1976 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1976 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – Charles
- Princess of Wales – vacant
- Secretary of State for Wales – John Morris
- Archbishop of Wales – Gwilym Williams, Bishop of Bangor
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – R. Bryn Williams
Events
- 9 February - The Prince of Wales becomes commander of HMS Bronington.[1]
- 17 February - Operation Julie is launched; it eventually results in the break-up of one of the largest LSD manufacturing operations in the world.[2]
- March - The Welsh Regional Office of the European Community opens in Cardiff.[3]
- June–September - 1976 United Kingdom heat wave: A very hot summer brings a major drought with water shortages.
- July - Miners’ leader Dai Francis challenges Charles, Prince of Wales, 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.[4][5]
- 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 Sweden[6] at Drottningholm Palace after a 30-year relationship.
- date unknown - David Emanuel marries Elizabeth Weiner.[7]
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.[8]
- August - Dic Jones loses the National Eisteddfod chair on a technicality.
- Griff Rhys Jones becomes Vice-President of the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club.
- Mistar Urdd is created by Wynne Melville Jones.
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 Clwyfus[9]
- Alan Llwyd - Edrych Trwy Wydrau Lledrith
- 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
Welsh language radio
- Tros Fy Sbectol
English-language television
- How Green Was My Father, with Ryan Davies
Sport
- Football – The Wales national football team plays in the quarter-finals of UEFA Euro 1976.
- Rugby union – Wales win their seventh Grand Slam.
- Snooker
- 30 January – Ray Reardon wins the Masters.[10]
- 23 April – Ray Reardon wins his fifth World Championship title.[10]
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 player
- 14 July - Geraint Jones, cricketer
- 9 August - Aled Haydn-Jones, radio producer
- 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
- 23 January - Sir Tudor Thomas, ophthalmic surgeon, 82[11]
- 4 February - Roger Livesey, actor, 69[12]
- 12 February - John Lewis, Marxist philosopher, 87[13]
- 14 February - Tommy Scourfield, dual code rugby player, 66
- 26 March - Duster Bennett, blues musician, 29 (car accident)
- 30 March - Jackie Mittell, footballer, 70
- 31 March - Billy Moore, rugby player, 66
- 28 April – Richard Hughes, novelist, 76
- 6 June - David Jacobs, athlete, 88
- 20 June - Sir Goronwy Edwards, historian, 84 [14]
- 28 June - Sir Stanley Baker, actor, 48[15]
- 18 July - Jenkin Alban Davies, Wales international rugby captain, 90
- 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)[16]
- 24 November - Ambrose Baker, rugby player, ?79
- date unknown - Meirion Williams, songwriter
See also
References
- ^ Paul Brown (15 March 2010). Historic Ships: The Survivors. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-4456-2006-0.
- ^ Andy Roberts (30 September 2008). Albion Dreaming: A popular history of LSD in Britain (Revised Edition with a new foreword by Dr. Sue Blackmore). Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. p. 218. ISBN 978-981-4328-97-5.
- ^ Charlotte Aull Davies (1989). Welsh Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: The Ethnic Option and the Modern State. Praeger. ISBN 978-0-275-93116-2.
- ^ North Wales Weekly News, 30 September 1976.
- ^ Nathan Bevan (22 June 2015). "Inside the hotel where five people died in one of Wales' worst ever mass murders". WalesOnline. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
- ^ The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's who. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1992. ISBN 978-0-611-00817-6.
- ^ Richard Harrison Martin (1995). Contemporary Fashion. St. James Press. ISBN 978-1-55862-173-2.
- ^ Ellen Baker, 'My Husband, My Love', Woman's Own Magazine, December 1976 accessed 26 May 2012
- ^ National Union Catalog. Roman and Littlefield. 1973. p. 467.
- ^ a b "Profile: Ray Reardon". Eurosport. 2 March 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
- ^ Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
- ^ "Roger Livesey, Character Actor On Stage and Screen, Is Dead". New York Times. February 7, 1976. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
- ^ Rajani Palme Dutt (1976). The Labour Monthly. Labour Publishing Company. p. 118.
- ^ The Antiquaries Journal. H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 1978. p. 449.
- ^ Robert Shail (2008). Stanley Baker: A Life in Film. University of Wales Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-7083-2126-3.
- ^ Encyclopedia of World Biography: Supplement. Gale Research. 2001. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-7876-2945-8.