1770: 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
1888: Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing equipment which allows the efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
For action at Festubert in France on 16th May 1915 Frederick Barter from Cardiff was a recipient of the Victoria Cross. Barter was a Company Sergeant Major in the Royal Welch Fusiliers during the First World War when, with eight volunteers, he attacked a German position and captured three German officers, 102 men and 500 yards of trenches, as well as taking 11 enemy mines out of action
On this day 1929 at the first ever Academy Awards, the film Wings, directed by William Wellman (of Welsh descent), won the Oscar for Best Picture. Wellman was a great-great-great-grandson of Welsh-born Francis Lewis of New York, one of the 56 signatories to the Declaration of Independence.
1951The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights began between John F Kennedy International Airport in New York and Heathrow Airport in London.
1956England's Jim Laker took all 10 Australian wickets for 88 in 46 overs at the Oval.
The Pembrokeshire Coast Path was opened on this day in 1970 by Wynford Vaughan Thomas. The Pembrokeshire Coast Path is a walking path around the coastline of Pembrokeshire from Amroth to St Dogmaels. * It is 186 miles long. * There are 90 beaches alongside or across the Path, 41 of which have been awarded Blue Flag Awards. * 43 Iron Age sites are visible from the Coast Path. * Its 35,000 feet of ascent and descent is said to be equivalent to climbing Everest [b]
…..1966: The Beach Boys release their eleventh studio album Pet Sounds in the US.
1984: Ozzy Osbourne is arrested in Memphis, Tennessee for 'staggering drunk' down Beale Street. [/b]
