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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1950 to Wales and its people.
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- February - Dylan Thomas makes his first visit to America.
- 23 February - For the first time ever, the Labour Party contests all Parliamentary seats in Wales. Following the General Election, Wales has 27 Labour MPs, 4 Liberals, 3 Conservatives and one National Liberal/Conservative.
- University of Wales seat is abolished.
- Roderic Bowen is re-elected for Cardiganshire, with the largest Liberal majority in the country.
- David Ormsby-Gore, the future Lord Harlech, becomes MP for Oswestry.
- Abertillery's Labour MP, George Daggar, dies later in the year, to be replaced by Llywelyn Williams.
- Lynn Ungoed-Thomas, following the abolition of his Llandaff and Barry constituency, is elected MP for Leicester North East.
- Roy Jenkins, whose Southwark seat has been abolished, is elected for Birmingham Stechford.
- Elwyn Jones becomes MP for West Ham South.
- Following the election, Ness Edwards becomes Postmaster-General. During his time in the role, he introduces the greetings telegram.
- 12 March - 75 of the 78 people on board an Avro Tudor V aircraft are killed when it crashes at Llandow in Glamorgan, making it the world's worst air disaster for the time.
- 27 August - Six people are killed in a rail collision at Penmaenmawr, Gwynedd.
- 2 October - The Welsh Air Service, the world's first scheduled helicopter service operates between Cardiff, Wrexham and Liverpool.
- In Swansea, three houses collapse, killing seven people.
- Glanllyn is acquired as a permanent site for meetings of Urdd Gobaith Cymru.
- In the Honours lists
- Physicist Ezer Griffiths is awarded the O.B.E.
- Agriculturist Thomas James Jenkin is awarded the C.B.E.
- Industrialist Herbert Henry Merrett is knighted.
- William Thomas Havard becomes Bishop of St David's.
- Margaret Haig Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda, becomes President of University College, Cardiff.
[edit] Arts and literature
- The first Welsh Drama Festival is held.
- American photojournalist W. Eugene Smith visits the UK to take photographs of working-class; three of those published are of the South Wales valleys.
[edit] Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Caerphilly) (first "all-Welsh" Eisteddfod)
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Gwilym Tilsley
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Euros Bowen
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld
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