1995 in Wales

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

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – The Prince Charles
• Princess of Wales – Diana
• 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 buy out the company Goitre Tower Anthracite.^[1]
• 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 on the Panorama current affairs programme on BBC One television, discussing her adultery and personal problems in candid detail.^[2]
• 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 at 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 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^[3]
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Aled Gwyn^[4]
• 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 -

New books

• 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

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

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
• 4 July - Amy Hill, cyclist

Deaths

• 28 January - Philip Burton, theatre director and radio producer
• 29 January (in Thorpeness) - Richard Davies, CBE, member of the Royal Household
• 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
• 28 September - Lynette Roberts, poet, 86
• 22 October (in London) - Sir Kingsley Amis, novelist closely associated with Swansea, who set several of his works in Wales, 73

References

1. Times online
2. "1995: Diana admits adultery in TV interview". BBC News. 20 November 1995. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-30.
3. BBC - Eisteddfod Chair Winners. Accessed 26 August 2013
4. BBC - Eisteddfod Crown Winners. Accessed 26 August 2013