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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1987 to
Wales and
its people .
Incumbents
Events
12 January - The lowest daytime maximum temperature ever recorded in Wales (-8.0 °C) is recorded at
Trecastle ,
Powys .
[5]
12 February - The
Roman Catholic Church in Wales creates a new
Diocese of Wrexham
[6] and moves the
Diocese of Menevia to
Swansea .
5 March - The High Court declares
Dorothy Squires a
vexatious litigant .
[7]
15 March -
Roy Jenkins is elected Chancellor of the
University of Oxford .
[8]
14 April -
Oakwood Leisure Park opens near
Narberth, Pembrokeshire .
[9]
7 May - District council elections take place across Wales (and England). The
Conservatives lose control of
Cardiff City Council .
[10]
24 May -
Neil Kinnock is interviewed by
David Frost about Labour's defence policy and plans for government.
28 May - The
Mametz Wood Memorial , sculpted by David Petersen, is unveiled in Cardiff.
[11]
11 June - In the
general election
11 July - The
Mametz Wood Memorial is dedicated at the site of the Royal Welch Fusiliers battle of 1916 in France.
[13]
5 October -
Keith Best , former Conservative MP for Ynys Môn, having been sentenced to four months' imprisonment for share-dealing activities, has his sentence quashed by the Court of Appeal after serving five days.
[14]
19 October - Four people are killed in the
Glanrhyd Bridge collapse , when a train falls into the swollen
River Tywi ,
[15] as a result of the flooding that affects many parts of Wales.
20 November -
Roy Jenkins becomes Baron Jenkins of Hillhead.
[16]
22 November - The
Welsh language is used within the
Vatican for the first time on an official occasion, as part of a beatification ceremony for three Welsh martyrs.
[17]
date unknown
Arts and literature
Awards
New books
English language
Welsh language
Music
Film
Broadcasting
English-language radio
Welsh-language television
Sport
Births
9 January -
Bradley Davies , rugby union player
21 January -
Joe Ledley , footballer
24 January -
Wayne Hennessey , footballer
[27]
14 February -
Lee Selby , World champion boxer
24 March -
Rob Davies , footballer
27 March -
Adam Davies , footballer
April -
Hannah Stone , harpist
8 May -
Aneurin Barnard , actor
[28]
23 August -
Alexandra Roach , actress
4 September -
Mike O'Shea , cricketer
29 September -
Claire Williams , athlete
21 October -
Steph Davies , cricketer
30 November -
Victoria Thornley , Olympic rower
[29]
Deaths
5 January -
Brinley Williams , Wales dual-code rugby international, 91
21 January -
Donald Holroyde Hey , chemist, 83
[30]
4 February -
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas , writer and broadcaster, 78
[31]
7 March -
E. D. Jones , librarian, 83
[32]
4 April -
Richard Ithamar Aaron , philosopher, 85
[33]
13 April -
Alfred Evans , Labour MP, 73
[34]
19 April -
Stan Richards , footballer, 70
22 May -
Keidrych Rhys , poet and editor
[35]
22 June -
William Price , footballer, 83
20 August -
Dorothy Rees , politician, 89
[36]
4 September -
Richard Marquand , film director, 49 (stroke)
[37]
11 September -
Hugh David , television director, 62
25 September -
Emlyn Williams , dramatist and actor, 81
[38]
5 November -
Howard Davies , rugby player, 70
date unknown -
Clifford Williams , politician, Labour MP for Abertillery 1965–1970
[39]
See also
Notes
^ Stephen Bates (19 March 2018).
"Lord Crickhowell obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved 19 March 2020 .
^
"The Right Rev George Noakes: Archbishop of Wales, 1987-1991" . Times, The (London). 22 July 2008. Retrieved 27 July 2008 .
^
"WJ Gruffydd: Writer who helped keep alive the Welsh tradition" . The Independent . 20 July 2011. Retrieved 11 May 2022 .
^
"Former Archdruid of Wales Emrys Roberts dies at 82" . BBC News. 30 March 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2012 .
^ R Brugge (1987). "Low daytime temperatures over England and Wales on 12 January 1987". Weather . 42 (5): 146–152.
Bibcode :
1987Wthr...42..146B .
doi :
10.1002/j.1477-8696.1987.tb06953.x .
^ David Pepin (1994).
