1965 in Wales

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

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - Charles, Prince of Wales
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"
*Secretary of State for Wales - Jim Griffiths
*Archbishop of Wales - Edwin Morris
*Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Cynan

Events

*17 May - Thirty-one miners are killed in an accident at the Cambrian Colliery, Clydach Vale, Rhondda.
*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

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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

*Gwilym Meredydd Jones - "Dawns yr Ysgubau"
*Julian Mitchell - "The White Father"

Music

*Tom Jones releases the film theme, "What's New, Pussycat?" as a single.

Film

*Richard Burton stars in "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold".
*Glynis Johns stars in "Mary Poppins".
*"Tryweryn, the Story of a Valley" (film made by Friars School, Bangor).

Broadcasting

*BBC2 is received in South Wales for the first time.
*Arwel Hughes becomes Head of Music at BBC Wales.

Welsh-language television

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English-language television

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port

*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
*2 March - Lembit Öpik, politician
*3 May - Rob Brydon, comedian and actor
*9 November - Bryn Terfel, singer
*"date unknown" - Patrick Jones, poet and author

Deaths

*22 April - Glyn Stephens, Wales international rugby union captain
*3 May - Howard Spring, novelist
*17 July (in Scarborough) - Dan Lewis, footballer
*1 October - Gareth Hughes, actor
*22 October - William Williams, Victoria Cross recipient
*4 November - Ifor Williams, academic
*8 November - George Henry Hall, politician
*23 November - Murray Humphreys, Chicago mobster of Welsh descent
*26 December - Llewellyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies, Victoria Cross recipient