1st working laser built by Theodore Maiman in USA
32/34 Great Darkgate St,(where Welsh Calvinistic Methodists formed in 1823), is demolished, (now Supersave)
Soviets put 1st man into space - Yuri Gagarin
Soviet's detonate The Emperor a multistage hydrogen bomb. Even though it was scaled down to half yield for this test, at 50 megatons it remains the most powerful man made explosion.
British Chess Championships held in Aberystwyth.
Referendum results show that Ceredigion did not want to allow Sunday opening of pubs.
American spacecraft Mariner 2 - scanned Venus as it flew by.
Town Hall re-opened after rebuilding following the 1957 fire.[7]
'Welsh Language Society' formed and made its headquarters in Aberystwyth
Completion of the Physical Sciences Building on Penglias Campus (which would featured on a postage stamp from 1971. An innovative feature is the curved western face helping to heat the building by catching sun's rays at any time of day. (This innovation was made ineffective simply by placing the heating system's only thermostat in the rear part of the building which is always in the shade.)
Aberystwyth Lifeboat Centenary Celebrations
Severe winter - started 22nd of December and didn't ease up till the 3rd of March. Diesel froze in tractors.
Computer Mouse invented (cf The trackball of 1952)
Facade of Seilo rebuilt[7]
Serious flooding in Aberystwyth
Known as DB by the students, Davies Bryan Hall was opened on Penglais campus[17]
The first protest by the newly formed, Aberystwyth based, 'Welsh Language Society' was held on Trefechan bridge.
Rolling Stones play at the Kings Hall
Foundation stone of bronglais hospital is laid.
IBM announced the System/360: a range of computers that could all run the same software
Tourism has declined to such an extent that railway line to Carmarthen is closed.
Slaughterhouse closed
Known as AD by the students, Alban Davies Hall opened on Penglais campus[17]
Sports Hall opened on Penglais campus
College of Librarianship Wales opened in Llanbadarn Fawr
A Penzias and R Wilson are having trouble removing a hiss from their new radio telescope. This hiss turns out to be the after glow of the big bang, now having dimmed to just 3.5Kelvin.
American spacecraft Mariner 4 - scanned Mars as it flew by.
Llandinam building opened on Penglais campus
Rural science extension opened on Penglais campus
Ifor Evans Hall opened on Penglais campus[17]
New librarianship college opens
New Crown Building opens at Plas Crug
Soviet spacecraft Luna 9 becomes the 1st to land on (as opposed to crash into) the moon and the 1st to send images from the surface of anything other than earth
Soviet spacecraft Luna 10 starts to orbit the moon and becomes the 1st man made object to orbit anything other the the earth or the sun
Days of rain cause a landslide of the waste tip from the coal mine. 144 are killed including 116 children in the town school.
Workhouse demolished to make room for Bronglais Hospital
Patients are moved into the new Bronglais Hospital
'Welsh Language Act' permits Welsh to be used in legal proceedings and official documents
Botany extension opened on Penglais campus
Cwrt Mawr Hall opened on Penglais campus[17]
Aberystwyth hosts the international tiddledywinks championship - With Wales playing Finland
Floods hit Aberystwyth
Soviet spacecraft Zond 5 becomes the 1st to go outside earth's orbit and return to earth
American spacecraft Apollo 8 enters the moon's orbit and the crew become the people to orbit anything other than earth or sun
Harlech (HTV) took over the franchise to produce local programs for the region from TWW (Television Wales & the West).
Prime Minister Harold Wilson visits Aberystwyth to addresses the agricultural workers conference being held at the Kings Hall
Students protest against Pantycelyn becoming a Welsh language hall, claiming it to be an example of apartheid
Referendum results show that Ceredigion did not want to allow Sunday opening of pubs.
Plascrug primary school opened [7]
Prince Charles spends the summer term leaning Welsh at the University
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Investiture of Charles Windsor as Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle.
America put 1st men on moon - Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin
Britain sends troops to Northern Ireland when sectarian rioting starts
The first 2 computers (One at the University of California, Los Angeles and the other at Stanford Research Institute) on what would eventually become the internet are connected. Ealier experiements achieved one-to-one communication to remote teminals over fixed connections but by using 'packet switching/routing' this system would allow computers to 'talk' to several other computers.
Fleetwood Mac play at the Union Ball held in the Kings Hall
Part of the Soviet's Luna 17 mission was Lunokhod 1 the 1st roving vehicle roam over anything other the earth.
Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 becomes the 1st to land on another planet
Aberystwyth university physics professor Phil Williams becomes the 1st chairman of Plaid Cymru - a post he held till 1976
Botany extension opened on Penglais campus
Great Hall completed on Penglais campus
1st part of Students Union opened on Penglais campus[17]
4004 credited as the 1st single chip microprocessor
Creeper - 1st computer virus
The Soviet Union launch Salyut 1 which becomes the 1st space station
American spacecraft Mariner 9 becomes the 1st to orbit another planet
The lander part of the Soviet spacecraft Mars 2 malfunctioned during descent through the Martian atmosphere. Though failing to be a lander is was th 1st man made object to reach the Martian surface
The lander part of the Soviet spacecraft Mars 3 made it to the surface of Mars, but only functioned long enough to send a partial image
Great Hall officially opened on Penglais campus
Welsh Agricultural College opens in Llanbadarn
During miners strike energy supplies drop to the point where industry drops to a 3 day working week and domestic supplies are cut off part of the day.
An image was created by Paul Lauterbur using a strong magnetic field to 'excite' a sample and another field to help isolate the view to a small spot in the sample. By building up rows of spots into sheets a 2 dimensional slice can be seen through the body which includes soft tissue detail. This non-invasive technique is now called MRI
American spacecraft Pioneer 10 - scanned Jupiter as it flew by
Ardwyn Grammar School (opened in 1896 as Aberystwyth County School) and Dinas Secondary Modern schools close. Penglais (English medium) and Penweddig (bilingual) Comprehensive schools open
Led Zeppelin play at the Kings Hall
United kingdom admitted in to the EEC
American spacecraft Mariner 10 - scanned Mercury as it flew by.
Chinese farmers find the Terracotta Army (over 8000 life-sized clay soldiers) guarding the tomb of Emperor Qin.
The county of Dyfed is created from Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire only to be broken up into three unitary authorities in 1996.
Thin Lizzy play at the University
The MITS Altair is credited as the 1st, production home computer
Soviet's Venera 9 becomes the 1st spacecraft to orbit Venus
Referendum results show that Ceredigion did not want to allow Sunday opening of pubs.
The cinema on Bath Street (over the years named: Imperial, Forum and Celtic) is opened in a new building, on the same site, now calling itself the Commodore
Although only about 10 working prototypes were ever made the Xerox NoteTaker credited as the 1st portable computer.
The Ceredigion Museum opens. The 1904 building was originally an entertainments hall and arcade, becoming a cinema in 1931.
Serious flooding in Aberystwyth
Police Station at the bottom of Gt Darkgate Street demolished [18]
DEC sent out an e-mail inviting many people to a demo of the new DEC-20 computer. This is regarded and the 1st piece of spam
1st optical disks go on sale. This Laserdisk technology will be refined into CD-ROMs and DVDs
Launched in 1973, American spacecraft Pioneer 11 - scanned Saturn as it flew by.
After 3 decades of global vaccination smallpox is finally declared eradicated.