This was the day in 1282 that the Battle of Llandeilo Fawr took place. In 1282 Edward I, was attempting to subdue Wales by surrounding the armies of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd in Gwynedd. His plan was to invade Wales on three fronts. In south Wales, Edward ordered Gilbert de Clare to hold that area and to prevent Welsh forces travelling to reinforce Llywelyn in the north. De Clare’s army of 1,600 infantry and 100 cavalry had just taken Carreg Cennen Castle and were returning with the spoils when they were ambushed by the Welsh at Llandeilo Fawr destroying most of the English army. The Welsh victory stalled Edward’s plans and de Clare was replaced by William de Valence 1st Earl of Pembroke. ….
1497 Battle of Deptford Bridge - forces under King Henry VII soundly defeat Cornish rebels led by Michael An Gof
1535 Trial of English Catholic Cardinal John Fisher for treason at Westminster Hall for declaring King Henry VIII is not the Supreme Head of the Church in England. He is found guilty and later executed
1579: During his circumnavigation of the globe (Sir) Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion(modern California) for England.
…. The Welshman who founded the Ukranian city of Donetsk. John Hughes was born in Merthyr Tydfil in 1815, where his father was an engineer at Cyfarthfa ironworks. John also became an engineer, working in Ebbw Vale and Newport, where he patented inventions in armaments and armour plating. Hughes later moved to London, where he became a director of the Millwall Engineering and Shipbuilding Company who specialised in iron cladding the wooden warships of British Admiralty. When the company received an order from Russia in 1870 to plate a naval fortress at Kronstadt on the Baltic Sea, Hughes went out with eight shiploads of equipment and specialist ironworkers and miners, mostly from south Wales, to build a rail producing factory and metallurgical plant. The settlement which grew in the shadow of Hughes' factory was named after him and hence, the town of Hughesovka (now called Donetsk) was born. The town grew rapidly and Hughes provided schools, a hospital, tea rooms, bath houses, a fire brigade and an Anglican church dedicated to St David and St George. Hughes died on 17th June 1889 and the company was taken over by his four sons. They rapidly expanded the works, especially with the need for artillery shells at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. However, the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 led to the departure of almost all the company's foreign employees, but the works prospered under Communist rule. ….
1885/Statue of Liberty arrives in NYC aboard French ship `Isere' ….
1939 Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre …..
House of the Long Shadows was released on 17th June 1983.
Set in a remote Manor House in the heart of Wales, the film is of historical importance in that it is the only co-starring effort of the four masters of terror: Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and John Carradine. This is also the last film in which Cushing and Lee appeared together. An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet: can he write a classic novel like 'Wuthering Heights' in twenty-four hours, however, he discovers some rather odd inhabitants on his arrival. IMG_1958.jpeg
A research study published on 17th June 2012 by Peter Donnelly, professor of statistical science at Oxford University, concluded that the Welsh are among the ‘most genetically distinct’ inhabitants of Britain.
500,000 points in the DNA of, 2,000 rural dwelling people who had all four grandparents born in the same area were tested, with the results showing that the Welsh carry more DNA dating back to the tribes that colonised Britain after the last Ice Age 10,000 years ago, than most other parts of Britain. However, the most genetically distinctive were the people of the Orkneys, whose genes show them to be of mainly Scandinavian origin. IMG_1957.jpeg
1971: Carole King's seminal album Tapestry goes to No.1 on the US album chart for the first of 15 consecutive weeks.
1997: Fans riot at the Ozzfest concert in Columbus Ohio, after Ozzy Osbourne fails to perform due to throat problems
