• Source: 1995 in Wales

      • This article is about the particular significance of the year 1995 to Wales and its people.


      Incumbents



      Secretary of State for Wales – John Redwood (until 26 June); David Hunt (Acting); William Hague (from 5 July)
      Archbishop of Wales – Alwyn Rice Jones, Bishop of St Asaph
      Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – John Gwilym Jones


      Events


      3 January – Tower Colliery re-opens under the ownership of the workforce buyout company Goitre Tower Anthracite.
      1 February – Richey Edwards of the Manic Street Preachers disappears.
      16 February - In the Islwyn by-election brought about by the resignation of Neil Kinnock, Don Touhig is elected as Labour MP for the constituency.
      April – TBI plc purchases Cardiff-Wales Airport from Glamorgan County Council.
      20 July – Swansea-born Michael Heseltine becomes Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, an office last held by Geoffrey Howe.
      30 July – Police in North Wales launch a murder inquiry after the body of seven-year-old Sophie Hook (who had gone missing from a nearby house during the night) is found on a beach near Llandudno by a man walking his dog.
      6 August - Howard Hughes, a 30-year-old Colwyn Bay man, is charged with the murder of Sophie Hook.
      November - Diver Keith Hurley discovers the wreck of the submarine Resurgam (sunk 1880) off Rhyl.
      20 November - The Princess of Wales gives a revealing interview to Martin Bashir for the Panorama current affairs television programme on BBC 1, discussing her personal problems and marriage in candid detail.
      20 December – The Queen writes to The Prince and Princess of Wales urging them to divorce as soon as possible.
      Welsh historian Sir Rees Davies is appointed to the Chichele Chair of Medieval History in the University of Oxford.
      Historian Glanmor Williams is knighted.


      Arts and literature


      Roger Rees is nominated for a Tony for Best Actor in a Play for his role in Indiscretions.
      Michael Ball performs in the Les Misérables tenth anniversary concert.
      Peter Karrie is voted the favourite Phantom of members of The Phantom of the Opera Appreciation Society for the second year in a row.
      The Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, is opened by Jimmy Carter.


      = Awards

      =
      Glyndŵr Award – Kyffin Williams
      National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Abergele)
      National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – Tudur Dylan Jones
      National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Aled Gwyn
      National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – Angharad Jones for Y Dylluan Wen
      Wales Book of the Year:
      English language: Duncan Bush, Masks
      Welsh language: Aled Islwyn, Unigolion, Unigeddau
      Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen – Beryl Stafford Williams


      = New books

      =
      Roger Boore – Y Bachgen Gwyllt
      Robin Llywelyn – Y Dwr Mawr Llwyd
      R. S. Thomas – No Truce with the Furies
      Aled Rhys Wiliam – Cywain


      Film




      = English-language films

      =
      The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, with Kenneth Griffith
      Restoration is partly filmed at Caerphilly Castle.


      = Welsh-language films

      =
      Branwen


      Music


      Robin Huw Bowen – Harp Music of Wales (Cerddoriaeth Telyn Cymru)
      Carreg Lafar – Ysbryd y Werin
      Dafydd Iwan – Cân Celt
      Super Furry Animals – Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyndrobwllantysiliogogogochynygofod (in space) (E.P.)
      Triskedekaphilia (compilation album)


      Broadcasting


      30 September – 96.4 FM The Wave goes on air for the first time.


      = Welsh-language television

      =
      A55, starring Iwan "Iwcs" Roberts
      Rownd a Rownd, a youth-oriented soap opera set and filmed around Menai Bridge, launches on S4C


      = English-language television

      =
      John Rhys-Davies takes the lead in the new US drama series, Sliders.
      Somebody's Son (prizewinning documentary made for BBC2 and BBC Wales by Raw Charm).


      Sport


      BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Neville Southall
      Rugby Union
      4 June – A narrow defeat by Ireland results in Wales being eliminated from the Rugby World Cup competition after only three matches.


      Births


      5 January – Tom John, footballer
      13 February – Leona Vaughan, actress
      13 June – Anna Morris, cyclist
      30 June – Declan John, footballer
      4 July – Amy Hill, cyclist
      9 October – Jasmine Joyce-Butchers, rugby player
      12 October – Jordan Howe, Paralympic athlete
      30 November – Seb Morris, racing driver


      Deaths


      28 January – Philip Burton, theatre director and radio producer, 90
      2 February - Raymond Bark-Jones, English-born Wales international rugby union player, 83
      4 February - David Alexander, singer, 56
      8 February – Don Devereux, dual-code rugby player, 62
      8 February – Rachel Thomas, actress, 89
      11 March – Myfanwy Talog, actress, 50
      28 March - Julian Cayo-Evans, political activist, 57
      10 April – Glyn Jones, poet, author and academic, 90
      12 April – Cyril Sidlow, footballer, 89
      21 April – Tessie O'Shea, entertainer, 82
      21 June – Tristan Jones, sailor, 66
      24 June – Len Blyth, Wales international rugby player, 74
      25 September – Dave Bowen, footballer, 67
      26 September – Lynette Roberts, poet, 86
      5 December – Charles Evans, doctor and mountaineer, 77


      See also


      1995 in Northern Ireland


      References

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