1958 in Wales

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1958 in Wales
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1958 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland
Other events of 1958

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1958 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

18 January - Nigel Birch resigns as Economic Secretary to the Treasury.
5 February - The Wales national football team qualifies for this summer's World Cup in Sweden under the management of Jimmy Murphy.^[1]
6 February - Manchester United, the English league champions where Jimmy Murphy is also assistant manager, are involved in a plane crash in Munich, West Germany, on the journey home from a European Cup tie in Yugoslavia. Seven United players are among the 21 people who die, but among the survivors is Swansea born winger Kenny Morgans.^[2]
25 February - The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is launched by Bertrand Russell.
6 May - Murderer Vivian Teed is hanged by Robert Leslie Stewart in Swansea Prison - the last execution to take place in Wales.
19 June - Wales are knocked out of the World Cup in the quarter-finals, losing to Brazil.^[3]
26 July - At the Empire Games in Cardiff, the Queen announces that her son, The Prince Charles, is to be created Prince of Wales.
6 August - Daniel Granville West becomes the first Welsh life peer.
13 December - New road bridge across the River Conway at Conway supersedes Telford's suspension bridge.
Huw T. Edwards leaves the Labour Party for Plaid Cymru in protest at the decision to flood the Tryweryn valley.

In order to broadcast the British Empire and Commonwealth Games from Cardiff, a broadcasting centre is set up on the bank of the River Taff, near Cardiff Arms Park.

Commercial TV becomes available in Wales, broadcasting some Welsh-language programmes, such as Amser Te.^[4]

British Empire and Commonwealth Games (held in Cardiff):
- Wales's only gold medal is won by Howard Winstone in the bantamweight boxing competition.
- Silver medals are won by: John Merriman (6 miles), Malcolm Collins (featherweight boxing), and Robert Higgins (light-heavyweight boxing).
- Due to being on National Service in the British Army, Swansea fighter Brian Curvis competed in the games for England, winning a bronze medal at welterweight.
Football - Wales reaches the quarter-finals of the World Cup.
Gymnastics - Margaret Neale of Cardiff is the British Women's Champion for the second year running.
BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year - Howard Winstone

31 January - Edgar Long, Wales international rugby player
1 February - Ernest Jones, psychoanalyst, 79
6 February - Charles Langbridge Morgan, novelist and dramatist, 64
3 April - John Strand-Jones, Wales international rugby union player
19 April - Billy Meredith, footballer, 83
18 July - Ernie Jenkins, Wales international rugby player, 77
20 July - Margaret Haig Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda, political campaigner and businesswoman, 75
29 August - Harry Beadles, international footballer, 60
25 September - Henry Arthur Evans, politician, 60
9 October - Sven Hansen, ship-owner, 82
30 October - Tommy Vile, Welsh international rugby player, 76
4 November - Dick Jones, Welsh international rugby player, 78
28 November (in Manchester) - Gareth Jones, actor, 33
date unknown - Ivor Lewis, Welsh-Canadian artist, 76

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