1965 in Wales

Centuries:	18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; ;
Decades:	1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; Timeline of Welsh history 1965 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1965 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents[edit]

Secretary of State for Wales – Jim Griffiths
Archbishop of Wales – Edwin Morris, Bishop of Monmouth
Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Cynan

Events[edit]

May – Opening of Llandegfedd Reservoir by Newport Corporation.^[1]
17 May – Thirty-one miners are killed in a mining accident at the Cambrian Colliery, Clydach Vale, Rhondda.
24 May – The first drive-on car ferry service between Fishguard and Rosslare Harbour (Ireland) officially opens.
15 June – The Hughes-Parry Committee submits its report on the legal status of the Welsh language.^[2]
21 October – Official opening of Llyn Celyn reservoir.
17 December – A landslide on the main railway line at Bridgend kills a train driver and co-driver.
Foundation of Undeb y Cymraeg Byw ("Union of Living Welsh").

Arts and literature[edit]

Awards[edit]

National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Newtown, Montgomeryshire)
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – William David Williams
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Tom Parri Jones
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – Eigra Lewis Roberts

New books[edit]

English language[edit]

Peter Bryan George – Commander-1
Julian Mitchell – The White Father

Welsh language[edit]

Bedwyr Lewis Jones (ed.) – Blodeugerdd o'r Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg
Gwilym Meredydd Jones – Dawns yr Ysgubau

Music[edit]

12 December – The Beatles' last live U.K. tour concludes with two performances at the Capitol, Cardiff.^[3]
Tom Jones releases the film theme, "What's New Pussycat?" as a single.
Rockfield Studios (near Rockfield, Monmouthshire) becomes the world's first residential recording studio.

Film[edit]

Richard Burton stars in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, for which he would be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.^[4]
Glynis Johns stars in Mary Poppins.
Tryweryn, the Story of a Valley (film made by Friars School, Bangor).^[5]

Theatre[edit]

26 March – Harold Pinter's play The Homecoming has its world première at the New Theatre, Cardiff.^[6]

Broadcasting[edit]

February - BBC2 is received in South Wales for the first time, as a result of a new transmitter.^[7]
date unknown - Arwel Hughes becomes Head of Music at BBC Wales.^[8]

Welsh-language television[edit]

Dafydd Iwan begins appearing regularly on TWW's Y Dydd.^[9]

English-language television[edit]

As I See It, presented by Gwyn Thomas

Sport[edit]

Rugby union – Wales win the Triple Crown for the first time in 13 years.
BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Clive Rowlands^[10]

Births[edit]

5 January – Vinnie Jones, footballer (in Watford, England)^[11]
22 February – Steve Speirs, born Steven Roberts, actor
2 March (in Bangor, County Down) – Lembit Öpik, politician
6 March – Allan Bateman, rugby player
1 April – Alexandra Shân "Tiggy" Legge-Bourke, royal nanny^[12]
9 April – Colin Pascoe, footballer
April – Manon Antoniazzi, née Jenkins, Chief Executive and Clerk of the Senedd
3 May – Rob Brydon, comedian and actor^[13]
8 May – Andy Dibble, footballer
11 May – Jeremy Goss, footballer
16 May – Vincent Regan, actor
25 August – David Taylor, soccer player and manager
13 September – Andrew Williams, cricketer
16 October – Floyd Havard, British super-featherweight boxing champion
30 October – Michael Tremellen, cricketer
9 November – Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone singer
date unknown – Patrick Jones, poet and author

Deaths[edit]

