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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1929 to
Wales and
its people .
6 January - The abbey on
Caldey Island is handed over by the Benedictine order to its new owners, Belgian
Cistercians .
[3]
February - 700 people are involved in a riot at
Cwmfelinfach , when
strikebreakers are used during an industrial dispute at the
Nine Mile Point Colliery .
[4]
13 March - Former
ironclad warship
HMS Warrior (1860) is towed to
Pembroke Dock to finish her service with the
Royal Navy as an oil fuelling
hulk .
[5]
24–
26 April - The
Royal Air Force 's Squadron Leader
Arthur G. Jones-Williams and Flight Lieutenant Norman H. Jenkins make the first non-stop flight from Britain to
India .
[6]
30 May - In the
United Kingdom general election :
9 July - After a collision with another vessel,
HMS L12 , the Royal Navy
submarine
H47 sinks off the
Pembrokeshire coast, killing 21 crewmen.
[8]
10 July - Nine miners are killed in a
mining accident at Milfraen,
Blaenavon .
11 November - 8.3 inches (210 mm) of rain falls within a single day at
Lluest-wen Reservoir , a record for a place in Wales.
[9] Below in the
Rhondda this month, 400 people are made homeless by flooding.
25 November - Cargo steamer Molesey is wrecked on
Skomer Island with the loss of 7 lives;
[10]
British Movietone News shoots the first-ever sound footage of such an event.
28 November - Seven miners are killed in an accident at Wernbwll Colliery,
Penclawdd .
[11]
date unknown
The
University of Wales begins awarding teacher training certificates at colleges of education in Wales.
[12]
The number of motor vehicles in Wales exceeds 100,000 for the first time.
Welsh-language radio begins to be broadcast from the BBC's
Daventry transmitter.
[20]
2 January -
John Lansdown , computer graphics pioneer (died
1999 )
[21]
28 January -
Clem Thomas , Wales and British Lions international rugby player (died
1996 )
[22]
14 February -
Wyn Morris , conductor (died
2010 )
[23]
20 March -
Herbert Wilson , physicist and biophysicist (died
2008 )
25 April -
Malcolm Thomas , Wales international rugby union captain (died
2012 )
20 May -
Bobi Jones , author (died
2017 )
11 August -
Alun Hoddinott , composer (died
2008 )
[24]
2 September -
Victor Spinetti , actor (died
2012 )
[25]
October -
Robyn Léwis , politician and archdruid (died
2019 )
16 October -
Ivor Allchurch , Wales international footballer (died
1997 )
[26]
20 October -
Colin Jeavons , actor
[27]
27 October -
Alun Richards , novelist (died
2003 )
[28]
2 November -
Carwyn James , rugby coach (died
1983 )
[29]
7 November -
Urien Wiliam , dramatist (died
2006 )
[30]
4 December -
Ednyfed Hudson Davies , politician (died
2018 )
[31]
30 December -
Charles Lynn Davies , Wales international rugby player
date unknown
2 January -
David James , Wales international rugby player, 62
15 January -
William Boyd Dawkins , geologist and historian, 91
[32]
20 February -
Henry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare , 77
[33]
16 April - Sir
John Morris-Jones , poet and grammarian, 64
[34]
29 April -
Violet Herbert, Countess of Powis , 63
[35]
30 April -
Cliff Bowen , Wales international rugby player and county cricketer, 54
[36]
13 May -
David Thomas (Afan) , composer, 47
[37]
15 May -
Grace Rhys , writer, wife of
Ernest Rhys , 64
[38]
30 May -
Owen Davies , Baptist minister and writer, 68/9
[39]
2 June -
Fred Andrews , Wales international rugby player, 64
15 June -
Llewellyn Atherley-Jones , politician, 78/79
[40]
23 July -
John Hinds , businessman and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire, 65
[41]
29 August -
Viv Huzzey , Wales international rugby union player, 53
6 September -
Richard Ellis , bibliographer and librarian, 62
[42]
19 October -
John Evan Davies , Calvinistic Methodist minister and writer, 79
[43]
20 November -
David Williams , archdeacon of Cardigan, 88
[44]
7 December -
Jenkin Jones , trade union leader, 70
[45]
17 December -
Arthur G. Jones-Williams , aviation pioneer, 31 (air crash)
[46]
21 December -
James Williams , hockey player, 51
date unknown -
John Evan Davies , minister and writer, 78/9
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^
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^
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^
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^
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^
"Winners of the Chair" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . 17 November 2019.
^
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ISBN
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^ Glyn Jones; Tony Brown (1 December 2001).
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ISBN
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ISBN
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^
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^ Peter Noble (1974).
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^
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^
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^
F. J. North .
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Thomas Parry .
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^
Humphreys, Edward Morgan .
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Davies, Sir William Llewelyn .
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^
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[1] Retrieved 27 February 2010.