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1982 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1982 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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  • Secretary of State for Wales – Nicholas Edwards{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/19/lord-crickhowell-obituary|title=Lord Crickhowell obituary|date=19 March 2018|website=The Guardian|author=Stephen Bates|access-date=19 March 2020}}
  • Archbishop of Wales – Gwilym Williams, Bishop of Bangor (retired){{cite book|author=Gerald Parsons|title=The Growth of Religious Diversity - Vol 2: Britain From 1945 Volume 2: Controversies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MbSLmy-a23sC&pg=PA106|date=20 June 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-13628-3|pages=106}}
  • Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Jâms Nicholas{{cite web|language=en |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/james-nicholas-poet-teacher-and-archdruid-of-wales-8887488.html |title=James Nicholas: Poet, teacher and Archdruid of Wales |work=The Independent |author=Stephens, Meic |date=17 October 2013 |access-date=21 October 2013 }}

Events

  • 2 January – The Welsh Army of Workers claims responsibility for a bomb explosion at the Birmingham headquarters of Severn Trent Water.{{cite web|url=https://www.expressandstar.com/days/1976-2000/1982.html|title=Those were the days|publisher=Express & Star|location=Wolverhampton|accessdate=4 April 2011}}
  • May – Swansea City complete their first season in the English Football League First Division with a sixth-place finish.{{Cite web |url=http://www.swanseacity.net/club/history.aspx |title=Swansea City AFC History |access-date=2013-02-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151114122803/http://www.swanseacity.net/club/history.aspx |archive-date=2015-11-14 |url-status=dead }}
  • 2 June – 100,000 people gather in Pontcanna Fields, Cardiff, to welcome Pope John Paul II on the first-ever papal visit to Wales.
  • 8 June – 32 men from the Welsh Guards are killed when the Sir Galahad burns during the Falklands War.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-17474296/falklands-war-disaster-for-british-at-bluff-cove|title=Disaster for British at Bluff Cove|publisher=BBC News|date=23 March 2012}} The most famous of the survivors is Simon Weston, who is severely burned.
  • 16 June – Welsh miners go on strike to support health workers demanding a 12% pay rise.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/16/newsid_2514000/2514195.stm|title=1982: Welsh miners back health workers|accessdate=30 November 2007|work=On This Day|publisher=BBC News|date=16 June 2008}}
  • 30 August – St David's Hall opens in Cardiff.
  • 11 September – 14 skydivers from Wales die when a Chinook helicopter crashes at an airshow in Mannheim in Germany.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-19548290|title=Swansea skydivers remembered 30 years after Mannheim crash|first=Sarah|last=Moore|date=|accessdate=11 September 2012|publisher=BBC News}}
  • 16 September – At the Gower by-election brought about by the death of Ifor Davies, Gareth Wardell holds the seat for Labour.
  • 17 October – First issue of Sulyn, the first Sunday newspaper in the Welsh language.{{cite book|author1=David Hutchison|author2=Hugh O’Donnell|title=Centres and Peripheries: Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Journalism in the Twenty-First Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ApknBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA48|date=18 January 2011|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=978-1-4438-2757-7|pages=48}}
  • 26 November – A plaque is unveiled by the Prince of Wales at the monument erected in memory of those who died in the Gresford Disaster of 1934.{{cite book|author=Stanley Williamson|title=Gresford: The Anatomy of a Disaster|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bY0gcfFVOgYC&pg=PA212|year=1999|publisher=Liverpool University Press|isbn=978-0-85323-892-8|pages=212}}
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  • The Inmos microprocessor factory in Newport, Wales, designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership, is completed.
  • Swansea is given the right to have a Lord Mayor. Councillor Paul Valerio becomes the first incumbent.{{cite web|url=https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/key-convention-members-2826024|title=Key convention members|date=15 July 2008|website=North Wales Daily Post|access-date=16 March 2019}}
  • First students begin courses at the Welsh language study centre at Nant Gwrtheyrn.

Arts and literature

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Film

  • Political Annie’s Off Again, film of a local industrial dispute made by Chapter Video Workshop.

Broadcasting

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Sport

Births

Deaths

  • 5 January – Jeanetta Thomas, UK's oldest person and oldest Welsh-born woman of all time, 112{{cite news|title=Oldest woman dies aged 112|pages=1|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=7 January 1982}}
  • 11 January – Ronald Lewis, actor, 53
  • 5 February – Ronald Welch, historical novelist, 72{{cite book|author=Pamela Dear|title=Contemporary authors: New revision series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UFKJnEi0sFQC|date=1 January 2000|publisher=Gale / Cengage Learning|isbn=978-0-7876-3095-9|page=47}}
  • 8 February – Cedric Morris, artist, 92
  • 6 May – Jennie Eirian Davies, politician and magazine editor{{cite book|author=Meic Stephens|title=The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic|url-access=registration|date=April 1986|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic/page/27 27]}}
  • 19 May – Elwyn Jones, television writer, 58
  • 31 May – Eryl Davies, educationist, 59
  • 6 June – Ifor Davies, politician, 71{{cite DWB|id=s6-DAVI-IFO-1910|title=Davies, Ivor (1910-1982), Labour politician|author=John Graham Jones|date=31 July 2008|access-date=2 June 2022}}
  • 10 July
  • Gwilym Jenkins (in Lancaster), statistician and systems engineer, 49
  • Gwilym Ellis Lane Owen, philosopher, 60
  • 17 July – Bob John, footballer, 83
  • 16 August – Sydney Hinam, Wales international rugby player, 83
  • 18 October – Idwal Jones, politician, 82{{Cite DWB|id=s6-JONE-IDW-1900|title=Jones, James Idwal (1900-1982), headteacher and Labour politician|date=30 July 2008|author=John Graham Jones|access-date=2 June 2022}}
  • 19 October – Iorwerth Peate, social anthropologist and poet, founder of St Fagans National Museum of History, 81{{cite book|title=Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OItnAAAAMAAJ|year=1982|publisher=University of Wales Press|page=549}}
  • 4 November – Talfryn Thomas, character actor, 60
  • 16 November – Ivor Jones, rugby union international, 80
  • 19 November – Herbie Evans, footballer, 88
  • 4 December – Ivor Williams, portrait painter, 74

See also

References

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