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2008 Alun Hoddinott, dies in Wales, at 78
1997 Diana Spencer, princess of Wales, dies in car crash in Paris at 36 1996 4th Solheim Cup: U.S. beats Europe 17-11 at St. Pierre Wales 1995 Dave Bowen, born in Maesteg, Glamorgan, Wales, Welsh football player, manager, captain, led country to win 1958 World Cup finals, dies at 67 1993 New South Wales beat Qld by eight wkts to win Sheffield Shield 1993 44th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 16-6 at Montreal 1992 43rd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 10-6 at Philadelphia 1991 42nd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 11-5 at Chicago 1990 Steve Briers of Wales recited the entire lyrics of Queen's album "A Night At The Opera" in 9 minutes and 58.44 seconds backwards! 1990 41st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 12-7 at Pittsburgh 1989 Mark Merrony (Wales) cycles for 30 minutes in Nepal at 21,030 feet 1989 40th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-5 at Edmonton 1989 Princess Diane of Wales visits New York City 1988 39th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-5 (OT) at St. Louis 1986 38th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 (OT) at Hartford 1985 37th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-4 at Calgary 1984 Henry Charles Albert David, Prince of Wales, 3rd in British succession 1984 36th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-6 at NJ 1983 35th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-3 at New York Islander 1982 William of Wales, son of Prince Chuck and Lady Di 1982 34th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-2 at Washington 1981 33rd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 4-1 at LA 1980 32nd NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-3 at Detroit 1979 Rainbow seen in Northern Wales for a 3 hours duration 1978 31st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 3-2 (OT) at Buffalo 1977 30th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 at Vancouver 1976 29th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-5 at Philadelphia 1975 28th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-1 at Montreal 1974 Monmouthshire renamed Gwent and becomes part of Wales 1974 Christian Bale, Wales, actor, Empire of the Sun, Little Women 1969 Catherine Zeta Jones, Swansea Wales, actress, Christopher Columbus 1969 Charles Philip Arthur George invested as Prince of Wales 1968 Rhys Ifans, born in Haverfordwest, Wales, actor, singer, movie roles include 'Spike', 'Notting Hill', 'Vladis Grutas', 'Hannibal Rising' 1967 Beatles go to Wales to study TM with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 1967 Roger Babson, entrepreneur, business theorist, attended MIT, predicted Wall Street Crash of 1929, published Babson's Reports, oldest investment newsletter in U.S., dies at age 91, in Lake Wales, Florida 1967 Colin Jackson, Cardiff, Wales, 100m hurdler 1988 Olympics silver 1966 144 die as a coal waste landslide engulfed a school in Aberfan S Wales 1966 Jimmy Wales, American Businessman 1965 Beatles last Great Britain concert (Capitol Theatre in Cardiff Wales) 1965 Karen Davies, Wrexham N Wales, golfer, 1991 PING-Cellular One-6th 1964 Annabel Schofield, Llanelli, Wales, actress, Laurel Ellis-Dallas 1964 Helen Wadsworth, born in Wales, golfer, Curtis Cup 1990 1961 Ian Rush, born in St. Asaph, Wales, soccer player, footballer, striker, played with Liverpool FC, Welsh national football team 1961 Diana Frances Spencer, Sandringham England, Princess of Wales, -97 1961 William Hague, Secretary of State for Wales 1960 Ian Hislop, born in Mumbles, Wales, writer, editor, Private Eye magazine, broadcaster, radio, television, team captain on BBC's 'Have I Got News for You' 1958 Great Britain issues regional stamps for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales 1957 Karl Wallingher, Prestatyn Wales, rocker, World Party 1951 Snowdonia becomes a National Park in Wales 1951 Trevor Eve, Wales, actor, Shadow Chasers 1951 Geraint Wyn Davies, born in Wales, actor, Bury Me in Niagara, High Hopes 1950 Mary Hopkin, South Wales, singer, Those Were the Days 1949 Andrew Scott, Wales, rock guitarist, Sweet 1949 Ken Follet, born in Cardiff, Wales, author, sold over 100 million copies of books including 'The Key to Rebecca', 'World Without End' 1949 Mike Gibbons, born in Swansea, Wales, rock drummer, Badfinger 1949 Chick