1935 in Wales

1935 in Wales
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1935 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland
Other events of 1935

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1935 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

23 April - Morriston Orpheus Choir is founded by Ivor E. Sims.
17 June - The first detection of an aircraft by ground-based radar, is achieved by a team including Edward George Bowen.
October - At Nine Mile Point Colliery in Cwmfelinfach , 164 miners take part in a "stay-down" strike action lasting 177 hours.
14 November - In the UK general election:
- Megan Lloyd George reverts from Independent Liberal to Liberal MP after a 4-year estrangement from the party leadership.
- Newly elected MPs include Arthur Jenkins at Pontypool.
Ten people are jailed at Blaina and a further 32 at Merthyr Tydfil during a period of industrial unrest in South Wales.
Felinfoel Brewery in Llanelli becomes the first in Europe to sell beer in cans.
Industrialist MP Henry Haydn Jones is knighted and becomes the owner of Aberllefenni Quarry.

Y Chwarelwr, the first Welsh language film
Pink Shirts, an amateur film made by the Marquess of Anglesey and his family and written by Peter Fleming, satirizing the British Fascists movement.

Rugby - Swansea is the first British club to defeat a touring New Zealand side and become the first team, club or international, to beat all three major touring Southern Hemisphere countries.

15 February - Tom Reason, cricketer, 44
March - William Frost, inventor, 86
3 March - Caradog Roberts, composer, 46
13 March - Francis Vaughan, Roman Catholic bishop, 57 (post-operative complications)
20 March - Ernest Edwin Williams, journalist, author and barrister, 68
24 March - Maurice Parry, footballer, 57
9 May - John Goulstone Lewis, Wales international rugby union player, 75
18 May - T. E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia", 46 (motorcycle accident)^[2]
26 July - Albert Bethel, politician, 61
12 August - Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones, journalist and secretary to Lloyd George, 29 (murdered)^[3]
21 August - Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, politician, 94
20 September - Teddy Peers, footballer, 48
10 October - Samuel Evans, educationist
31 October - Noah Ablett, politician, 52 (alcohol-related)^[4]
13 December - Amy Dillwyn, businesswoman and novelist, 90

↑ National Library of Wales Dr Llewelyn Wyn Griffith Papers]. Accessed 16 November 2014
↑ "T.E. Lawrence, To Arabia and back". BBC. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
↑ "Journalist Gareth Jones' 1935 murder examined by BBC Four". BBC News. 2012-07-05. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
↑ The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines and Peredur Lynch (2008) pg11 ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6