1976 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1976 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
[edit]- Secretary of State for Wales – John Morris[1]
- Archbishop of Wales – Gwilym Williams, Bishop of Bangor[2]
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Bryn[3]
Events
[edit]- 9 February - The Prince of Wales (now Charles III) becomes commander of HMS Bronington.[4]
- 17 February - Operation Julie is launched; it eventually results in the break-up of one of the largest LSD manufacturing operations in the world.[5]
- March - The Welsh Regional Office of the European Community opens in Cardiff.[6]
- June–September - 1976 United Kingdom heat wave: A very hot summer brings a major drought with water shortages.
- July - Miners’ leader Dai Francis challenges the Prince of Wales (now Charles III), 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.[7][8]
- 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[9] at Drottningholm Palace after a 30-year relationship.
- date unknown - David Emanuel marries Elizabeth Weiner.[10]
Arts and literature
[edit]- May 27 - Actor Stanley Baker is given a knighthood in the Prime Minister's Resignation Honours, a few months before his death.[11]
- August - Dic Jones loses the National Eisteddfod chair on a technicality.
- October - Mistar Urdd is created by Wynne Melville Jones.[12]
- unknown date - Griff Rhys Jones becomes Vice-President of the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club.[13]
Awards
[edit]- 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
[edit]English language
[edit]- 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
[edit]- John Emyr - Enaid Clwyfus[14]
- Alun Llywelyn-Williams - Gwanwyn yn y Ddinas
- Owain Owain - Y Dydd Olaf
Poetry
[edit]- 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
[edit]- John Gwilym Jones - Gobaith Mawr y Ganrif
Music
[edit]- 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
[edit]Welsh-language films
[edit]- Y Dieithryn, produced by Emlyn Williams
Broadcasting
[edit]- Sir Huw Wheldon is knighted for his services to broadcasting.
Welsh-language television
[edit]- Seren Wib, presented by Emyr Glasnant and Sharon Morgan[15]
Welsh language radio
[edit]- Tros Fy Sbectol
English-language television
[edit]- How Green Was My Father: a Welsh Odyssey for 1976, with Ryan Davies and Max Boyce[16]
Sport
[edit]- Football – The Wales national football team plays in the quarter-finals of UEFA Euro 1976.
- BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Mervyn Davies and the Wales national rugby union team.[17]
- Rugby union – Wales win their seventh Grand Slam.
- Snooker
- 30 January – Ray Reardon wins the Masters.[18]
- 23 April – Ray Reardon wins his fifth World Championship title.[18]
Births
[edit]- 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[19]
- 14 July - Geraint Jones, cricketer
- 9 August - Aled Haydn-Jones, radio producer
- 1 November - Buffy Williams, politician
- 7 November - Andrew Davies, cricketer
- 20 December – Adam Powell, inventor
- date unknown - Steffan Cravos, musician and language activist
Deaths
[edit]- 3 January – Mal Evans, Beatles' former roadie and patron of Badfinger, 40 (shot)[20]
- 23 January – Sir Tudor Thomas, ophthalmic surgeon, 82[21]
- 26 January – Eric Francis, architect, 88[22]
- 4 February – Roger Livesey, actor, 69[23]
- 12 February – John Lewis, Marxist philosopher, 87[24]
- 14 February - Tommy Scourfield, dual code rugby player, 66
- 29 March - Harold Davie, rugby player, 77[25]
- 26 March - Duster Bennett, blues musician, 29 (car accident)[26]
- 30 March - Jackie Mittell, footballer, 70
- 31 March - Billy Moore, rugby player, 66
- 18 April – Haydn Davies, politician, 70[27]
- 28 April – Richard Hughes, novelist, 76[28]
- 6 June – David Jacobs, athlete, 88
- 20 June – Sir Goronwy Edwards, historian, 84 [29]
- 28 June – Sir Stanley Baker, actor, 48[30]
- 18 July – Jenkin Alban Davies, Wales international rugby captain, 90
- 22 July – Willie Evans, Welsh international footballer, 63
- 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)[31]
- 24 November - Ambrose Baker, rugby player, ?79
- date unknown
- Eveline Annie Jenkins, botanical artist, 82/83
- Meirion Williams, songwriter
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Morris of Aberavon, Baron, (John Morris) (born Nov. 1931)". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u28179. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
- ^ David Wilbourne (8 June 2018). "Archbishop Gwilym Owen Williams — "G. O.": His life and opinions by D. T. W. Price". Church Times. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
- ^ Dillwyn Miles (1992). The Secret of the Bards of the Isle of Britain. Gwasg Dinefwr Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-9519926-0-9.
- ^ 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
- ^ Wynne Melville Jones (14 August 2014). Wyn Mel (in Welsh). Y Lolfa. p. 64. ISBN 978-1-78461-029-6.
- ^ M. J. Simpson (29 April 2005). Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams. Justin, Charles & Co. p. 75. ISBN 978-1-932112-35-1.
- ^ National Union Catalog. Rowman and Littlefield. 1973. p. 467.
- ^ Sharon Morgan (2012). Hanes Rhyw Gymraes (in Welsh). Y Lolfa.
- ^ "How Green was my Father". BBC. 27 July 2011. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
- ^ "BBC Wales Sport Personality winners". BBC Sport. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- ^ a b "Profile: Ray Reardon". Eurosport. 2 March 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
- ^ "Iestyn Harris: Rallying his motley crew under the banner of Welsh pride". The Independent. 10 February 2011. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
- ^ Geoffery Giuliano (2 July 2001). Lennon in America: 1971-1980, Based in Part on the Lost Lennon Diaries. Cooper Square Press. p. 238. ISBN 978-1-4616-3561-1.
- ^ Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
- ^ Eric Carwardine Francis at archINFORM. Retrieved 24 April 2012.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Peter Jackson (1998). Lions of Wales: A Celebration of Welsh Rugby Legends. Mainstream. p. 210. ISBN 978-1-84018-026-8.
- ^ Nick Talevski (1999). The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries. Omnibus. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-7119-7548-4.
- ^ Who was who. St. Martin's Press. 1971. p. 199. ISBN 978-0-312-87746-0.
- ^ Twentieth-century Children's Writers. Macmillan Education UK. 1978. p. 624. ISBN 9781349036486.
- ^ 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.