1995 in Wales

None July 2022 July 2022 1995 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1995 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1995 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Secretary of State for Wales – John Redwood (until 26 June);J. Graham Jones The History of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=4p3ZWsc63IsC January 1998 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1491-3 157 David Hunt (Acting);https://members.parliament.uk/member/994/career Lord Hunt of Wirral UK Parliament 31 May 2022 William Hague (from 5 July)http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=people.person.page&personID=4680 Rt Hon William Hague MP – profile 1 July 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080506100701/http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=people.person.page&personID=4680 6 May 2008 Archbishop of Wales – Alwyn Rice Jones, Bishop of St Asaphhttp://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2866732.ece The Right Rev Alwyn Rice Jones The Independent 16 August 2007 Barry Morgan 31 May 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20071001000228/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2866732.ece 1 October 2007 dead Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – John Gwilym Joneshttps://www.aber.ac.uk/en/news/archive/2012/07/title-118801-en.html Former Archdruid honoured July 2012 Aberystwyth University 3 July 2022 Events 3 January – Tower Colliery re-opens under the ownership of the workforce buyout company Goitre Tower Anthracite.Times onlineSeptember 2024 medicmedic 1 February – Richey Edwards of the Manic Street Preachers disappears.Colin Larkin The Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Kollington – Morphine https://books.google.com/books?id=cgwKAQAAMAAJ 2006 MUZE 978-0-19-531373-4 309 16 February – In the Islwyn by-election brought about by the resignation of Neil Kinnock, Don Touhig is elected as Labour MP for the constituency.https://www.independent.co.uk/news/conservatives-trounced-in-poll-1573413.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/conservatives-trounced-in-poll-1573413.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Patricia Wynn Davies 2005-02-17 2011-03-01 Conservatives trounced in poll The Independent April – TBI plc purchases Cardiff-Wales Airport from Glamorgan County Council. 20 July – Swansea-born Michael Heseltine becomes Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, an office last held by Geoffrey Howe. 30 July – Police in North Wales launch a murder inquiry after the body of seven-year-old Sophie Hook (who had gone missing from a nearby house during the night) is found on a beach near Llandudno by a man walking his dog.Michael D. A. Freeman The Moral Status of Children: Essays on the Rights of the Children https://books.google.com/books?id=BOGZgSgcDRYC&pg=PA4 28 August 1997 Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 90-411-0377-5 4 6 August – Howard Hughes, a 30-year-old Colwyn Bay man, is charged with the murder of Sophie Hook. November – Diver Keith Hurley discovers the wreck of the submarine Resurgam (sunk 1880) off Rhyl.Paul Bowers The Garrett Enigma and the Early Submarine Pioneers https://books.google.com/books?id=ohYiAQAAIAAJ January 1999 Airlife 978-1-84037-066-9 118 20 November – The Princess of Wales gives a revealing interview to Martin Bashir for the Panorama current affairs television programme on BBC 1, discussing her personal problems and marriage in candid detail.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/20/newsid_4341000/4341436.stm 1995: Diana admits adultery in TV interview BBC News 2008-01-30 20 November 1995 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307140414/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/20/newsid_4341000/4341436.stm 7 March 2008 live 20 December – The Queen writes to The Prince and Princess of Wales urging them to divorce as soon as possible. Welsh historian Sir Rees Davies is appointed to the Chichele Chair of Medieval History in the University of Oxford. Welsh historian Glanmor Williams is knighted. Arts and literature Roger Rees is nominated for a Tony for Best Actor in a Play for his role in Indiscretions. Michael Ball performs in the Les Misérables tenth anniversary concert. Peter Karrie is voted the favourite Phantom of members of The Phantom of the Opera Appreciation Society for the second year in a row. The Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, is opened by Jimmy Carter. Awards Glyndŵr Award – Kyffin Williams National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Abergele) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – Tudur Dylan JonesBBC – Eisteddfod Chair Winners. Accessed 26 August 2013 National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Aled GwynBBC – Eisteddfod Crown Winners. Accessed 26 August 2013 National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – Angharad Jones for Y Dylluan Wen Wales Book of the Year: English language: Duncan Bush, Masks Welsh language: Aled Islwyn, Unigolion, Unigeddau Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen – Beryl Stafford Williamshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/eisteddfod/2010/safle/canllaw/gwybodaeth/tudalen/eisteddfodau_gorffennol_gwobrgoffa.shtml Enillwyr Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen cy BBC Cymru 24 November 2019 New books Roger Boore – Y Bachgen Gwyllt Robin Llywelyn – Y Dwr Mawr Llwyd R. S. Thomas – No