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1987 in: The United Kingdom

This article is about the particular significance of the year1987 toWales andits people.

Incumbents

For United Kingdom incumbents, see1987 in the United Kingdom § Incumbents.

Secretary of State for Wales –Nicholas Edwards (until 13 June);^[1]Peter Walker
Archbishop of Wales –George Noakes,Bishop of St David's (elected)^[2]
Archdruid of theNational Eisteddfod of Wales
- Elerydd (outgoing)^[3]
- Emrys Deudraeth (incoming)^[4]

Events

12 January - The lowest daytime maximum temperature ever recorded in Wales (−8.0 °C) is recorded atTrecastle,Powys.^[5]
12 February - TheRoman Catholic Church in Wales creates a newDiocese of Wrexham^[6] and moves theDiocese of Menevia toSwansea.
5 March - The High Court declaresDorothy Squires avexatious litigant.^[7]
15 March -Roy Jenkins is elected Chancellor of theUniversity of Oxford.^[8]
14 April -Oakwood Leisure Park opens nearNarberth, Pembrokeshire.^[9]
7 May - District council elections take place across Wales (and England). TheConservatives lose control ofCardiff City Council.^[10]
24 May -Neil Kinnock is interviewed byDavid Frost about Labour's defence policy and plans for government.
28 May - TheMametz Wood Memorial, sculpted by David Petersen, is unveiled in Cardiff.^[11]
11 June - In thegeneral election
- Plaid Cymru'sIeuan Wyn Jones wins the seat ofYnys Môn from the Conservatives. Plaid retain their other two parliamentary seats.^[12]
- Alun Michael replacesJames Callaghan as MP for Cardiff South.
- Labour'sPaul Flynn wins back Newport West from the Conservatives.
11 July - TheMametz Wood Memorial is dedicated at the site of the Royal Welch Fusiliers battle of 1916 in France.^[13]
5 October -Keith Best, former Conservative MP for Ynys Môn, having been sentenced to four months' imprisonment for share-dealing activities, has his sentence quashed by the Court of Appeal after serving five days.^[14]
19 October - Four people are killed in theGlanrhyd Bridge collapse, when a train falls into the swollenRiver Tywi,^[15] as a result of the flooding that affects many parts of Wales.
20 November -Roy Jenkins becomes Baron Jenkins of Hillhead.^[16]
22 November - TheWelsh language is used within theVatican for the first time on an official occasion, as part of a beatification ceremony for three Welsh martyrs.^[17]
date unknown
- Creation of theCardiff Bay Development Corporation.
- Chris Loyn establishes the architectural practiceLoyn & Co in Penarth.^[18]
- TheNational Trust buys Dinefwr Park inLlandeilo, including the deer park.

Arts and literature

Jim Burns becomes the first non-American to win theHugo Award for Best Professional Artist.^[19]

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales (held inPorthmadog)
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair -Ieuan Wyn
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown -John Griffith Jones
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal -Margiad Williams

New books

English language

Dannie Abse -Ask the Bloody Horse^[20]
Rees Davies -Wales: The Age Of Conquest, 1063-1415^[21]
Stephen Gregory -The Cormorant
Douglas Houston -With the Offal Eaters
J. Beverley Smith -Llywelyn ap Gruffudd
Frances Thomas -Seeing Things
Peter Thomas -Strangers from a Secret Land
R. S. Thomas -Welsh Airs

Welsh language

Euros Bowen -Oes y Medwsa^[22]
T. Glynne Davies -Cerddi
Dafydd Glyn Jones -Drych yr Amseroedd
Nesta Wyn Jones -Rhwng Chwerthin a Chrio
Alan Llwyd -Barddoniaeth y Chwedegau
Gwylon Phillips -Llofruddiaeth Shadrach Lewis
Rhydwen Williams -Amser i Wylo

