyn Ffowc Elis yes 26 September 2019 22 October – William Joseph Rhys, writer, 87s2-RHYS-JOS-1880 Rhys, William Joseph (1880-1967) Mary Auronwy James 4 February 2024 29 October – Bobbie Williams, rugby player, 71? 2 November – Robert John Rowlands ("Meuryn"), poet, 87Meic Stephens The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic registration April 1986 Oxford University Press 536 978-0-19-211586-7 25 November – Tom Parker, Welsh international rugby union captain, 76 11 December – Florrie Evans, revivalist and missionary, 82EVANS, ANNIE FLORENCE ('Florrie') (1884 - 1967), revivalist and missionary s12-EVAN-FLO-1884 yes 8 September 2022 12 December – Tommy Bamford, footballer, 62 30 December – Ronald Lewis, operatic baritone, 51 (cancer)Opera (1968). "Obituaries: Ronald Lewis", Volume 19, p. 243 31 December – Watkin William Price, historian and activist, 94s2-PRIC-WIL-1873 Price, Watkin William (1873-1967), schoolmaster, researcher David Leslie Davies yes 26 September 2019 date unknown Len Apsey, footballer, 57 Colin Jones, artist, 38http://www.colinjones.net/biography.htm Biography Colin Jones 26 September 2019 15 December 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191215161912/http://colinjones.net/biography.htm dead See also 1967 in Northern Ireland References Wales Category:1967 in Europe Category:1960s in Wales