1960s 1969 in Wales - Investiture of Charles, Prince of Wales 1968 in Wales - First bilingual postage stamp 1967 in Wales - Welsh Language Act 1967 1966 in Wales - Aberfan disaster 1965 in Wales - Bryn Terfel born 1964 in Wales - The Welsh Office is established 1963 in Wales - First protest by Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg 1962 in Wales - Opening of Llanwern steelworks 1961 in Wales - Atlantic College founded 1960 in Wales - Ricky Valance becomes the first male Welsh singer to reach no.1 in the charts 1950s 1959 in Wales - Welsh flag given official status 1958 in Wales - Last execution in Wales 1957 in Wales - Passing of the Tryweryn Bill 1956 in Wales - First Welsh-medium secondary school 1955 in Wales - Cardiff becomes official capital 1954 in Wales - Opening of Cardiff Wales Airport 1953 in Wales - Queen Elizabeth II makes her first official visit to Wales as queen 1952 in Wales - Wenvoe television transmitter comes into service 1951 in Wales - Death of Ivor Novello 1950 in Wales - Dylan Thomas makes his first visit to America 1940s 1949 in Wales - Dylan Thomas settles at the Boat House in Laugharne. 1948 in Wales - Aneurin Bevan brings in the Acts of Parliament that create the welfare state 1947 in Wales - Wreck of the Samtampa 1946 in Wales - Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1945 in Wales - Lloyd George is created an earl 1944 in Wales - Grace Williams writes Sea Sketches 1943 in Wales - Welsh National Opera is founded 1942 in Wales - Welsh Courts Act 1941 in Wales - How Green Was My Valley is filmed 1940 in Wales - The song We'll Keep a Welcome is first performed 1930s 1939 in Wales - The first wartime evacuees arrive in Wales 1938 in Wales - The Temple of Peace is opened in Cathays Park, Cardiff 1937 in Wales - Tommy Farr fights Joe Louis 1936 in Wales - Saunders Lewis and others are imprisoned for their sabotage attack on Penrhos aerodrome 1935 in Wales - Felinfoel Brewery starts selling canned beer 1934 in Wales - 265 miners are killed in the Gresford mining accident 1933 in Wales - Amy Johnson takes off from Pendine 1932 in Wales - Frank Brangwyn completes the Empire Panels 1931 in Wales - The Welsh School of