2013 Event Major bushfires that have endangered lives and destroyed homes cause Barry O'Farrell, the Premier of Australia's New South Wales to declare a state of emergency 2013 Event Sydney, Australia welcomes Harry, the Prince of Wales, who has come to celebrate 100 years of the Royal Australian Navy 2013 Event The upper house of the U.K. approves of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill; starting in 2014, gay marriage will be allowed in England and Wales 2013 Event In the House of Commons, MP's approve of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, advancing the right for gay marriage in England and Wales 2012 Event Heavy rain and high winds across England and Wales kill two people and flood 800 homes 2012 Event The British government grants Wales limited powers to borrow money for financing major projects 2011 Event The New South Wales boat 'Loki' is proclaimed the winner of the 2011 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race 2011 Event The cargo ship MV Swanland sinks off of north wales due to gale force weather, with two of eight crew members are rescued 2011 Event Wales conducts a survey of businesspeople and consumers showing support for the country to have its own top-level domain name 2011 Event In Auckland, New Zealand, France defeats Wales 9-8 in the 2011 Rugby World Cup 2011 Event Prince Harry of Wales is cleared to return to service in the Afghan War 2011 Event New South Wales swears in its new Premier, Barry O'Farrell, following its state election 2011 Event Speaking in Cardiff, Wales, David Cameron, Prime Minister of the U.K., declares war on 'enemies of enterprise' 2010 Event Floodwaters rise throughout New South Wales; they cause thousands to evacuate the Australian town of Wagga Wagga 2010 Event University students in England and Wales protest the government's plan to increase tuition fees and make higher education funding cuts 2008 Death Alun Hoddinott, dies in Wales, at 78 1997 Death Diana, Princess of Wales, first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, mother of Princes William and Harry, noted for philanthropy, dies in Paris, at age 36, killed in a car crash 1996 Event 4th Solheim Cup: U.S. beats Europe 17-11 at St. Pierre Wales 1995 Death Dave Bowen, born in Maesteg, Glamorgan, Wales, Welsh football player, manager, captain, led country to win 1958 World Cup finals, dies at 67 1993 Event New South Wales beat Qld by eight wkts to win Sheffield Shield 1993 Event 44th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 16-6 at Montreal 1992 Event 43rd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 10-6 at Philadelphia 1991 Event 42nd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 11-5 at Chicago 1990 Event 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 Event 41st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 12-7 at Pittsburgh 1989 Event Mark Merrony (Wales) cycles for 30 minutes in Nepal at 21,030 feet 1989 Event 40th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-5 at Edmonton 1989 Event Princess Diane of Wales visits New York City 1988 Event 39th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-5 (OT) at St. Louis 1986 Birthday Charlotte Church, born in Cardiff, Wales, singer, songwriter, actress, classical crossover singer, host of 'The Charlotte Church Show', worth $20 million pounds 1986 Event 38th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 (OT) at Hartford 1985 Event 37th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-4 at Calgary 1984 Birthday Henry Charles Albert David, Prince of Wales, 3rd in British succession 1984 Event 36th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-6 at New Jersey 1983 Event 35th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-3 at New York Islander 1982 Birthday Ian Thorpe, born in Sydney, New South Wales, professional swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, won 11 World Championship gold medals, nicknamed, 'Torpedo' 1982 Birthday William of Wales, son of Prince Chuck and Lady Di 1982 Event 34th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-2 at Washington 1981 Event 33rd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 4-1 at LA 1980 Event 32nd NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-3 at Detroit 1979 Event Rainbow seen in Northern Wales for a 3 hours duration 1978 Event 31st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 3-2 (OT) at Buffalo 1977 Event 30th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 at Vancouver 1976 Event 29th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-5 at Philadelphia 1975 Event 28th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-1 at Montreal 1974 Event Monmouthshire renamed Gwent and becomes part of Wales 1974 Birthday Christian Bale, Wales, actor, Empire of the Sun, Little Women 1969 Birthday Catherine Zeta Jones, Swansea Wales, actress, Christopher Columbus 1969 Event Charles Philip Arthur George invested as Prince of Wales 1968 Birthday Rhys Ifans, born in Haverfordwest, Wales, actor, singer, movie roles include 'Spike', 'Notting Hill', 'Vladis Grutas', 'Hannibal Rising' 