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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