Events
- 14-19 January - A storm causes extensive damage in Aberystwyth; the promenade and pier are largely destroyed by 90 mph winds.
- 8 May - William Ormsby-Gore succeeds his father as Baron Harlech.
- October - The first scheduled night flight in the UK begins operating between Cardiff and Weston-super-Mare.
- November - Completion of the Temple of Peace and Health in Cathays Park, Cardiff.
- Excavation of Llantwit Major Roman Villa, by V. E. Nash-Williams, begins (continues to 1948).
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire—thinner than the paper on which it is printed—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden into history, it is the stories we didn’t write, the questions we didn’t ask that prove far, far more damaging than the ones we did.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)