The Decline of The Docks
1916: Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff, Cardiff.
1923: The BBC began broadcasting from studios in Castle Street.
1927: Cardiff City beat Arsenal 1-0 to win the FA Cup.
1930: Cardiff Round Table, local branch of Round Table Britain & Ireland, is founded, being the 26th Table in the organisation
1931: Cardiff Municipal Airport was opened on Pengam Moors
1932: The first miners' hunger march to start in Cardiff, left for London to protest about unemployment.
1935: The first RAC Welsh Rally started from Cardiff.
1937: Shirley Bassey was born in Tiger Bay, Cardiff.
1939: Billy the Seal died.
1941: The heaviest German Luftwaffe raid of World War II, the Cardiff Blitz, occurred when 156 people were killed.
1946: Welsh National Opera put on its first staged productions at the Prince of Wales Theatre.
1947: The Bute family gave Cardiff Castle to the city.
1948: Welsh Folk Museum was opened at St. Fagans.
1952: The last execution took place in Cardiff Prison. Mahmood Hussein Mattan was hanged for murder, but his conviction was quashed in 1998.
1954: Cardiff Airport moved from Pengam Moors to its current home in Rhoose
1955: Cardiff was officially recognised as the capital city of Wales.
1956: Cardiff ceased being a fishing port after 70 years.
1958: The British Empire and Commonwealth Games opened at Cardiff Arms Park in Cardiff.
1959: The movie Tiger Bay was released. It was partly shot in Cardiff.
1961: Public houses in Cardiff were allowed to open for the first time on Sundays since the 1880s.
1963: The Rover car factory was opened.
1964: West Bute Dock closed with the last shipment of coal, just 229,000 tons, left the docks.
1966: The Heath Hospital was officially opened.
1967: Glamorgan County Cricket Club play their first game at Sophia Gardens, having moved from Cardiff Arms Park.
1970: Bute East Dock was closed.
1971: The National Sports Centre for Wales opened in Sophia Gardens.
1973: John Desmond Brayley MC DL was nominated for a peerage as Baron Brayley of the City of Cardiff and County Glamorgan
1974: South Glamorgan was established as part of the local government reorganisation. Cardiff lost the independent County Borough status it had since 1889.
1976: James Callaghan MP for Cardiff became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1980: The M4 motorway to the north of the city was opened.
1982: S4C, the Welsh-language television channel was established.
1983: BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition was launched.
1984: The National Stadium at Cardiff Arms Park was opened.
1986: Wales National Ice Rink was opened and the Cardiff Devils ice hockey team established.
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