7 January – Sarah Edwards, actress, 83^[14]
18 January – Ernest Evans, politician, 79^[15]
29 January – T. Harri Jones, poet and academic, 43 (suicide)^[16]
4 February
- Hugh Morriston Davies, thoracic surgeon, 85^[17]
- Llywelyn Williams, politician, 53^[18]
5 February – Sir David Brunt, meteorologist, 78^[19]
1 April – Sir John William Bowen, trade unionist and politician, 88^[20]
22 April – Glyn Stephens, Wales international rugby union captain, 73
3 May – Howard Spring, novelist, 76^[21]
29 May – Steve Morris, Wales international rugby player, 68
16 June – Dai Parker, Wales and British Lion rugby player, 60
17 July (in Scarborough) – Dan Lewis, footballer
18 August – Christmas Price Williams, politician, 83^[22]
24 August – Elvyn Bowen, cricketer, 58
30 August – Llew Edwards, boxer, 72
11 September – Trevor Preece, cricketer, 82
1 October – Gareth Hughes, actor, 71^[23]
9 October – Russell Taylor, Wales international rugby player, 50
16 October – Hywel Davies, radio broadcaster, television interviewer and writer, 46^[24]
22 October – William Williams, Victoria Cross recipient, 75^[25]
31 October – John Roberts, Wales international rugby player, 59
4 November – Ifor Williams, academic, 84^[26]
8 November – George Hall, politician, 83^[27]
23 November – Murray Humphreys, Chicago mobster of Welsh descent, 66^[28]
26 December – Llewelyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies, Victoria Cross recipient, 87^[29]
29 December – Claude Warner, cricketer, 83

References[edit]

^ Davis, Haydn. "Chronology of the Twentieth Century". Newport Past. Retrieved 2015-03-08.
^ Hansard 1965.
^ "Live: Capitol Cinema, Cardiff". The Beatles Bible. 1965-12-12. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
^ "The 38th Academy Awards 1966". Oscars. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
^ "Tryweryn, the Story of a Valley". BFI Online. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
^ Nightingale, Benedict (1965-03-27). "review: The Homecoming at Cardiff". The Guardian. p. 6.
^ David Maxwell Barlow; Tom O'Malley; Philip Mitchell (2005). The media in Wales: voices of a small nation. University of Wales Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-7083-1840-9.
^ Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1965). Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command. H.M. Stationery Office.
^ Jamie Medhurst (1 June 2010). A History of Independent Television in Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-7083-2308-3.
^ "BBC Wales Sport Personality winners". BBC Sport. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
^ Vinnie Jones (17 July 2014). It's Been Emotional. Simon and Schuster. pp. 9–. ISBN 978-1-4711-2759-5.
^ Francis Wheen (2002). Hoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies: Collected Journalism, 1991-2001. Atlantic. ISBN 978-1-903809-42-6.
^ Rob Brydon (2012). Small Man in a Book. Penguin Books, Limited. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-241-95482-9.
^ Evelyn Mack Truitt (1 July 1977). Who was who on screen. Bowker. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-8352-0914-4.
^ Evan David Jones. "Evans, Ernest (1885-1965), county court judge, M.P." Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
^ Belinda Humfrey (March 1995). 'Fire green as grass': studies of the creative impulse in Anglo-Welsh poetry and short stories of the twentieth century. Gomer. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-85902-168-2.
^ Emyr Wyn Jones. "Davies, Hugh Morriston (1879-1965), probably the most outstanding pioneer of thoracic surgery in Britain". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
^ Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1964). Journals of the House of Commons. order of the House of Commons. p. 124.
^ Indian Journal of Meteorology & Geophysics. India Meteorological Department. 1965. p. 527.
^ "Obituary: Sir William Bowen", The Times, 2 April 1965
^ Marion Ursula Howard Spring (1967). Howard. Collins. p. 13.
^ John Graham Jones. "Williams, Christmas Price (1881-1965), politician and engineer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
^ John A. Willis (1983). Screen World. Crown Publishers. p. 237.
^ Williams, Griffith John. "Hywel Davies". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
^ Max Arthur (2005). Symbol of Courage: The Men Behind the Medal. Pan Macmillan. p. 684. ISBN 978-0-330-49133-4.
^ British Academy (2002). Interpreters of Early Medieval Britain. British Academy. p. 304. ISBN 978-0-19-726277-1.
^ Frank C. Roberts (1961). Obituaries from the Times. Newspaper Archive Developments Limited. p. 335.
^ Virgil W. Peterson (1983). The Mob: 200 Years of Organized Crime in New York. Green Hill Publishers. p. 416. ISBN 978-0-89803-123-2.
^ Max Arthur (2005). Symbol of Courage: The Men Behind the Medal. Pan Macmillan. p. 671. ISBN 978-0-330-49133-4.