1967 Event Beatles go to Wales to study TM with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 1967 Death 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 Birthday Colin Jackson, Cardiff, Wales, 100m hurdler 1988 Olympics silver 1966 Event 144 die as a coal waste landslide engulfed a school in Aberfan S Wales 1966 Birthday Jimmy Wales, American Businessman 1965 Event Beatles last Great Britain concert (Capitol Theatre in Cardiff Wales) 1965 Birthday Karen Davies, Wrexham N Wales, golfer, 1991 PING-Cellular One-6th 1964 Birthday Annabel Schofield, Llanelli, Wales, actress, Laurel Ellis-Dallas 1964 Birthday Helen Wadsworth, born in Wales, golfer, Curtis Cup 1990 1961 Birthday Ian Rush, born in St. Asaph, Wales, soccer player, footballer, striker, played with Liverpool FC, Welsh national football team 1961 Birthday Diana, Princess of Wales, born in Park House, England, first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, mother of Princes William and Harry, noted for philanthropy 1961 Birthday William Hague, Secretary of State for Wales 1960 Birthday 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 Birthday Anneka Rice, born in Cowbridge, Wales, born Anne Rice, television hostess, ITV's cooking show, 'Sunday Feast', author, star in 'The Vagina Monologues' 1958 Event Great Britain issues regional stamps for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales 1957 Birthday Karl Wallingher, Prestatyn Wales, rocker, World Party 1957 Birthday Gwyn Evans, born in Maesteg, Wales, professional rugby player, played for Maesteg RFC, Barbarian FC, toured with the British and Irish Lions 1951 Birthday Graham Price, born in Moascar, Egypt, rugby player, prop forward, debuted for Wales in 1975, won 41 caps for Wales 1951 Event Snowdonia becomes a National Park in Wales 1951 Birthday Trevor Eve, Wales, actor, Shadow Chasers 1951 Birthday Geraint Wyn Davies, born in Wales, actor, Bury Me in Niagara, High Hopes 1950 Birthday Mary Hopkin, South Wales, singer, Those Were the Days 1949 Birthday Andrew Scott, Wales, rock guitarist, Sweet 1949 Birthday Ken Follet, born in Cardiff, Wales, author, sold over 100 million copies of books including 'The Key to Rebecca', 'World Without End' 1949 Birthday Mike Gibbons, born in Swansea, Wales, rock drummer, Badfinger 1949 Birthday Chick Churchill, Wales, keyboardist, Ten Years After-I'm Going Home 1948 Birthday Charles PAG, prince of Wales/duke of Cornwall 1948 Birthday Peter Wingfield, Wales, rocker/actor, Methos-Highlander 1948 Birthday Shakin' Stevens, Mike Barrett, Wales, rocker, You Drive Me Crazy 1947 Birthday Jonathan Pryce, North Wales, stage actor, Miss Saigon 1947 Birthday Pete Ham, born in Swansea, Wales, rock vocalist, Badfinger-Come and Get It 1946 Birthday 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 Birthday Timothy Dalton, born in North Wales, actor, James Bond-Living Daylights 1944 Birthday Dave Edmunds, born in Wales, singer/guitarist, Rockpile-Baby I Love You 1944 Birthday Hywel Bennett, born in South Wales, actor, Family Way, Shelley 1943 Birthday Alun Michael, born in Bryngwran, Anglesey, politician, Labor Co-operative party, 1st Secretary for Wales 1999 - 2000 1943 Birthday 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 Birthday David Hunt, Wales Secretary of State 1942 Birthday Lynn Davies, born in Nantymoel, Wales, 'Lynn the Leap', long jumper, captain, Britain's Olympic long jump team 1964, won Olympic gold medal 1942 Birthday Neil Kinnock, Wales, leader, Labour Party 1942 Birthday John Cale, born in Wales, rock vocalist/keyboardist, Velvet Underground 1942 Birthday Terry Jones, Colwyn Bay North Wales, comedian, Monty Python 1941 Event British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore 1941 Event Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to U.S. 1941 Birthday Margaret Price, Tredegar Wales, soprano, Pamlina-Die Zauberflote 1940 Birthday John Dawes, born in Chapel of Ease, Wales, rugby union player, rugby coach, captain for The Barbarians, British and Irish Lions, Wales 1940 Death 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 Birthday Tom Jones, born in Pontypridd, Wales, singer, What's New Pussycat 1939 Birthday Spencer Davis, born in Wales, vocalist, Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin 1939 Birthday Robert Tear, born in Barry, Wales, tenor, Welsh National Opera 1970 1938 Birthday Keith Peters, born in Baglan, Wales, physician, head of the School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge 1937 Birthday Anthony Hopkins, born in Wales, actor, Elephant Man, QB VII, Magic, Bounty 1937 Birthday 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 Birthday Shirley Bassey, Cardiff Wales, singer, Goldfinger, Moonraker 1936 Birthday Gwyneth Jones, Pontnewyndd Wales, soprano, Die Walkure 1935 Birthday Paul Flynn, born in Cardiff, Wales, born Paul Philip Flynn, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Newport West 1934 Birthday 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 Birthday Keith Baxter, born in South Wales, actor, Barretts at Wimpole Street 1933 Birthday John A. Llewellyn, born