Churchill, Wales, keyboardist, Ten Years After-I'm Going Home 1948 Charles PAG, prince of Wales/duke of Cornwall 1948 Peter Wingfield, Wales, rocker/actor, Methos-Highlander 1948 Shakin' Stevens, Mike Barrett, Wales, rocker, You Drive Me Crazy 1947 Jonathan Pryce, North Wales, stage actor, Miss Saigon 1947 Pete Ham, born in Swansea, Wales, rock vocalist, Badfinger-Come and Get It 1946 Anne Boyd, born in Sydney, New South Wales, composer, professor of composition at the University of Sydney, recipient, Order of Australia, for contributions to music 1946 Timothy Dalton, born in North Wales, actor, James Bond-Living Daylights 1944 Dave Edmunds, born in Wales, singer/guitarist, Rockpile-Baby I Love You 1944 Hywel Bennett, born in South Wales, actor, Family Way, Shelley 1943 Alun Michael, born in Bryngwran, Anglesey, politician, Labor Co-operative party, 1st Secretary for Wales 1999 - 2000 1943 Win Griffiths, born in Wales, born Winston James Griffiths, politician, Labor Party, served as Member of Parliament for Bridgend, member of the European Parliament, Chairman of Bro Margannwg NHS Trust 1942 David Hunt, Wales Secretary of State 1942 Lynn Davies, born in Nantymoel, Wales, 'Lynn the Leap', long jumper, captain, Britain's Olympic long jump team 1964, won Olympic gold medal 1942 Neil Kinnock, Wales, leader, Labour Party 1942 John Cale, born in Wales, rock vocalist/keyboardist, Velvet Underground 1942 Terry Jones, Colwyn Bay North Wales, comedian, Monty Python 1941 British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore 1941 Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to U.S. 1941 Margaret Price, Tredegar Wales, soprano, Pamlina-Die Zauberflote 1940 John Dawes, born in Chapel of Ease, Wales, rugby union player, rugby coach, captain for The Barbarians, British and Irish Lions, Wales 1940 W. H. Davies, Wales, poet, writer, related to actor, Sir Henry Irving, cared for by paternal grandparents, wrote, 'The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp', dies 1940 Tom Jones, born in Pontypridd, Wales, singer, What's New Pussycat 1939 Spencer Davis, born in Wales, vocalist, Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin 1939 Robert Tear, born in Barry, Wales, tenor, Welsh National Opera 1970 1938 Keith Peters, born in Baglan, Wales, physician, head of the School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge 1937 Anthony Hopkins, born in Wales, actor, Elephant Man, QB VII, Magic, Bounty 1937 Christopher Rose, born in England, Lord Justice Rose, Sir Christopher Rose, judge, member, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, served Court of Appeal of England and Wales 1937 Shirley Bassey, Cardiff Wales, singer, Goldfinger, Moonraker 1936 Gwyneth Jones, Pontnewyndd Wales, soprano, Die Walkure 1935 Paul Flynn, born in Cardiff, Wales, born Paul Philip Flynn, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Newport West 1934 Roger Nicholas Edwards, born in England, born Roger Nicholas Edwards, Lord Crickhowell, Baron Crickhowell, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire, Secretary of State for Wales 1933 Keith Baxter, born in South Wales, actor, Barretts at Wimpole Street 1933 John A. Llewellyn, born in Cardiff, Wales, astronaut 1931 Leslie Thomas, born in Newport, Wales, author, published 'In My Wildest Dreams', recounting childhood in South Wales, in early life, wrote columns for London Evening News newspaper 1929 Alun Hoddinott, born in Wales, composer, lecturer, co-founded and directed the Cardiff Festival 1928 Geraint Gruffydd, director, University of Wales Centre for Welsh Studies 1928 Dave Bowen, born in Maesteg, Glamorgan, Wales, Welsh football player, manager, captain, led country to win 1958 World Cup finals 1927 Rachel Roberts, born in Llanelly, Wales, actress, Foul Play, Doctor's Wife 1927 Stanley Baker, Ferndale Wales, actor, Concrete Jungle, Zorro, Zulu 1926 Peggy Cummins, North Wales, actress, Curse of the Demon 1926 Rayner Goddard, born in England, Lord Goddard, Baron Goddard, judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, known for his strict conservative rulings 1925 Alun Owen, North Wales, writer, Hard Days Night, actor, Servant 1925 Richard Burton, born in South Wales, actor, Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf 1925 Roy Hughes, born in Pontllanfraith, Wales, born Royston John Hughes, Baron Islwyn, politician, Labor Party, union organizer, Member of Parliament for Newport, Member of