• Source: 1958 in Wales

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




Incumbents



Minister of Welsh Affairs – Henry Brooke
Archbishop of Wales – Edwin Morris, Bishop of Monmouth
Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – William Morris




Events


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.
6 February – Manchester United F.C., 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.
25 February – The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is launched by Bertrand Russell.
2 April – Accidental discovery of the Caernarfon Mithraeum.
6 May – Murderer Vivian Teed is hanged by Robert Leslie Stewart in Swansea Prison, the last hanging to take place in Wales.
19 June – Wales are knocked out of the World Cup in the quarter-finals, losing to Brazil.
26 July – At the Empire Games in Cardiff, Elizabeth II announces that her son, The Prince Charles (now Charles III), is to be created Prince of Wales.
6 August – Daniel Granville West becomes the first Welsh life peer.
18 August
Accidental discovery of Brymbo Man (c.2000 BCE).
Regional postage stamps of Great Britain are first issued.
24 October – Huw T. Edwards announces his resignation from the chair of the Council for Wales and Monmouthshire in protest at the decision to flood the Tryweryn valley.
13 December – New road bridge across the River Conway at Conway supersedes Telford's suspension bridge.
Thomas Parry becomes Principal of University of Wales, Aberystwyth.




Arts and literature






= Awards

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National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Ebbw Vale)
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – T. Llew Jones, "Caerllion ar Wysg"
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Llywelyn Jones, "Cymod"
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – Edward Cynolwyn Pugh, "Hunangofiant: Ei Ffanffer ei Hun"




= New books

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English language

Tom Beynon – Howell Harris, Reformer and Soldier
Brenda Chamberlain – The Green Heart
Paul Ferris – A Changed Man
Cyril Fox – Pattern and purpose: a study of early Celtic art in Britain
Peter George – Red Alert
Emyr Humphreys – A Toy Epic
Bertrand Russell – Understanding History and Other Essays
Raymond Williams – Culture and Society



Welsh language

Aneirin Talfan Davies – Englynion a Chywyddau
Islwyn Ffowc Elis – Blas y Cynfyd
Bobi Jones – Nid yw Dwr yn Plygu
D. Gwenallt Jones – Cofiant Idwal Jones
T. Llew Jones – Trysor Plas y wernen and Merched y môr a chwedlau eraill
Ernest Llwyd Williams – Crwydro Sir Benfro




= New drama

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George Fisher – Y Ferch a'r Dewin
John Gwilym Jones – Lle Mynno'r Gwynt
Saunders Lewis – Brad




= Music

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Daniel Jones – The Country Beyond the Stars (cantata)
Ian Parrott – Cor Anglais concerto




Film


Richard Burton stars in the film version of Look Back in Anger.
Ronald Lewis co-stars in The Wind Cannot Read.
Release of The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, with location scenes (representing China) filmed around Nantmor near Beddgelert.




Broadcasting


July – 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.




= Welsh-language television

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




= English-language television

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30 November – During the live broadcast of the Armchair Theatre play Underground on the ITV network, actor Gareth Jones has a fatal heart attack between two of his scenes.
Gwlad y Gân / Land of Song, with Ivor Emmanuel and Sian Hopkins




Sports


British Empire and Commonwealth Games (held in Cardiff):
Wales' single 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 competes in the games for England, winning a bronze medal at welterweight.
Football – Wales reaches the quarter-finals of the World Cup, being knocked out by a goal from Pelé.
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




Births


4 January – Gary Jones, actor
1 March – Ian Love, footballer
2 March – Ian Woosnam, golfer
8 March – Wayne Hughes, footballer
16 April – Caryl Parry Jones, singer
30 April – Claire Curtis-Thomas, politician
8 May – Aneirin Hughes, actor
17 May – Paul Whitehouse, actor, writer and comedian
3 July – Siân Lloyd, television presenter
18 July – Chris Ruane, politician
19 July – Angharad Tomos, author
3 September (in Totnes) – Tamsin Dunwoody, politician
16 September – Neville Southall, footballer
4 October – Anneka Rice, television presenter
24 November – Robin Llywelyn, novelist
date unknown – Cerith Wyn Evans, conceptual artist




Deaths


31 January – Edgar Long, Wales international rugby player
January/February – William Beynon, Canadian oral historian, of Welsh parentage, 69/70
6 February – Charles Langbridge Morgan, novelist and dramatist, 64
11 February – Ernest Jones, psychoanalyst, 79
18 February – Rhisiart Morgan Davies, physicist, 55
2 April – Tudor Davies, singer, 65
3 April – John Strand-Jones, Wales international rugby union player
19 April – Billy Meredith, footballer, 83
28 April – Joseph Booth, rugby player, 84/85
18 July – Ernie Jenkins, Wales international rugby player, 77
20 July (in London) – 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
30 November (in Manchester) – Gareth Jones, actor, 33
November – Ivor Lewis, Welsh-Canadian artist, 76
13 December – Rose Davies, teacher, feminist, and labour activist, 66
date unknown – Evan Edwards, footballer, 59/60




See also


1958 in Northern Ireland




References

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