in Cardiff, Wales, astronaut 1931 Birthday 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 Birthday Alun Hoddinott, born in Wales, composer, lecturer, co-founded and directed the Cardiff Festival 1928 Birthday Geraint Gruffydd, director, University of Wales Centre for Welsh Studies 1928 Birthday Dave Bowen, born in Maesteg, Glamorgan, Wales, Welsh football player, manager, captain, led country to win 1958 World Cup finals 1927 Birthday Rachel Roberts, born in Llanelly, Wales, actress, Foul Play, Doctor's Wife 1927 Birthday Stanley Baker, Ferndale Wales, actor, Concrete Jungle, Zorro, Zulu 1926 Birthday Peggy Cummins, North Wales, actress, Curse of the Demon 1926 Birthday Rayner Goddard, born in England, Lord Goddard, Baron Goddard, judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, known for his strict conservative rulings 1925 Birthday Alun Owen, North Wales, writer, Hard Days Night, actor, Servant 1925 Birthday Richard Burton, born in South Wales, actor, Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf 1925 Birthday 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 Birthday Harry Secombe, Swansea, Wales, actor, Down Among the "Z" Men 1920 Birthday Dick Francis, Wales, jockey/detective writer, Whip Hand, High Stakes 1920 Birthday 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 Event Church disforms in Wales 1916 Birthday Roden Cutler, Governor, New South Wales 1915 Birthday David Jenklins, librarian, National Library of Wales 1914 Birthday Dylan Thomas, born in Swansea, Wales, poet, Child's Christmas in Wales 1913 Event Explosion and fire in Universal Coal Mine, South Wales 1912 Birthday 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 Birthday Edgar Evans, born in Cardiganshire, Wales, tenor, singer, founder of Covent Garden Opera Company, performed more than 45 roles 1912 Birthday Hugh Griffith, Wales, actor, Ben Hur, Mutiny on the Bounty, Oliver! 1909 Birthday 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 Birthday Alec Templeton, Cardiff Wales, pianist/composer, Concertino Lirico 1906 Birthday Richard Llewellyn, Wales, novelist, How Green Was My Valley 1906 Birthday Roger Livesey, born in Barry, Wales, actor, Drums, Life and Death of Col Blimp 1905 Birthday George Emlyn Williams, Wales, actor and playwright, David Copperfield 1905 Birthday Ray Milland, born in Neath, Wales, actor, Lost Weekend-Academy Award 1945 1901 Birthday Naunton Wayne, Wales, actor, Quartet, Hidden Room, Double Confession 1900 Birthday 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 Event Attempted assassination of Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails 1900 Event Assassination attempt on prince of Wales/king Edward VII 1897 Birthday Rhys Williams, Wales, actor, Nightmare, Okinawa, Cross My Heart 1894 Birthday Gareth Hughes, Llanelly Wales, actor, Midnight Girl 1893 Birthday Ivor Novello, born in Cardiff, Wales, actor, Lodger, Phantom Fiend 1890 Event Prince of Wales opens 1st underground (Station Stockwell, London) 1883 Birthday E E Clive, Monmouthshire Wales, actor, Night Must Fall, Dark Hour 1880 Event Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England and Wales, is founded in Oxford, England 1875 Birthday T F Powys, Wales, writer, Captain Patch, Goat Green 1875 Birthday Edmund Gwenn, Wales, actor, Miracle on 34th Street 1872 Event World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales 1871 Birthday 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 Birthday Frank Brangwyn, Wales, painter/muralist/cartoonist, Willam Morris 1863 Event Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia 1860 Event 1st British royalty to visit U.S., Prince of Wales (King Edward VII) 1839 Birthday Henry Clarence Kendall, New South Wales Australia, poet, Bell Birds 1804 Event 1st locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for 1st time, in Wales 1788 Event Captain Arthur Phillip hoists English flag on Port Jackson, New South Wales 1778 Event Captain Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits 1771 Death Augusta von Saxen-Gotha, German prince Frederick Louis of Wales, dies 1770 Event Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales 1751 Death Frederick Louis, English prince of Wales/son of George I, dies 1738 Birthday Arthur Phillip, admiral/1st governor New-South Wales 1737 Event Prince Frederick of Wales escapes English court 1707 Event England, Wales and Scotland form U.K. of Great Britain 1649 Event Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II 1503 Event Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII) 1376 Death "Black Prince" of Wales, son of King Edward of England, dies at 46 1330 Birthday Edward, the black prince, prince of Wales, 1343-1376 1301 Event Edward of Caernarion (later Edward II) becomes 1st prince of Wales 1282 Death Llywelyn ab Gruffydd, monarch of North Wales (1246-77), dies 1240 Death Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of Wales, dies 1240 Death Llywelyn ab Iorwerth the Great, monarch of Wales (1194-1240), dies 40 Birthday Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general; conquered Wales, No England