Music

3 December - Indian classical musicianRam Narayan records his albumRag Lalit at Wyastone Leys near Monmouth.
MusicFest Aberystwyth is founded by cellist Nicholas Jones.
The Alarm -Eye Of The Hurricane (album)
Anrhefn -Defaid Skateboard a Wellies^[23]
Y Cyrff -Y Testament Newydd (EP)
Frank Hennessy -Thoughts and Memories (album)
Karl Wallinger -Private Revolution (album)

Film

Timothy Dalton makes his debut asJames Bond inThe Living Daylights.
On the Black Hill, adapted from the novel byBruce Chatwin and set in Wales, starsBob Peck,Gemma Jones andMike Gwilym.^[24]

Broadcasting

English-language radio

John Humphrys becomes a regular presenter onBBC Radio 4'sToday programme.

Welsh-language television

Ioan Gruffudd joins the cast ofPobol y Cwm.

Sport

BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year -Ian Woosnam.^[25]
Golf -David Llewellyn andIan Woosnam win golf'sWorld Cup in Hawaii.
Rugby union
- Wales finish 4th in the1987 Five Nations Championship with just a single win, over England.
- Wales finish third, their best ever position, in the firstRugby World Cup.
- 5 April -Pontypool Park hosts the first international for theWales women's national rugby union team who lose 22–4 toEngland.^[26]
Skiing -Dry ski slope opened on theGreat Orme atLlandudno.

Births

9 January -Bradley Davies, rugby union player
21 January -Joe Ledley, footballer
24 January -Wayne Hennessey, footballer^[27]
14 February -Lee Selby, World champion boxer
24 March -Rob Davies, footballer
27 March -Adam Davies, footballer
April -Hannah Stone, harpist
8 May -Aneurin Barnard, actor^[28]
23 August -Alexandra Roach, actress
4 September -Mike O'Shea, cricketer
29 September -Claire Williams, athlete
21 October -Steph Davies, cricketer
30 November -Victoria Thornley, Olympic rower^[29]

Deaths

5 January -Brinley Williams, Wales dual-code rugby international, 91
21 January -Donald Holroyde Hey, chemist, 83^[30]
4 February -Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, writer and broadcaster, 78^[31]
7 March -E. D. Jones, librarian, 83^[32]
4 April -Richard Ithamar Aaron, philosopher, 85^[33]
13 April -Alfred Evans, Labour MP, 73^[34]
19 April -Stan Richards, footballer, 70
22 May -Keidrych Rhys, poet and editor^[35]
22 June -William Price, footballer, 83
20 August -Dorothy Rees, politician, 89^[36]
4 September -Richard Marquand, film director, 49 (stroke)^[37]
11 September -Hugh David, television director, 62
25 September -Emlyn Williams, dramatist and actor, 81^[38]
5 November -Howard Davies, rugby player, 70
date unknown -Clifford Williams, politician, Labour MP for Abertillery 1965–1970^[39]

