1984 in Wales

none 1984 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1984 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1984 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Secretary of State for Wales – Nicholas Edwardshttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/19/lord-crickhowell-obituary Lord Crickhowell obituary 19 March 2018 The Guardian Stephen Bates 19 March 2020 Archbishop of Wales – Derrick Childs, Bishop of Monmouthhttps://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/10747840.bishop-hat-trick-at-newport-cathedral/ Bishop hat-trick at Newport Cathedral 18 October 2013 South Wales Argus 23 January 2021 Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales Jâms Nicholas (outgoing)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/james-nicholas-poet-teacher-and-archdruid-of-wales-8887488.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/james-nicholas-poet-teacher-and-archdruid-of-wales-8887488.html 2022-05-01 subscription live James Nicholas: Poet, teacher and Archdruid of Wales 17 October 2013 Meic Stephens Meic Stephens The Independent 31 January 2019 Elerydd (incoming)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/wj-gruffydd-writer-who-helped-keep-alive-the-welsh-tradition-of-lsquocountry-poetsrsquo-2316933.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/wj-gruffydd-writer-who-helped-keep-alive-the-welsh-tradition-of-lsquocountry-poetsrsquo-2316933.html 2022-05-01 subscription live WJ Gruffydd The Independent 20 July 2011 21 November 2019 Events 2 March – Carmarthen MP Dr Roger Thomas announces his resignation, having been prosecuted for importuning.The Spectator https://books.google.com/books?id=ZhVRAAAAYAAJ July 1984 F.C. Westley 7 Portrait of the week 12 March – The miners' strike begins, with a solid turn out from all NUM mines in Wales.https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/features/mar04.shtml Miners' Strike 1984-1985 Archives Hub 31 January 2019 31 March - The Guildford Crescent Baths close in Cardiff after 122 years, despite a campaign to keep them open.Thomas Deacon https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/save-guildford-crescent-cardiff-1980s-15725890 How campaigners first fought to save Cardiff's Guildford Crescent in the 1980s Wales Online 28 January 2019 26 May 2019 3 May – At the Cynon Valley by-election brought about by the death of MP Ioan Lyonel Evans, Ann Clwyd retains the seat for Labour with an increased majority.Dod's Parliamentary Communications Bedford, Michael J. Dod's Guide to the General Election https://books.google.com/books?id=Bv_vAAAAMAAJ 1992 Dod's Parliamentary Companion 57 19 July – The Lleyn Peninsula earthquake, which strikes the Llŷn Peninsula at 06:56 UTC (07:56 BST), measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale, is the largest known onshore earthquake to occur in the UK since instrumental measurements began.http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/education/faqs/faq9.html BGS FAQ What are the largest two instrumental, onshore earthquakes? BGS dead https://web.archive.org/web/20071009144245/http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/education/faqs/faq9.html 2007-10-09 4 October – Dafydd Wigley resigns as leader of Plaid Cymru for domestic reasons.Keesing's Contemporary Archives https://books.google.com/books?id=GS0MAQAAMAAJ 1986 Keesing's Limited xii 30 November – Taxi driver David Wilkie is killed when a concrete block is dropped onto his car as he drives a strikebreaker to work on the M4 motorway. Dean Hancock and Russell Shankland of Rhymney are later convicted of murder.Winterton, Jonathan Winterton, Ruth Coal, Crisis and Conflict: The 1984-85 Miners' Strike in Yorkshire https://books.google.com/books?id=H-JRAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA164 1989 Manchester University Press 978-0-7190-2830-4 164 3 December – First McDonald's hamburger fast food restaurant in Wales opens in Cardiff. date unknown Sam Edwards becomes Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge.http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/history/cavprof.php The Cavendish Professorship of Physics University of Cambridge 30 November 2013 3 July 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130703172354/http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/history/cavprof.php dead Clive Sinclair's C5 electric vehicle is manufactured at the Hoover works in Merthyr Tydfil.