Events
- 5 January - Closure of the Swansea and Mumbles Railway (which by this date is operated by double-deck electric trams).
- 12 April - Nine miners are killed in a mining accident at Tower Colliery, Hirwaun.
- 28 June - Forty-five miners are killed in an accident at Six Bells Colliery, Monmouthshire.
- 6 August - At Llandaff Cathedral a service of thanksgiving attended by Queen Elizabeth II is held to mark the end of eleven years' restoration work following air raid damage in 1941.
- Esso opens the first oil refinery at Milford Haven.
- Poet and peace campaigner Waldo Williams is imprisoned for six weeks for non-payment of income tax.
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“All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who live, as they can or must, the events that arrive; the other is of people who live, as they intend, the events they create.”
—Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)