1965 in Wales

Template:Short description Template:Year in Wales header This article is about the particular significance of the year 1965 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

Events

• May – Opening of Llandegfedd Reservoir by Newport Corporation.
• 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.
• 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.
• unknown dates
  • Foundation of Undeb y Cymraeg Byw ("Union of Living Welsh").
  • Mount Stuart Primary School, Cardiff, appoints Betty Campbell, the first black female head teacher in Wales

Arts and literature

Awards

• 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

English language

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

Welsh language

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

Music

• 12 December – The Beatles' last live U.K. tour concludes with two performances at the Capitol, Cardiff.
• 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

• 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.
• Glynis Johns stars in Mary Poppins.
• Tryweryn, the Story of a Valley (film made by Friars School, Bangor).

Theatre

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

Broadcasting

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

Welsh-language television

• Dafydd Iwan begins appearing regularly on TWW's Y Dydd.

English-language television

• As I See It, presented by Gwyn Thomas

Sport

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

Births

• 5 January – Vinnie Jones, footballer (in Watford, England)
• 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
• 9 April – Colin Pascoe, footballer
• April – Manon Antoniazzi, née Jenkins, Chief Executive and Clerk of the Senedd
• 3 May – Rob Brydon, comedian and actor
• 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

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

See also

• 1965 in Northern Ireland