1960 in Wales

1960 in Wales
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1960 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland
Other events of 1960

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1960 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

5 January - Closure of the Swansea and Mumbles Railway (opened to passengers in 1807 and by this date operated by double-deck electric trams).^[1]
12 April - Nine miners are killed in a mining accident at Tower Colliery, Hirwaun.
28 June - Forty-five miners are killed in an accident at Six Bells Colliery, Monmouthshire.^[2]
6 August - At Llandaff Cathedral a service of thanksgiving attended by Queen Elizabeth II is held to mark the end of eleven years' restoration work following air raid damage in 1941.^[3]
5 September - Poet and peace campaigner Waldo Williams is sentenced at Haverfordwest to imprisonment for six weeks for non-payment of income tax (a protest against defence spending).^[4]
3 November - Esso opens the first oil refinery at Milford Haven.^[5]
Portmeirion Pottery is established when Susan Williams-Ellis and her husband Euan Cooper-Willis (managers of the gift ship at her father's village of Portmeirion) take over Gray's Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent (England).

Sian Phillips marries Peter O'Toole.
Ricky Valance is the first male Welsh singer to hit number one in the charts, with his cover version of Tell Laura I Love Her.

Glynis Johns stars in The Sundowners.
Rachel Roberts stars in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, becoming the first Welsh actress to win a BAFTA for Best British Actress.
Keith Baxter appears alongside Orson Welles in Chimes at Midnight.

1 January - Broadcast of the first weekly episode of an eight-part serialization by BBC Wales of How Green Was My Valley.
Johnny Morris narrates the imported children's TV series Tales of the Riverbank.

Boxing - Dick Richardson wins the European Heavyweight title. Brian Curvis wins the British and Commonwealth welterweight titles.
Summer Olympics - David Broome wins a bronze medal on Sunsalve in the individual show jumping event.
Tennis - Mike Davies wins the British hard court title. He also becomes the first Welsh man to reach a Wimbledon final where he partnered Bobby Wilson in the Men's Doubles.
BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year - Brian Curvis

30 January - Peter Black AM, politician
6 February - Jeremy Bowen, journalist and television presenter
3 May - Geraint Davies, politician
9 May - Jillian Lane, spiritual medium (d. 2013)
23 June - Ricky Evans, rugby union player
29 June - Helen Mary Jones, politician (in Colchester)
13 July - Ian Hislop, satirist
18 September - Ian Lucas, politician
12 December - Kelvin Smart, Flyweight boxer
24 December - Carol Vorderman, TV personality (in Bedford)
date unknown
- Lesley Griffiths, politician
- Gareth Jones, orchestral and choral conductor
- Malcolm Pryce, novelist (in Shrewsbury)

↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
↑ "Welsh pit blast kills miners". On This Day (BBC). 28 June 1960. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
↑ "Cathedral's New Vistas: Llandaff Restoration Work Completed". The Times (54842) (London). 1960-08-05. p. 10.
↑ "Welsh Nationalist Sent to Prison". The Times (54869) (London). 1960-09-06. p. 6.
↑ "Duke To Open Milford Haven Oil Refinery Today". The Times (54919) (London). 1960-11-03. p. 7.