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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1966 to
Wales and
its people .
Incumbents
Events
April – Future Welsh Secretary
Peter Hain arrives in the UK from South Africa with his family.
12 May – Local elections take place across the county boroughs and districts, with the
Conservatives
winning a majority on
Cardiff City Council for the first time in years.
[1]
18 June –
Butlin's Barry Island holiday camp opens.
14 July – In the
Carmarthen by-election , caused by the death of
Megan Lloyd George ,
Gwynfor Evans wins
Plaid Cymru 's first Parliamentary seat.
[2]
22 July
8 September – The
Severn Bridge is opened.
[4]
21 October – At
Aberfan , following heavy rain,
a colliery waste tip collapses onto the village's primary school , killing 116 children and 28 adults.
Cledwyn Hughes , Secretary of State for Wales, and his government colleague,
George Thomas arrive on the scene late afternoon, followed, in the evening, by Prime Minister
Harold Wilson .
[5]
22 October –
Lord Robens , chairman of the
National Coal Board , arrives in Aberfan after going ahead with his installation as Chancellor of the University of Surrey, despite news of the disaster.
[6]
26 October – The Welsh Office appoints the
Aberfan Disaster Tribunal , chaired by
Edmund Davies, Baron Edmund-Davies , to investigate the causes of the disaster.
27 October – Almost a week after the Aberfan disaster, writer and broadcaster
Gwyn Thomas makes his famous radio tribute to the children of Aberfan.
[7]
30 October – The
Queen and her consort
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh , arrive in Aberfan to pay their respects. It is reported that the Queen is moved to tears.
[8]
15 December – A concert in aid of the
Aberfan disaster charity is held at London's Royal Albert Hall.
[9]
Arts and literature
Awards
New books
English language
Welsh language
New drama
Music
Film
Broadcasting
Welsh-language television
English-language television
Sport
Births
21 March –
Matthew Maynard , cricketer
[14]
24 March –
Mark Williams
MP , politician
[15]
14 April –
Lloyd Owen , actor
29 April –
Carl Dale , footballer
3 May –
Darren Morgan , snooker player
5 May –
Nicky Piper , light-heavyweight boxer
[16]
8 July –
Guto Harri , broadcaster
21 July –
Sarah Waters , novelist
[17]
28 July –
Andy Legg , footballer
16 August –
Helen Thomas ,
Greenham Common campaigner
1 September –
Elin Jones
AM , politician
[18]
12 September –
Niall Griffiths , English-born novelist
21 October –
Phillip Price , golfer
[19]
10 November –
Simon Richardson , cyclist
Date unknown –
Saul David , historian
[20]
Deaths
20 January –
Gordon Macdonald
MP , politician, 81
[21]
21 January –
William Davies , footballer, 83
27 January –
Ronald Armstrong-Jones , barrister, 66
[22]
18 February –
Thomas Williams, 1st Baron Williams , 73
20 February –
Emrys Evans , classicist and academic, 75
[23]
March –
Wilfred Mitford Davies , artist and publisher, 71
[24]
April –
Charlie Jones , footballer, 66
13 April –
Lionel Edwards , artist, 87
[25]
25 April –
Iorrie Isaacs , Wales international rugby player, 54
26 April –
Bill Everson , Wales international rugby player, 60
11 May –
Thomas Hughes Jones , poet and author, 71
[26]
14 May –
Megan Lloyd George
MP , politician, 64
[27]
1 June –
Peter George , author, 42 (suicide)
23 June –
Melbourne Thomas , rugby player, 70
[28]
9 June –
Elizabeth Watkin-Jones , children's author, 88
[29]
17 July –
Albert Freethy , rugby referee and cricketer, 81
23 August –
Ivor Hughes , speedway rider, 27 (killed in track accident)
[30]
27 August –
Cecil Pritchard , rugby player, 64
[31]
21 September – Sir
Thomas Williams Phillips , civil servant, 83
[32]
24 September –
Arthur Green , footballer, 85
[33]
26 September –
Phil Hopkins , Wales international rugby player, 86
3 December –
Iorwerth Thomas , politician, 71
23 November –
Alvin Langdon Coburn , American-born pictorialist photographer, 84
[34]
date unknown –
Simon Bartholomew Jones , minister and poet
[35]
See also
References
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South Wales Echo . 13 May 1966. p. 1.
