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      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

      =
      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

      =


      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

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


      = Music

      =
      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

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


      = English-language television

      =
      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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