1982 in Wales

1982 in Wales
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Other events of 1982

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1982 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

2 January - The Welsh Army of Workers claims responsibility for a bomb explosion at the Birmingham headquarters of Severn Trent Water.^[1]
May - Swansea City complete their first season in the English Football League First Division with a sixth place finish.^[2]
2 June - 100,000 people gather in Pontcanna Fields, Cardiff, to welcome Pope John Paul II on the first-ever papal visit to Wales.
8 June - 32 men from the Welsh Guards are killed when the Sir Galahad burns during the Falklands War. The most famous of the survivors is Simon Weston, who is severely burned.
16 June - Welsh miners go on strike to support health workers demanding a 12% pay rise.^[3]
30 August - St David's Hall opens in Cardiff.
11 September - 14 skydivers from Wales die when a Chinook helicopter crashes at an airshow in Mannheim in Germany.^[4]
16 September - At the Gower by-election brought about by the death of Ifor Davies, Gareth Wardell holds the seat for Labour.
17 October - First issue of Sulyn, the first Sunday newspaper in the Welsh language.
A monument is erected at Gresford in memory of those who died in the Gresford Disaster of 1934.
The Inmos microprocessor factory in Newport, Wales, designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership, is completed.
Swansea is given the right to have a Lord Mayor.
First students begin courses at the Welsh language study centre at Nant Gwrtheyrn.

Roger Rees wins a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
Alice Thomas Ellis is shortlisted for the Booker Prize for The 27th Kingdom.

Political Annie’s Off Again, film of a local industrial dispute made by Chapter Video Workshop.

Boxing
- 14 September - Kelvin Smart becomes British flyweight champion after beating fellow Welsh fighter Dave George.
Darts - Ann-Marie Davies wins the Women's World Masters Championship.
Snooker - Terry Parsons wins the World Amateur Championship. Terry Griffiths wins the UK Open and the Mercantile Classic.

1 February - Gavin Henson, rugby player
4 February - Kevin Gall, footballer
2 May - Timothy Benjamin, athlete
21 June - Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, son of the Prince and Princess of Wales
29 August - Mike Phillips, rugby player
2 September - Matthew Rees, footballer
29 November - Imogen Thomas, model
25 December - Rob Edwards, footballer
date unknown - Amanda Hale, actress

5 January - Janetta Thomas, UK's oldest person and oldest Welsh-born woman of all time, 112
11 January - Ronald Lewis, actor, 53
5 February - Ronald Welch, historical novelist, 72
8 February - Cedric Morris, artist, 92
6 May - Jennie Eirian Davies, politician and magazine editor
19 May - Elwyn Jones, television writer, 58
31 May - Eryl Davies, educationist, 59
6 June - Ifor Davies, politician, 71
10 July
- Gwilym Jenkins (in Lancaster), statistician and systems engineer, 49
- Gwilym Ellis Lane Owen, philosopher, 60
17 July - Bob John, footballer, 83
16 August - Sydney Hinam, Wales international rugby player, 83
18 October - James Idwal Jones, politician, 82
19 October - Iorwerth Peate, founder of St Fagans National History Museum, 81
4 November - Talfryn Thomas, comedy actor, 60
16 November - Ivor Jones, rugby union international, 80
19 November - Herbie Evans, footballer, 88
4 December - Ivor Williams, artist, 74

↑ "Those were the days". Wolverhampton: Express & Star. Retrieved 2011-04-04.
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↑ "1982: Welsh miners back health workers". On This Day. BBC News. 16 June 2008. Retrieved 2007-11-30.
↑ Moore, Sarah. "Swansea skydivers remembered 30 years after Mannheim crash". BBC News. Retrieved 11 September 2012.