Events
- May
- Council for Wales and Monmouthshire first meets, with Huw T. Edwards as its first chairman.
- Dylan and Caitlin Thomas settle at the Boat House, Laugharne.
- 12 June - Britain’s first all-world Muslim conference is held in Cardiff.
- 21 September
- The first comprehensive school in Wales is opened in Holyhead, Anglesey.
- A meteorite falls through the roof of the Prince Llewelyn Hotel, Beddgelert.
- 4 November - Cwmbran is designated as the first New Town in Wales under powers of the New Towns Act 1946.
- 26 December - The Gwyn Nicholls memorial gates at Cardiff Arms Park are officially opened.
- Gwynfor Evans is elected to Merionethshire County Council.
- Closure of the granite quarry at Llanbedrog.
- Meteorologist David Brunt is knighted.
- Sale of Bron-y-garth, Porthmadog, ancestral home of Sir Lewis Casson.
- Urdd Gobaith Cymru holds its first "Celtic camp".
- Jack Jones spends three months in the USA promoting the Moral Re-Armament Movement.
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“The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.”
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