See also

Notes

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^"The Right Rev George Noakes: Archbishop of Wales, 1987-1991". Times, The (London). 22 July 2008. Retrieved27 July 2008.{{cite news}}:|archive-url= is malformed: timestamp (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^"WJ Gruffydd: Writer who helped keep alive the Welsh tradition".The Independent. 20 July 2011. Retrieved11 May 2022.
^"Former Archdruid of Wales Emrys Roberts dies at 82". BBC News. 30 March 2012. Retrieved1 April 2012.
^R Brugge (1987). "Low daytime temperatures over England and Wales on 12 January 1987".Weather.42 (5):146–152.Bibcode:1987Wthr...42..146B.doi:10.1002/j.1477-8696.1987.tb06953.x.
^David Pepin (1994).Discovering Cathedrals. Shire Publications. p. 169.ISBN 978-0-7478-0173-3.
^Punch. January 1990. p. 124.
^"What a swell party this is ..And, by the way, we also elected a chancellor – The triumph of Roy Jenkins".The Times. 15 March 1987.
^Chris Bunting (16 April 2004)."Girl, 16, dies after roller-coaster fall".The Independent.Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved27 September 2019.
^Michael Thomas (8 May 1987). "Tories lose city control, but council hung".South Wales Echo. pp. 1–2.
^Wyke, Terry; Cocks, Harry (2004).Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester. Liverpool University Press. p. 457.ISBN 9780853235675. Retrieved15 April 2015.
^Byron Criddle (19 August 2005).The Almanac of British Politics. Routledge. p. 892.ISBN 978-1-134-49381-4.
^"File NLW ex 2596. - Ceremony of dedication : Mametz Wood memorial".National Library of Wales. Retrieved27 September 2019.
^Michael Levi (1999).Fraud: Organization, Motivation, and Control. Ashgate. p. 389.ISBN 978-1-85521-716-4.
^Report on the Collapse of Glanrhyd Bridge (1990), page 1
^"No. 51132".The London Gazette. 25 November 1987. p. 14513.
^Ivor Wynne Jones (2008).Llandudno: Queen of the Welsh Resorts. Landmark Publishing. p. 130.ISBN 978-1-84306-429-9.
^"Chris Loyn". Building Dream Homes (BBC). 19 April 2012. Retrieved27 September 2019.
^Steve Holland (3 March 2009).Sci-Fi Art: A Graphic History. HarperCollins. p. 71.ISBN 978-0-06-168489-0.
^Thomas Riggs (1996).Contemporary Poets. St. James Press. p. 1.ISBN 978-1-55862-191-6.
^Anthony Emery (1996).Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500: Volume 2, East Anglia, Central England and Wales. Cambridge University Press. p. 699.ISBN 978-0-521-58131-8.
^Ceri Davies (1995).Welsh Literature and the Classical Tradition. University of Wales Press.ISBN 978-0-7083-1321-3.
^Rhys Mwyn (2012).Cam O'r Tywyllwch (in Welsh). Y Lolfa.ISBN 9781847715821.
^"On The Black Hill (1987)".BFI Screenonline. Retrieved13 August 2018.
^"BBC Wales Sport Personality winners".BBC Sport. Retrieved2 August 2021.
^"Historic day for England Women's Rugby". rfu.com. 5 April 2012. Archived fromthe original on 2013-07-09. Retrieved6 January 2013.
^Hugman, Barry J., ed. (2009).The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2009–10. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing.ISBN 978-1-84596-474-0.
^"Aneurin Barnard".BBC Wales Arts. Retrieved17 December 2019.
^"Victoria Thornley".World Rowing. Retrieved17 December 2019.
^Cadogan, J. I. G.; Davies, D. I. (1988)."Donald Holroyde Hey. 12 September 1904-21 January 1987".Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society.34:294–320.doi:10.1098/rsbm.1988.0011.JSTOR 770054.
^Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died. A. & C. Black. 1981. p. 776.ISBN 978-0-7136-3336-8.
^Daniel Huws."Jones, Evan David (1903-1987), librarian and archivist".Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved27 September 2019.
^Jones, O. R. "Aaron, Richard Ithamar (1901–1987)".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/65645. (Subscription,Wikipedia Library access orUK public library membership required.)
^John Graham Jones."Evans, Alfred Thomas ('Fred' 'Menai') (1914—1987), Labour politician".Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved27 September 2019.
^Outposts. Outposts Publications. 1994.
^Chris Williams, ‘Rees , Dame Dorothy Mary (1898–1987)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011retrieved 10 January 2016
^Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror. Locus Press. 1987.ISBN 978-0-9616629-4-3.
^Krebs, Albin (September 26, 1987)."Emlyn Williams, Welsh Actor and Writer, Dies".The New York Times. Retrieved2016-10-18.
^John Graham Jones."Williams, Albert Clifford (1905—1987), Labour politician".Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved27 September 2019.

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