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This article is about the particular significance of the year
1976
to
Wales
and
its people
.
Contents
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Awards
New books
Poetry
New drama
Music
Film
Welsh-language films
Broadcasting
Welsh-language television
Welsh language radio
English-language television
Sport
Births
Deaths
See also
References
Incumbents
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
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
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
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
English language
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
John Emyr
-
Enaid Clwyfus
[
14
]
Alun Llywelyn-Williams
-
Gwanwyn yn y Ddinas
Owain Owain
-
Y Dydd Olaf
Poetry
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
John Gwilym Jones
-
Gobaith Mawr y Ganrif
Music
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
Welsh-language films
Y Dieithryn
, produced by
Emlyn Williams
Broadcasting
Sir
Huw Wheldon
is knighted for his services to broadcasting.
Welsh-language television
Seren Wib
, presented by Emyr Glasnant and Sharon Morgan
[
15
]
Tybed?
with
Marged Esli
Mae Gen i Stori
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
[
16
]
Sport
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
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
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 Davies
, 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
1976 in Northern Ireland
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.
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↑
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2
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.
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↑
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.
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↑
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.
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