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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1982 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Events

  • 2 January – The Welsh Army of Workers claims responsibility for a bomb explosion at the Birmingham headquarters of Severn Trent Water.[2]
  • May – Swansea City complete their first season in the English Football League First Division with a sixth-place finish.[3]
  • 2 June – 100,000 people gather in Pontcanna Fields, Cardiff, to welcome Pope John Paul II on the first-ever papal visit to Wales.
  • 8 June – 32 men from the Welsh Guards are killed when the Sir Galahad burns during the Falklands War.[4] The most famous of the survivors is Simon Weston, who is severely burned.
  • 16 June – Welsh miners go on strike to support health workers demanding a 12% pay rise.[5]
  • 30 August – St David's Hall opens in Cardiff.
  • 11 September – 14 skydivers from Wales die when a Chinook helicopter crashes at an airshow in Mannheim in Germany.[6]
  • 16 September – At the Gower by-election brought about by the death of Ifor Davies, Gareth Wardell holds the seat for Labour.
  • 17 October – First issue of Sulyn, the first Sunday newspaper in the Welsh language.[7]
  • 26 November – A plaque is unveiled by the Prince of Wales at the monument erected in memory of those who died in the Gresford Disaster of 1934.[8]
  • date unknown
    • The Inmos microprocessor factory in Newport, Wales, designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership, is completed.
    • Swansea is given the right to have a Lord Mayor. Councillor Paul Valerio becomes the first incumbent.[9]
    • First students begin courses at the Welsh language study centre at Nant Gwrtheyrn.

Arts and literature

Awards

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Swansea)
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Gerallt Lloyd Owen
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Eirwyn George
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Gwilym M. Jones

New books

  • Gwynfor Evans - Bywyd Cymro
  • Alun Jones - Pan Ddaw'r Machlud
  • R. Merfyn Jones - The North Wales Quarrymen 1874-1922
  • Rhiannon Davies Jones - Eryr Pengwern
  • Kenneth O. Morgan - Rebirth of a Nation: Wales 1880-1980
  • Wynford Vaughan-Thomas - Princes of Wales

Music

Film

  • Political Annie’s Off Again, film of a local industrial dispute made by Chapter Video Workshop.

Broadcasting

Welsh-language television

  • Cefn Gwlad
  • Joni Jones
  • Noson Lawen appears for the first time.
  • S4C starts broadcasting on 1 November

English-language television

Sport

  • Boxing
    • 14 September – Kelvin Smart becomes British flyweight champion after beating fellow Welsh fighter Dave George.
  • Darts – Ann-Marie Davies wins the Women's World Masters Championship.
  • Snooker
    • 13 January – Terry Griffiths wins the Lada Classic.
    • 4 December – Terry Griffiths wins the UK Snooker Championship,[10] to complete his career Triple Crown (snooker).
    • Terry Parsons wins the World Amateur Championship.

Births

  • 1 February – Gavin Henson, rugby player
  • 4 February – Kevin Gall, footballer
  • 2 May – Timothy Benjamin, athlete
  • 12 May – David Thaxton, actor and singer
  • 21 June – Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, son of the Prince and Princess of Wales
  • 29 August – Mike Phillips, rugby player
  • 2 September – Matthew Rees, footballer
  • 29 November – Imogen Thomas, model
  • 25 December – Rob Edwards, footballer
  • date unknown – Amanda Hale, actress

Deaths

  • 5 January – Janetta Thomas, UK's oldest person and oldest Welsh-born woman of all time, 112[11]
  • 11 January – Ronald Lewis, actor, 53
  • 5 February – Ronald Welch, historical novelist, 72[12]
  • 8 February – Cedric Morris, artist, 92
  • 6 May – Jennie Eirian Davies, politician and magazine editor[13]
  • 19 May – Elwyn Jones, television writer, 58
  • 31 May – Eryl Davies, educationist, 59
  • 6 June – Ifor Davies, politician, 71
  • 10 July
  • 17 July – Bob John, footballer, 83
  • 16 August – Sydney Hinam, Wales international rugby player, 83
  • 18 October – James Idwal Jones, politician, 82
  • 19 October – Iorwerth Peate, founder of St Fagans National History Museum, 81[14]
  • 4 November – Talfryn Thomas, comedy actor, 60
  • 16 November – Ivor Jones, rugby union international, 80
  • 19 November – Herbie Evans, footballer, 88
  • 4 December – Ivor Williams, artist, 74

See also

References

  1. ^ Stephen Bates (19 March 2018). "Lord Crickhowell obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  2. ^ "Those were the days". Wolverhampton: Express & Star. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-11-14. Retrieved 2013-02-27.
  4. ^ "Disaster for British at Bluff Cove". BBC News. 23 March 2012.
  5. ^ "1982: Welsh miners back health workers". On This Day. BBC News. 16 June 2008. Retrieved 30 November 2007.
  6. ^ Moore, Sarah. "Swansea skydivers remembered 30 years after Mannheim crash". BBC News. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  7. ^ David Hutchison; Hugh O’Donnell (18 January 2011). Centres and Peripheries: Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Journalism in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-4438-2757-7.
  8. ^ Stanley Williamson (1999). Gresford: The Anatomy of a Disaster. Liverpool University Press. p. 212. ISBN 978-0-85323-892-8.
  9. ^ "Key convention members". North Wales Daily Post. 15 July 2008. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  10. ^ "Profile: Terry Griffiths". Eurosport. 3 February 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  11. ^ "Oldest woman dies aged 112". The Guardian. 7 January 1982. p. 1.
  12. ^ Pamela Dear (1 January 2000). Contemporary authors: New revision series. Gale / Cengage Learning. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-7876-3095-9.
  13. ^ Meic Stephens (April 1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford University Press. p. 27.
  14. ^ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1982. p. 549.
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