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-28219291 Sinclair C5 built in Merthyr in 1984 'was ahead of its time' Neil Prior 13 July 2014 BBC News 19 March 2020 Border Breweries (Wrexham) ceases to brew in Wales. Creation of Cadw: Welsh Historic Monuments Executive Agency.Mike Taylor World Travel Atlas https://books.google.com/books?id=KaN6POOzB4sC 1995 Columbus Travel Publishing 978-0-946393-48-0 67 Arts and literature Awards Griff Rhys Jones wins the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Comedy Performance for his role in Charley's Aunt.Plays https://books.google.com/books?id=-WgcAQAAIAAJ 1984 Ocean Publications 4 National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Lampeter) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – Aled Rhys Wiliamhttps://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod of Wales 17 November 2019 21 November 2019 13 February 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210213204407/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair dead National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – John Roderick Reeshttps://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners Winners of the Crown National Eisteddfod of Wales 17 November 2019 21 November 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 – John Idris Owenhttps://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 Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen – Richard Cyril Hughes, Castell Cyfaddawd New books English language Duncan Bush – Aquarium Hywel Francis – Miners Against Fascism: Wales and the Spanish Civil War Sian James – Dragons and Roses Mike Jenkins – Empire of SmokeMatthew Jarvis Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry: Writing Wales in English https://books.google.com/books?id=lo0fAQAAIAAJ 2008 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-2152-2 170 Robert Minhinnick – Life Sentences Leslie Thomas – In My Wildest DreamsLeslie Thomas The Adventures of Goodnight and Loving https://books.google.com/books?id=zcTMS_NyxCQC 1987 Penguin Books 978-0-14-008672-0 1 Welsh language Gwynn ap Gwilym – Gwales Geraint H. Jenkins – Hanes Cymru yn y Cyfnod Modern Cynnar: 1530–1760 Alun Jones – Oed Rhyw Addewid Gerwyn Williams – Colli cyswllt Music Ar Log IV The Alarm – Declaration (debut studio album) Icons of Filth – Onward Christian Soldiers Shakin' Stevens records "Teardrops" with Hank Marvin on guitar. Phil Campbell joins Motörhead. First Brecon Jazz Festival staged. Film Ray Milland makes his last film appearance in The Sea Serpent. Sian Phillips stars in Dune. Kevin Allen makes his big screen debut in The Man Who Shot Christmas. Welsh-language films None Broadcasting Gareth Gwenlan becomes Head of Comedy at the BBC. Welsh-language television English-language television The District Nurse starring Nerys HughesMichael Grade British television: an illustrated guide Oxford University Press 1996 9780198159278 292 Sport Football – Ian Rush becomes the first Welshman to win the European Golden Boot award. BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Ian RushBBC Wales Sport Personality winners https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/20670643 BBC Sport 2 August 2021 Horse racing – Neil Doughty wins the Grand National on Hallo Dandy. Births 27 February – Rhys Williams, athlete 9 March – Owain Wyn Evans, broadcast presenter 11 March – Tom James, Olympic gold medal-winning rower 22 June – Arron Davies, footballer 23 June – Duffy, singer 31 July – Craig Stiens, footballer 14 August – Rob Davies, table tennis player 15 September – Prince Harry, son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (Charles and Diana)Princess Di gives birth to boy https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=V19GAAAAIBAJ&pg=1677,1656508&dq=princess+diana&hl=en 31 May 2013 The Evening News 16 September 1984 Associated Press London 20 September – Byron Anthony, footballer 15 October – Owain Tudur Jones, footballer 24 November – Matthew Mason, cricketer date unknown – Gwawr Edwards, soprano Deaths 4 January – Enoch Jenkins, sports shooter, 91https://www.olympic.org/enoch-jenkins-1 Enoch Jenkins IOC 23 January 2021 11 January – Gwyn Thomas, rugby player, 91 14 January – Ivan Lloyd-Phillips, colonial administrator, 73 26 January – Nathan