Discovering Cathedrals . Shire Publications. p. 169.
ISBN
978-0-7478-0173-3 .
^
Punch . January 1990. p. 124.
^ "What a swell party this is ..And, by the way, we also elected a chancellor – The triumph of Roy Jenkins".
The Times . 15 March 1987.
^ Chris Bunting (16 April 2004).
"Girl, 16, dies after roller-coaster fall" . The Independent .
Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 27 September 2019 .
^ Michael Thomas (8 May 1987). "Tories lose city control, but council hung".
South Wales Echo . pp. 1–2.
^ Wyke, Terry; Cocks, Harry (2004).
Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester . Liverpool University Press. p. 457.
ISBN
9780853235675 . Retrieved 15 April 2015 .
^ Byron Criddle (19 August 2005).
The Almanac of British Politics . Routledge. p. 892.
ISBN
978-1-134-49381-4 .
^
"File NLW ex 2596. - Ceremony of dedication : Mametz Wood memorial" . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 27 September 2019 .
^ Michael Levi (1999).
Fraud: Organization, Motivation, and Control . Ashgate. p. 389.
ISBN
978-1-85521-716-4 .
^ Report on the Collapse of Glanrhyd Bridge (1990), page 1
^
"No. 51132" .
The London Gazette . 25 November 1987. p. 14513.
^ Ivor Wynne Jones (2008).
Llandudno: Queen of the Welsh Resorts . Landmark Publishing. p. 130.
ISBN
978-1-84306-429-9 .
^
"Chris Loyn" . Building Dream Homes (
BBC ). 19 April 2012. Retrieved 27 September 2019 .
^ Steve Holland (3 March 2009).
Sci-Fi Art: A Graphic History . HarperCollins. p. 71.
ISBN
978-0-06-168489-0 .
^ Thomas Riggs (1996).
Contemporary Poets . St. James Press. p. 1.
ISBN
978-1-55862-191-6 .
^ Anthony Emery (1996).
Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500: Volume 2, East Anglia, Central England and Wales . Cambridge University Press. p. 699.
ISBN
978-0-521-58131-8 .
^ Ceri Davies (1995).
Welsh Literature and the Classical Tradition . University of Wales Press.
ISBN
978-0-7083-1321-3 .
^ Rhys Mwyn (2012). Cam O'r Tywyllwch (in Welsh). Y Lolfa.
ISBN
9781847715821 .
^
"On The Black Hill (1987)" . BFI Screenonline . Retrieved 13 August 2018 .
^
"BBC Wales Sport Personality winners" . BBC Sport . Retrieved 2 August 2021 .
^
"Historic day for England Women's Rugby" . rfu.com. 5 April 2012. Archived from
the original on 2013-07-09. Retrieved 6 January 2013 .
^ Hugman, Barry J., ed. (2009). The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2009–10 . Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing.
ISBN
978-1-84596-474-0 .
^
"Aneurin Barnard" . BBC Wales Arts . Retrieved 17 December 2019 .
^
"Victoria Thornley" . World Rowing . Retrieved 17 December 2019 .
^
Cadogan, J. I. G. ; Davies, D. I. (1988).
"Donald Holroyde Hey. 12 September 1904-21 January 1987" .
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 34 : 294–320.
doi :
10.1098/rsbm.1988.0011 .
JSTOR
770054 .
^
Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died . A. & C. Black. 1981. p. 776.
ISBN
978-0-7136-3336-8 .
^ Daniel Huws.
"Jones, Evan David (1903-1987), librarian and archivist" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 September 2019 .
^ Jones, O. R. "Aaron, Richard Ithamar (1901–1987)".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/65645 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^ John Graham Jones.
"Evans, Alfred Thomas ('Fred' 'Menai') (1914—1987), Labour politician" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 September 2019 .
^
Outposts . Outposts Publications. 1994.
^ Chris Williams, ‘Rees , Dame Dorothy Mary (1898–1987)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011
retrieved 10 January 2016
^
Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror . Locus Press. 1987.
ISBN
978-0-9616629-4-3 .
^ Krebs, Albin (September 26, 1987).
"Emlyn Williams, Welsh Actor and Writer, Dies" . The New York Times . Retrieved 2016-10-18 .
^ John Graham Jones.
"Williams, Albert Clifford (1905—1987), Labour politician" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 September 2019 .