1930 in Wales - Events

Events

  • 24 December - in London, Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his device to project pictures to the clouds.
  • The South Wales Daily Post is launched in Swansea.
  • The Crumlin branch of the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal is closed.
  • The Three Valleys Festival is launched.
  • The first youth hostel of the Youth Hostels Association, the first in the UK, is opened at Pennant Hall in the Conwy valley near Llanrwst.
  • A. H. Dodd succeeds Sir John Edward Lloyd as Professor of History at University of Wales, Bangor.
  • Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones becomes Foreign Affairs Secretary to David Lloyd George.
  • John Edward Jones becomes Secretary of Plaid Cymru.
  • Thomas Lewis becomes first chairman of the Medical Research Society.

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