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1976 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1976 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

  • Secretary of State for Wales – John Morris{{Cite web|title=Morris of Aberavon, Baron, (John Morris) (born Nov. 1931)|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-28179|access-date=2021-05-05|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|year=2007|language=en|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u28179|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}
  • Archbishop of Wales – Gwilym Williams, Bishop of Bangor{{cite web|url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2018/8-june/books-arts/book-reviews/welsh-golden-age-that-never-came|title=Archbishop Gwilym Owen Williams — "G. O.": His life and opinions by D. T. W. Price |author=David Wilbourne|date=8 June 2018|website=Church Times|access-date=6 May 2022}}
  • Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Bryn{{cite book|author=Dillwyn Miles|title=The Secret of the Bards of the Isle of Britain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DJZiAAAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Gwasg Dinefwr Press|isbn=978-0-9519926-0-9|page=193}}

Events

  • 9 February - The Prince of Wales (now Charles III) becomes commander of {{HMS|Bronington}}.{{cite book|author=Paul Brown|title=Historic Ships: The Survivors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y06oAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT155|date=15 March 2010|publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited|isbn=978-1-4456-2006-0|pages=155}}
  • 17 February - Operation Julie is launched; it eventually results in the break-up of one of the largest LSD manufacturing operations in the world.{{cite book|author=Andy Roberts|title=Albion Dreaming: A popular history of LSD in Britain (Revised Edition with a new foreword by Dr. Sue Blackmore)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2caIAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA218|date=30 September 2008|publisher=Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd|isbn=978-981-4328-97-5|pages=218}}
  • March - The Welsh Regional Office of the European Community opens in Cardiff.{{cite book|author=Charlotte Aull Davies|title=Welsh Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: The Ethnic Option and the Modern State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tHlnAAAAMAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Praeger|isbn=978-0-275-93116-2}}
  • 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.North Wales Weekly News, 30 September 1976.{{cite web|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/eerie-look-inside-scene-one-9488907|title=Inside the hotel where five people died in one of Wales' worst ever mass murders|website=WalesOnline|date=22 June 2015|author=Nathan Bevan|access-date=31 December 2018}}
  • 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{{cite book|title=The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8XWmAAAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Burke's Peerage Limited|isbn=978-0-611-00817-6}} at Drottningholm Palace after a 30-year relationship.
  • date unknown - David Emanuel marries Elizabeth Weiner.{{cite book|author=Richard Harrison Martin|title=Contemporary Fashion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dWIjAQAAIAAJ|year=1995|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-173-2}}

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.[http://www.freewebs.com/stanleybakerarchive/apps/photos/photo?photoid=108100123 Ellen Baker, 'My Husband, My Love', Woman's Own Magazine, December 1976] accessed 26 May 2012
  • August - Dic Jones loses the National Eisteddfod chair on a technicality.
  • October - Mistar Urdd is created by Wynne Melville Jones.{{cite book|author=Wynne Melville Jones|title=Wyn Mel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REv2CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT64|date=14 August 2014|publisher=Y Lolfa|isbn=978-1-78461-029-6|pages=64|language=cy}}
  • unknown date - Griff Rhys Jones becomes Vice-President of the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club.{{cite book|author=M. J. Simpson|title=Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K-E2cAzsxwUC&pg=PA75|date=29 April 2005|publisher=Justin, Charles & Co.|isbn=978-1-932112-35-1|pages=75}}

=Awards=

=New books=

==English language==

==Welsh language==

  • John Emyr - Enaid Clwyfus{{cite book|title=National Union Catalog|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1OM8AQAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Rowman and Littlefield|page=467}}
  • Alun Llywelyn-Williams - Gwanwyn yn y Ddinas
  • Owain Owain - Y Dydd Olaf

=Poetry=

=New drama=

=Music=

Film

=Welsh-language films=

Broadcasting

  • Sir Huw Wheldon is knighted for his services to broadcasting.

=Welsh-language television=

  • Seren Wib, presented by Emyr Glasnant and Sharon Morgan{{cite book|author=Sharon Morgan|title=Hanes Rhyw Gymraes.|publisher=Y Lolfa|language=cy|year=2012}}

=Welsh language radio=

  • Tros Fy Sbectol

=English-language television=

  • How Green Was My Father: a Welsh Odyssey for 1976, with Ryan Davies and Max Boyce{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00jfhsz|title=How Green was my Father|access-date=17 September 2023|website=BBC|date=27 July 2011 }}

Sport

Births

Deaths

  • 3 January – Mal Evans, Beatles' former roadie and patron of Badfinger, 40 (shot){{cite book|author=Geoffery Giuliano|title=Lennon in America: 1971-1980, Based in Part on the Lost Lennon Diaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IhRtB87K_dIC&pg=PA238|date=2 July 2001|publisher=Cooper Square Press|isbn=978-1-4616-3561-1|pages=238}}
  • 23 January – Sir Tudor Thomas, ophthalmic surgeon, 82{{cite book |last1=Davies |first1=John |last2=Jenkins |first2=Nigel |title=The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales |year=2008 |publisher=University of Wales Press |location=Cardiff |isbn=978-0-7083-1953-6}}
  • 26 January – Eric Francis, architect, 88{{archINFORM|arch|14317|Eric Carwardine Francis|2012-04-24}}
  • 4 February – Roger Livesey, actor, 69{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/02/07/archives/roger-livesey-character-actor-on-stage-and-screen-is-dead.html|title=Roger Livesey, Character Actor On Stage and Screen, Is Dead|date=February 7, 1976|website=New York Times|access-date=30 April 2019}}
  • 12 February – John Lewis, Marxist philosopher, 87{{cite book|author=Rajani Palme Dutt|title=The Labour Monthly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bsFZAAAAYAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Labour Publishing Company|page=118}}
  • 14 February - Tommy Scourfield, dual code rugby player, 66
  • 29 March - Harold Davies, rugby player, 77{{cite book|author=Peter Jackson|title=Lions of Wales: A Celebration of Welsh Rugby Legends|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JqQeMae6VroC|year=1998|publisher=Mainstream|isbn=978-1-84018-026-8|page=210}}
  • 26 March - Duster Bennett, blues musician, 29 (car accident){{cite book|author=Nick Talevski|title=The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=beMTAQAAIAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Omnibus|isbn=978-0-7119-7548-4|page=24}}
  • 30 March - Jackie Mittell, footballer, 70
  • 31 March - Billy Moore, rugby player, 66
  • 18 April – Haydn Davies, politician, 70{{cite book|title=Who was who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HT4OAQAAMAAJ|year=1971|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-0-312-87746-0|page=199}}
  • 28 April – Richard Hughes, novelist, 76{{cite book|title=Twentieth-century Children's Writers|publisher=Macmillan Education UK|year=1978|isbn=9781349036486|page=624}}
  • 6 June – David Jacobs, athlete, 88
  • 20 June – Sir Goronwy Edwards, historian, 84 {{cite book|title=The Antiquaries Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5wEpAAAAYAAJ|year=1978|publisher=H. Milford, Oxford University Press|page=449}}
  • 28 June – Sir Stanley Baker, actor, 48{{cite book|author=Robert Shail|title=Stanley Baker: A Life in Film|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uZUrAQAAIAAJ|year=2008|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-2126-3|page=127}}
  • 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){{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of World Biography: Supplement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AIAUAQAAIAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Gale Research|isbn=978-0-7876-2945-8|page=117}}
  • 24 November - Ambrose Baker, rugby player, ?79
  • date unknown
  • Eveline Annie Jenkins, botanical artist, 82/83
  • Meirion Williams, songwriter

See also

References

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