^ Dafydd Williams (1990).
The story of Plaid Cymru: the party of Wales . Plaid Cymru. p. 24.
ISBN
978-0-905077-47-5 .
^
BBC Bristol – Severn Bridge opening ceremony . Accessed 3 August 2013
^
Roads in England . H.M. Stationery Office. 1966. p. 6.
^
"Aberfan: The mistake that cost a village its children" . www.bbc.co.uk . Retrieved 12 November 2020 .
^
The Land and Economy of Appalachia: Proceedings from the 1986 Conference on Appalachia, October 30-31, 1986, University of Kentucky . The Center. 1987. p. 73.
^
BBC website . Accessed 28 November 2014
^
"BBC News – In pictures: Aberfan Disaster , Queen's visit" . bbc.co.uk . Retrieved 30 July 2015 .
^ Paul Anderson (14 April 2014).
Mods: The New Religion . Omnibus Press. p. 285.
ISBN
978-0-85712-850-8 .
^
"Winners of the Chair" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . 17 November 2019.
^
"Winners of the Crown" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . 17 November 2019.
^
"Winners of the Prose Medal" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . Retrieved 7 November 2019 .
^
"BBC Wales Sport Personality winners" . BBC Sport . Retrieved 29 July 2021 .
^ Bill Frindall; Carphone Group (2 August 1989).
England test cricketers: the complete record from 1877 . Willow. p. 304.
ISBN
978-0-00-218339-0 .
^ Valerie Passmore (2005).
Dod's Parliamentary Companion: Guide to the General Election, 2005 . Dod's Parliamentary Companion Limited. p. 415.
ISBN
978-0-905702-57-5 .
^
Reference Wales . University of Wales Press. 1994. p. 338.
ISBN
978-0-7083-1234-6 .
^ Kaye Mitchell (12 September 2013).
Sarah Waters: Contemporary Critical Perspectives . A&C Black. p. 13.
ISBN
978-1-4411-9941-6 .
^
"Jones, Elin" . Who's Who . Retrieved 16 October 2019 .
^ Terry Spohn (2005).
2005 PGA Tour Official Fan Guide . Tehabi Sports. pp. 2–254.
ISBN
978-1-933208-01-5 .
^
"Biography" . Saul David . Retrieved 25 February 2020 .
^ "Obituary: Ld. Macdonald Of Gwaenysgor".
The Times . 21 January 1966. p. 14.
^ Noel Botham (25 October 2012).
Margaret - The Last Real Princess . John Blake. p. 183.
ISBN
978-1-78418-722-4 .
^ Thomas Parry.
"Evans, Sir David Emrys (1891-1966), educationist and translator" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 February 2020 .
^ Margaret Mitford Williams.
"Davies, Wilfred Mitford (1895-1966), educationist and translator" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 February 2020 .
^ Ryno Greenwall (1992).
Artists & illustrators of the Anglo-Boer War . Fernwood Press. p. 130.
ISBN
978-0-9583154-6-3 .
^ Evan David Jones.
"Jones, Thomas Hughes (1895-1966), poet, writer and teacher" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 February 2020 .
^ William Richard Philip George.
"Lloyd George (family)" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 October 2019 .
^
Melbourne Thomas player profiles Scrum.com
^ Bedwyr Lewis Jones.
"Watkin-Jones, Elizabeth (1887-1966), author of children's books" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 February 2020 .
^
"Ivor Hughes" . Cradley Heath Speedway . Retrieved 21 February 2020 .
^ Jenkins, John M.; Pierce, Duncan; Auty, Timothy (1991). Who's Who of Welsh International Rugby Players . Wrexham: Bridge Books. pp. 130–131.
ISBN
1-872424-10-4 .
^
"Phillips, Sir Thomas Williams" .
Who Was Who (online edition) .
Oxford University Press . December 2007. Retrieved 2008-09-30 .
^ Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 (Third edition, with revisions ed.). Toton, Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 117.
ISBN
190589161X .
^ Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group (16 May 2006).
Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Photography, Lynne Warren: Photography . Bukupedia. p. 291.
ISBN
978-1-57958-393-4 .
^ Meic Stephens (April 1986).
The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales . Oxford University Press. p.
90 .