28 March - Rhondda East by-election: William Mainwaring retains the seat for Labour against Communist and Liberal opposition.[2]
18 April - 28 people are injured at Cockett railway station when a locomotive travelling from Swansea to Neyland collides with the rear of the stationary 11.55 am Paddington to Milford Haven train.[3]
June/July – Seven men and four women receive custodial sentences after a riot at Bedwas over strikebreaking.
22 July – Amy Johnson and Jim Mollison take off from Pendine on the first non-stop aeroplane flight from Great Britain to the United States.[4]
June - The first Gregynog Music Festival, Wales' oldest extant classical music festival, is organised by the sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies (granddaughters of Victorian industrialist David Davies) at their home, Gregynog Hall in Tregynon, Montgomeryshire.
Percy Cudlipp becomes editor of the Evening Standard – the youngest ever editor of a British national newspaper.
Isaac Morris – Proffwydi'r Wythfed Ganrif Cyn Crist[13]
Music
Ieuan Rees-Davies – Transposition at the keyboard (manual)[14]
Film
Ivor Novello stars in I Lived with You, Sleeping Car, and Autumn Crocus.[15]
Broadcasting
28 May – The BBC begins broadcasting the Welsh Regional Programme to South Wales from the Washford transmitter
17 July – The BBC begins broadcasting the National Programme to South Wales from the Washford transmitter
The first broadcast is made from the Urdd Eisteddfod.
Sport
Rugby union, although collecting the 'wooden spoon' in the Home Nations Championship, Wales beat England at Twickenham for the very first time, after ten previous attempts.
Births
2 January – Keith Thomas, early modern historian and academic
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