[1] Davis, Haydn. "Chronology of the Twentieth Century". Newport Past. Retrieved 2015-03-08.

[2] Hansard 1965.

[3] "Live: Capitol Cinema, Cardiff". The Beatles Bible. 1965-12-12. Retrieved 2014-02-19.

[4] "The 38th Academy Awards 1966". Oscars. Retrieved 29 December 2018.

[5] "Tryweryn, the Story of a Valley". BFI Online. Retrieved 29 December 2018.

[6] Nightingale, Benedict (1965-03-27). "review: The Homecoming at Cardiff". The Guardian. p. 6.

[7] David Maxwell Barlow; Tom O'Malley; Philip Mitchell (2005). The media in Wales: voices of a small nation. University of Wales Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-7083-1840-9.

[8] Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1965). Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command. H.M. Stationery Office.

[Medhurst2010-9] Jamie Medhurst (1 June 2010). A History of Independent Television in Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-7083-2308-3.

[10] "BBC Wales Sport Personality winners". BBC Sport. Retrieved 29 July 2021.

[11] Vinnie Jones (17 July 2014). It's Been Emotional. Simon and Schuster. pp. 9–. ISBN 978-1-4711-2759-5.

[12] Francis Wheen (2002). Hoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies: Collected Journalism, 1991-2001. Atlantic. ISBN 978-1-903809-42-6.

[13] Rob Brydon (2012). Small Man in a Book. Penguin Books, Limited. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-241-95482-9.

[14] Evelyn Mack Truitt (1 July 1977). Who was who on screen. Bowker. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-8352-0914-4.

[15] Evan David Jones. "Evans, Ernest (1885-1965), county court judge, M.P." Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 March 2020.

[16] Belinda Humfrey (March 1995). 'Fire green as grass': studies of the creative impulse in Anglo-Welsh poetry and short stories of the twentieth century. Gomer. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-85902-168-2.

[17] Emyr Wyn Jones. "Davies, Hugh Morriston (1879-1965), probably the most outstanding pioneer of thoracic surgery in Britain". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 March 2020.

[18] Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1964). Journals of the House of Commons. order of the House of Commons. p. 124.

[19] Indian Journal of Meteorology & Geophysics. India Meteorological Department. 1965. p. 527.

[20] "Obituary: Sir William Bowen", The Times, 2 April 1965

[21] Marion Ursula Howard Spring (1967). Howard. Collins. p. 13.

[22] John Graham Jones. "Williams, Christmas Price (1881-1965), politician and engineer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 March 2020.

[23] John A. Willis (1983). Screen World. Crown Publishers. p. 237.

[24] Williams, Griffith John. "Hywel Davies". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 May 2017.

[25] Max Arthur (2005). Symbol of Courage: The Men Behind the Medal. Pan Macmillan. p. 684. ISBN 978-0-330-49133-4.

[26] British Academy (2002). Interpreters of Early Medieval Britain. British Academy. p. 304. ISBN 978-0-19-726277-1.

[27] Frank C. Roberts (1961). Obituaries from the Times. Newspaper Archive Developments Limited. p. 335.

[28] Virgil W. Peterson (1983). The Mob: 200 Years of Organized Crime in New York. Green Hill Publishers. p. 416. ISBN 978-0-89803-123-2.

[29] Max Arthur (2005). Symbol of Courage: The Men Behind the Medal. Pan Macmillan. p. 671. ISBN 978-0-330-49133-4.

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Incumbents[edit]

Events[edit]

Arts and literature[edit]

Awards[edit]

New books[edit]

English language[edit]

Welsh language[edit]

Music[edit]

Film[edit]

Theatre[edit]

Broadcasting[edit]

Welsh-language television[edit]

English-language television[edit]

Sport[edit]

Births[edit]

Deaths[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]