1982 in Wales - Events

Events

  • 2 January - The Welsh Army of Workers claims responsibility for a bomb explosion at the Birmingham headquarters of Severn Trent Water.
  • 2 June - 100,000 people gather in Pontcanna Fields, Cardiff, to welcome Pope John Paul II on the first-ever papal visit to Wales.
  • 8 June - 32 men from the Welsh Guards are killed when the Sir Galahad burns during the Falklands War. The most famous of the survivors is Simon Weston.
  • 16 June - Welsh miners go on strike to support health workers demanding a 12% pay rise.
  • 30 August - St David's Hall opens in Cardiff.
  • 11 September - 14 skydivers from Wales die when a Chinook helicopter crashes at an airshow in Mannheim in Germany.
  • 16 September - At the Gower by-election brought about by the death of Ifor Davies, Gareth Wardell holds the seat for Labour.
  • 17 October - First issue of Sulyn, the first Sunday newspaper in the Welsh language.
  • A monument is erected at Gresford in memory of those who died in the Gresford Disaster of 1934.
  • The Inmos microprocessor factory in Newport, Wales, designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership, is completed.
  • Swansea is given the right to have a Lord Mayor.

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