On 14th September 1171, Rhys ap Gruffydd (The Lord Rhys) the ruler of the kingdom of Deheubarth, established a lasting peace with King Henry II of England.
1752 Britain and the British Empire, including the American colonies, adopt the Gregorian Calendar after skipping 11 days between September 3 and September 13. As mentioned recently.
1812 Great Fire of Moscow begins as Napoleon approaches the city and retreating Russians burn it - fire continues to burn for five days.
1867 Karl Marx publishes "Das Kapital" Volume 1, his theory of the Capitalist system and how it is doomed to destroy itself.
For risking his own life, by going under enemy fire to rescue his senior officer and then carrying him 100 yards to safety at the First Battle of the Aisne in northern France on this day in 1914, Lance Corporal William Charles Fuller from Laugharne became the first Welshman in World War I to be awarded the Victoria Cross.
On 14th September 1914 the 'Cardiff Pals' marched to war.
At the end of August 1914, it was decided that the British Army needed an additional 100,000 volunteers in the war against Germany, so in an experimental move, they allowed groups of friends to enlist and serve in units together.
These units proved extremely popular, becoming known as the Pals Battalions and on 14th September 1914, the Cardiff Pals were seen off to war by hundreds of people lining the streets. The Cardiff Pals went on to fight in Salonika for three years, defending Macedonia, northern Greece and the Aegean ports from German and Bulgarian forces. Tragically they suffered almost 100 casualties in one assault on 18th September 1918, barely two months before the end of the war ended. The devastating impact of such losses to individual communities led to the disbanding of Pals Battalions for future conflicts.
1930 Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6
1972 "The Waltons" TV program premieres on CBS starring Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Michael Learned, and Will Geer. Soon made it’s way to BBC2 on a Monday night.
1993 MCA and Virgin Records release album "Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell" by singer Meat Loaf, written and produced by Jim Steinman; it arrives 16 years after the first installment of eventual trilogy, and features the hit "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)". We still don’t know what ‘that’ is.
1981: The Rolling Stones play a 'secret' pre-tour warm-up show at a club in Worcester, Massachusetts as Little Boy Blue & The Cockroaches. But a local radio station gives the game away resulting in the small venue being besieged by over 4,000 fans.
After a while, you'll forget everything It was a brief interlude and a midsummer night's fling And you'll see that it's time to move on I won't do that I won't do that I know the territory, I've been around It'll all turn to dust, and we'll all fall down Sooner or later, you'll be screwing around I won't do that No, won't do that