Truce with the Furies Aled Rhys Wiliam – Cywain Film English-language films The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, with Kenneth GriffithJohn Duncan Davies Three Mountains to Freedom Brill 2019 9789004397323 9 Restoration is partly filmed at Caerphilly Castle.Russell Grant The Real Counties of Britain Virgin 1996 9781852274795 172 Welsh-language films BranwenBranwen (1994) https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/133806/Branwen/overview 4 October 2015 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20160310142523/https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/133806/Branwen/overview Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times Sandra Brennan 2016 10 March 2016 Music Robin Huw Bowen – Harp Music of Wales (Cerddoriaeth Telyn Cymru) Carreg Lafar – Ysbryd y Werin Dafydd Iwan – Cân Celt Super Furry Animals – Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyndrobwllantysiliogogogochynygofod (in space) (E.P.) Triskedekaphilia (compilation album) Broadcasting 30 September – 96.4 FM The Wave goes on air for the first time. Welsh-language television A55, starring Iwan "Iwcs" Roberts Rownd a Rownd, a youth-oriented soap opera set and filmed around Menai Bridge, launches on S4C English-language television John Rhys-Davies takes the lead in the new US drama series, Sliders. Somebody's Son (prizewinning documentary made for BBC2 and BBC Wales by Raw Charm). Sport BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Neville SouthallBBC Wales Sport Personality winners BBC Sport https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/20670643 2 August 2021 Rugby Union 4 June – A narrow defeat by Ireland results in Wales being eliminated from the Rugby World Cup competition after only three matches. Births 5 January – Tom John, footballer 13 February – Leona Vaughan, actress 13 June – Anna Morris, cyclistAnna Morris https://teamwales.cymru/athlete/anna-morris/ Team Wales 10 August 2024 10 August 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240810145517/https://teamwales.cymru/athlete/anna-morris/ dead 30 June – Declan John, footballer 4 July – Amy Hill, cyclisthttp://www.britishcycling.org.uk/zuvvi/media/bc_files/gb_team/Amy_Hill_Biog.pdf Amy Hill Bio British Cycling 24 July 2013 10 August 2024 9 October – Jasmine Joyce-Butchers, rugby playerJasmine Joyce https://www.wru.wales/women/jasmine-joyce/ 2021-05-10 Welsh Rugby Union Wales & Regions en-GB 10 May 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210510165027/https://www.wru.wales/women/jasmine-joyce/ dead 12 October – Jordan Howe, Paralympic athletehttp://www.paralympics.org.uk/gb/athletes/jordan-howe Jordan Howe paralympics.org.uk 10 August 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20160709065555/http://paralympics.org.uk/gb/athletes/jordan-howe 9 July 2016 dead 30 November – Seb Morris, racing driver Deaths 28 January – Philip Burton, theatre director and radio producer, 90Harris M. Lentz Obituaries in the Performing Arts https://books.google.com/books?id=3JoHAQAAMAAJ 1995 McFarland & Company 978-0-7864-0253-3 31 2 February - Raymond Bark-Jones, English-born Wales international rugby union player, 83 4 February - David Alexander, singer, 56http://johnmarkcole.blogspot.com/2011/03/david-alexander-wales-other-tom-jones.html A Life Inside & Outside of Politics – Mark Cole: David Alexander – Wales' Other Tom Jones Cole Mark 11 March 2011 A Life Inside & Outside of Politics – Mark Cole 22 August 2018 8 February – Don Devereux, dual-code rugby player, 62 8 February – Rachel Thomas, actress, 89 11 March – Myfanwy Talog, actress, 50Stafford Hildred Tim Ewbank Sir David Jason – A Life of Laughter https://books.google.com/books?id=IY88AAAAQBAJ&pg=PT165 3 September 2012 John Blake Publishing 978-1-78219-072-1 165–166 28 March - Julian Cayo-Evans, political activist, 57https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituaryjulian-cayo-evans-1613536.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituaryjulian-cayo-evans-1613536.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Obituary: Julian Cayo Evans 31 March 1995 Tony Heath The Independent 11 August 2019 10 April – Glyn Jones, poet, author and academic, 90https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-glyn-jones-1615167.html Obituary: Glyn Jones The Independent Meic Stephens 11 April 1995 3 May 2010 12 April – Cyril Sidlow, footballer, 89 21 April – Tessie O'Shea, entertainer, 82https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-tessie-oshea-1616990.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-tessie-oshea-1616990.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Obituary: Tessie O'Shea 25 April 1995 Dennis Gifford The Independent 11 August 2019 21 June – Tristan Jones, sailor, 66 24 June – Len Blyth, Wales international rugby player, 74 25 September – Dave Bowen, footballer, 67 26 September – Lynette Roberts, poet, 86https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-lynette-roberts-1603243.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-lynette-roberts-1603243.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Obituary: Lynette Roberts 28 September 1995 Meic Stephens Meic Stephens The Independent 11 August 2019 5 December – Charles Evans, doctor and mountaineer, 77Robert Charles Evans 1918–1995, obituary by Michael Ward, Geographical Journal, Vol. 162, No. 2 (Jul., 1996), pp. 257–58 See also 1995 in Northern Ireland References Wales Category:1995 in Europe Category:1990s in Wales