Rocyn-Jones, doctor, international rugby player and President of the WRU, 81 10 February – Ioan Evans, politician, 56s8-EVAN-LYO-1927 Evans, Ioan Lyonel (1927-1984), Labour politician John Graham Jones 23 January 2021 11 April – John Lloyd Thomas, clergyman and teacher, 76Rev J. R. Lloyd Thomas. The Times (London, England), Thursday, 19 April 1984; p. 14; Issue 61810 15 April – Tommy Cooper, comedian, 63 (heart attack on stage)Hugh Massingberd The Spectator https://books.google.com/books?id=AH8c8xI9uwMC 2006 F.C. Westley 72 21 April – Wilf Hughes, cricketer, 73http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/14291.html Player profile: Wilf Hughes ESPNcricinfo 23 January 2021 8 May – David Williams, geologist, 85Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died https://books.google.com/books?id=5YkUAQAAIAAJ 1981 A. & C. Black 978-0-7136-3336-8 815 20 May – Meredith Thomas, flying ace, 91http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Thomas_M.htm Air Vice-Marshal Meredith Thomas M. B. Barrass Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation 2 April 2012 13 June – David Evans, microbiologist, 74 Downie A. W. Allan Watt Downie Smith C. E. G. Tobin J. O. . David Gwynne Evans. 6 September 1909-13 June 1984 10.1098/rsbm.1985.0007 free Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 31 172–196 1985 769924 18 June – Idris Foster, academic, 72 22 June – Dill Jones, jazz pianist, 60Johnson Publishing Company Jet https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_h64DAAAAMBAJ 30 May 2012 10 September 1984 Johnson Publishing Company 18– 0021-5996 29 June – Seiriol Evans, clergyman and writer, 89The Antiquaries Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=siVnAAAAMAAJ 1985 Oxford University Press 590 6 July – Denys Val Baker, British writer and promoter of Celtic culture, 66 30 July – Peter Jones, surgeon, 67England Royal College of Surgeons of Jones, Peter Henry - Biographical entry Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online 26 May 2015 https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E007372b.htm 29 December 2017 5 August – Richard Burton, actor, 58 (brain haemorrhage)J. Randy Taraborrelli Elizabeth: The Biography of Elizabeth Taylor https://books.google.com/books?id=NtglCgncA3IC&pg=PA507 25 March 2011 Pan Macmillan 978-1-4472-0226-4 507 17 August – Mostyn Thomas, operatic baritone, 88The Record Collector J. F. E. Dennis 1987 245 27 August – Amabel Williams-Ellis, writer, 90Roland Turner The Annual Obituary https://books.google.com/books?id=iUsYAAAAIAAJ 1985 St. Martin's 456 9 September – Margaret Phillips, actress, 61"Margaret Phillips Dies at 61; Veteran Broadway Actress" New York Times (11 September 1984). 23 September – Daniel Granville West, politician, 80s6-WEST-GRA-1904 West, Daniel Granville, Baron Granville-West of Pontypool (1904-1984), Labour politician John Graham Jones yes 15 February 2021 12 October – Sir Anthony Berry, politician and son of Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley, 59 (killed in Brighton hotel bombing)http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/whereilive/northwest/enfield/4677815.Brighton_bombing__25th_anniversary_of_Sir_Anthony_Berry_s_death_remembered/ Brighton bombing: 25th anniversary of Sir Anthony Berry's death remembered Thisislocallondon Hannah Crown 12 October 2009 14 October 2009 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110604035719/http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/whereilive/northwest/enfield/4677815.Brighton_bombing__25th_anniversary_of_Sir_Anthony_Berry_s_death_remembered/ 4 June 2011 26 October – Seaborne Davies, lawyer and politician, 80Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died https://books.google.com/books?id=5YkUAQAAIAAJ 1981 A. & C. Black 978-0-7136-3336-8 188 18 November – Thomas Jones, Baron Maelor, politician, 86s6-JONE-WIL-1898 Jones, Thomas William ('Tom'), Baron Maelor of Rhos (1898-1984), Labour politician John Graham Jones yes 15 February 2021 11 December (in Hendon) – Will Paynter, miners' leader, 81Ann Evory Hal May Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers https://archive.org/details/contemporaryauth115halm registration October 1985 Gale 978-0-8103-1915-8 350 date unknown – Arthur Fear, operatic bass-baritone See also 1984 in Northern Ireland References Wales Wales Category:1980s in Wales Category:1984 in Europe