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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1990 to
Wales and
its people.
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26 February - The sea wall at
Towyn is breached, resulting in flood damage to 2,800 homes, and the evacuation of a further 2,000.
[6]
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10 June - Death of John Evans, Britain's oldest man whose age (112 years and 295 days) could be authenticated.
[7]
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2 August - Highest ever temperature recorded in Wales until 2022, 35.2 °C (95.4 °F) at
Hawarden.
[8]
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27 September -
Brymbo Steelworks last tapped.
[9]
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1 November - Veteran Conservative politician Sir
Geoffrey Howe resigns from the government.
- December - Privatisation of the former South Wales Electricity Board (SWEB) and Merseyside and North Wales Electricity Board (MANWEB).
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21 December - Last underground shift worked at
Mardy Colliery.
[10]
- date unknown - Following a referendum, the Vaynor Community Council in
Merthyr Tydfil is abolished, the first time such an action has taken place.
- Commercial sponsorship of the
National Eisteddfod of Wales exceeds £1 million for the first time ever.
- Griffith R. Williams of Llithfaen, Gwynedd, publishes his autobiography, Cofio canrif, making him the world's oldest author at 102.
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Geraint Talfan Davies becomes Controller of BBC Wales.
[11]
Welsh-language television
English-language television
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10 March -
Luke Rowe, cyclist
[23]
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14 March –
Joe Allen, footballer
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1 April –
Joe Partington, footballer
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17 April –
Jonathan Brown, footballer
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19 August –
Laura Deas, skeleton racer
[24]
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17 September –
Jazmin Carlin, swimmer
[25]
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16 October -
Natalie Powell, judoka
[26]
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23 October -
Sian Williams, rugby player
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14 November –
Casey Thomas, footballer
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22 November -
Steffan Jones, rugby player
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26 December –
Aaron Ramsey, footballer
[27]
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4 January –
Alwyn Sheppard Fidler, architect, 80
[28]
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20 January –
Trevor Every, cricketer, 80
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2 February –
Joe Erskine, boxer, 56
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12 March –
Alf Sherwood, footballer, 66
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13 March –
Llewellyn Heycock, Baron Heycock, politician, 84
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25 March –
David Evans, cricketer and umpire, 56
[29]
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2 April –
Peter Jones, radio commentator, 60
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4 May –
John Ormond, poet and film-maker, 67
[30]
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9 June –
Angus McBean, photographer, 86
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10 June – John Evans, world's oldest man at the time, 112
[31]
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17 June –
Menna Gallie, writer
[32]
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24 June –
Sean Hughes, politician of Welsh parentage, 44 (cancer)
[33]
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7 July –
Idwal Davies, rugby player, 74
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6 September –
Jack Howells, film-maker, 77
[34]
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29 October –
Emrys Roberts, politician, 80
[35]
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1 November –
Jack Petersen, former British heavyweight boxing champion, 79
[36]
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8 November –
Ned Jenkins, Wales international rugby player, 86
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13 November –
Richard Lewis, operatic tenor, 76
[37]
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22 November –
Cliff Jones, Wales international rugby captain, 76
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23 November –
Roald Dahl, Cardiff-born children's writer, 74
[38]
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27 November –
Cliff Jones, rugby player, 76
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5 December –
Eric Whitman, cricketer, 81
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23 December –
Gwilym Williams, former Archbishop of Wales, 77
[39]
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24 December
- date unknown –
Cliff Birch, footballer
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^ Daniel G. Williams (15 April 2015).
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ISBN
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^ Alfred Owen Hughes Jarman; Gwilym Rees Hughes; Dafydd Johnston (1998).
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ISBN
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"BBC Wales Sport Personality winners". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
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"Luke Rowe". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
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"Laura Deas won Winter Olympic Bronze in PyeongChang in February 2018". BBSA. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
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"Jazz Carlin". IOC. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
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^ "Obituaries".
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^ M. Wynn Thomas (1997).
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"John Evans, 112; Guinness Book Listed Him as World's Oldest Man". Los Angeles Times. June 11, 1990. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
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^ John P. Jenkins.
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^ Sean Hughes obituary, The Times, 26 June 1990.
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^ John Graham Jones (2008).
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^ Mel Williams.
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^ Colin Matthew; Henry Colin Gray Matthew (1999).
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^ Meic Stephens (2007).
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ISBN
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