Parliament for Newport East 1921 Harry Secombe, Swansea, Wales, actor, Down Among the "Z" Men 1920 Dick Francis, Wales, jockey/detective writer, Whip Hand, High Stakes 1920 Harri Webb, Swansea, Wales, journalist, nationalist, poet, volunteered for the Royal Navy, published The Green Desert, a collection of poetry in 1969, Poems and Points in 1983 1920 Church disforms in Wales 1916 Roden Cutler, Governor, New South Wales 1915 David Jenklins, librarian, National Library of Wales 1914 Dylan Thomas, Swansea Wales, poet, Child's Christmas in Wales 1913 Explosion and fire in Universal Coal Mine, South Wales 1912 Daniel Jones, born in Pembroke, Wales, Daniel Jenkyn Jones, Welsh composer, friend of Dylan Thomas, wrote 12 numbered symphonies, chamber music, made Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1968 1912 Edgar Evans, born in Cardiganshire, Wales, tenor, singer, founder of Covent Garden Opera Company, performed more than 45 roles 1912 Hugh Griffith, Wales, actor, Ben Hur, Mutiny on the Bounty, Oliver! 1909 Arwel Hughes, born in Wales, composer, choral and orchestral music conductor, composer, organist, studied with Ralph Vaughan Williams at Royal College of Music, known for large-scale oratorios Saint David and Pantycelyn 1909 Alec Templeton, Cardiff Wales, pianist/composer, Concertino Lirico 1906 Richard Llewellyn, Wales, novelist, How Green Was My Valley 1906 Roger Livesey, born in Barry, Wales, actor, Drums, Life and Death of Col Blimp 1905 George Emlyn Williams, Wales, actor and playwright, David Copperfield 1905 Ray Milland, born in Neath, Wales, actor, Lost Weekend-Academy Award 1945 1901 Naunton Wayne, Wales, actor, Quartet, Hidden Room, Double Confession 1900 David Wynne, born in Penderyn, Wales, composer, studied at University of Wales, Cardiff, University of Bristol, Head of Music, Lewis School Pengam, professor of composition, Cardiff College of Music and Drama 1900 Attempted assassination of Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails 1900 Assassination attempt on prince of Wales/king Edward VII 1897 Rhys Williams, Wales, actor, Nightmare, Okinawa, Cross My Heart 1894 Gareth Hughes, Llanelly Wales, actor, Midnight Girl 1893 Ivor Novello, born in Cardiff, Wales, actor, Lodger, Phantom Fiend 1890 Prince of Wales opens 1st underground (Station Stockwell, London) 1883 E E Clive, Monmouthshire Wales, actor, Night Must Fall, Dark Hour 1880 Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England and Wales, is founded in Oxford, England 1875 T F Powys, Wales, writer, Captain Patch, Goat Green 1875 Edmund Gwenn, Wales, actor, Miracle on 34th Street 1872 World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales 1871 W. H. Davies, born in Newport, Monmouthsire, Wales, poet, writer, related to actor, Sir Henry Irving, cared for by paternal grandparents, wrote, 'The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp' 1867 Frank Brangwyn, Wales, painter/muralist/cartoonist, Willam Morris 1863 Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia 1860 1st British royalty to visit U.S., Prince of Wales (King Edward VII) 1839 Henry Clarence Kendall, New South Wales Australia, poet, Bell Birds 1804 1st locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for 1st time, in Wales 1788 Captain Arthur Phillip hoists English flag on Botany Bay, New South Wales 1778 Captain Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits 1771 Augusta von Saxen-Gotha, German prince Frederick Louis of Wales, dies 1770 Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales 1751 Frederick Louis, English prince of Wales/son of George I, dies 1738 Arthur Phillip, admiral/1st governor New-South Wales 1737 Prince Frederick of Wales escapes English court 1707 England, Wales and Scotland form U.K. of Great Britain 1649 Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II 1503 Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII) 1376 "Black Prince" of Wales, son of King Edward of England, dies at 46 1330 Edward, the black prince, prince of Wales, 1343-1376 1301 Edward of Caernarion (later Edward II) becomes 1st prince of Wales 1282 Llywelyn ab Gruffydd, monarch of North Wales (1246-77), dies 1240 Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of Wales, dies 1240 Llywelyn ab Iorwerth the Great, monarch of Wales (1194-1240), dies 40 Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general; conquered Wales, No England |
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