1987 in Wales

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1987 in the United Kingdom

1987 in Ireland

Other events of 1987

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1987 to Wales and its people.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 3 Arts and literature 3.1 Awards 3.2 New books 3.3 Music 4 Film 4.1 Welsh-language films 5 Broadcasting 5.1 English-language radio 5.2 Welsh-language television 6 Sport 7 Births 8 Deaths

[edit] Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Charles, Prince of Wales
• Princess of Wales - Diana, Princess of Wales
• Secretary of State for Wales - Peter Walker
• Archbishop of Wales - George Noakes

[edit] Events

• 12 January - The lowest daytime maximum temperature ever recorded in Wales ( -8.0 C)is recorded at Trecastle, Powys.
• 24 May - Neil Kinnock is interviewed by David Frost about Labour's defence policy and plans for government.
• 11 June - In the general election
  • Plaid Cymru's Ieuan Wyn Jones wins the seat of Ynys Môn from the Conservatives. Plaid retain their other two parliamentary seats.
  • Alun Michael replaces James Callaghan as MP for Cardiff South.
  • Labour's Paul Flynn wins back Newport West from the Conservatives.
• October - Flooding affects many parts of Wales. Four people are killed when a train falls into the River Tywi at Glanrhyd.
• 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.
• A planning application is turned down at Llanrhaeadr, Clwyd, on the grounds that it would be detrimental to the Welsh language. It is the first time such a decision has ever been made.
• The Roman Catholic Church in Wales creates a new diocese of Wrexham and moves the diocese of Menevia to Swansea.
• Creation of the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation.
• Roy Jenkins becomes Baron Jenkins of Hillhead and is elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford.

[edit] Arts and literature

• Jim Burns becomes the first non-American to win the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist.

[edit] Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Porthmadog)

• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Ieuan Wyn
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - John Griffith Jones
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Margiad Williams

[edit] New books

• Dannie Abse - Ask the Bloody Horse
• Rees Davies - Wales: The Age Of Conquest, 1063-1415
• Stephen Gregory - The Cormorant
• Douglas Houston - With the Offal Eaters
• Nesta Wyn Jones - Rhwng Chwerthin a Chrio
• Alan Llwyd - Barddoniaeth y Chwedegau
• Gwylon Phillips - Llofruddiaeth Shadrach Lewis
• J. Beverley Smith - Llywelyn ap Gruffudd
• Frances Thomas - Seeing Things
• Peter Thomas - Strangers from a Secret Land
• R. S. Thomas - Welsh Airs
• Rhydwen Williams - Amser i Wylo

[edit] Music

• Anrhefn - Defaid Skateboard a Wellies
• The Alarm - Eye Of The Hurricane (album)
• Frank Hennessy - Thoughts and Memories (album)
• Karl Wallinger - Private Revolution (album)

[edit] Film

• Christian Bale stars in Empire of the Sun.
• Timothy Dalton makes his debut as James Bond in The Living Daylights.

[edit] Welsh-language films

• Rhosyn a Rhith (Coming Up Roses), directed by Stephen Bayly

[edit] Broadcasting

[edit] English-language radio

• John Humphrys becomes a regular presenter on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

[edit] Welsh-language television

• Ioan Gruffudd joins the cast of Pobol y Cwm.

[edit] Sport

• Welsh Sports Personality of the Year - Ian Woosnam

[edit] Births

• 4 September - Mike O'Shea, cricketer

[edit] Deaths

• 4 February - Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, writer and broadcaster
• 4 April - Richard Ithamar Aaron, philosopher
• 4 September - Richard Marquand, film director
• 11 September - Hugh David, television director
• 25 September - Emlyn Williams, dramatist and actor
• 27 December - Anna Eliza Williams, oldest documented person in the world
• date unknown
  • Dorothy Rees, politician
  • Keidrych Rhys, poet and editor
  • Albert Clifford Williams, politician, Labour MP for Abertillery 1965–1970