On 9th October 1217, Isabel Marshal (born at Pembroke Castle and daughter of William the Marshal, the 'best knight that ever lived.') married Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, on her 17th birthday. They were to become the great grandparents of King Robert the Bruce of Scotland.
.. On October 9th 1401, Llywelyn ap Gruffydd Fychan, was gruesomely executed for thwarting the efforts of King Henry IV’s forces to capture Owain Glyndwr.
Owain Glyndwr had rebelled against English rule and declared himself Prince of Wales in 1400. Henry sent a force into Wales to find Glyndwr and they tracked him down to Llandovery. Henry, accompanied by a huge army, arrived in Llandovery and looked for local help in locating Glyndwr. Local landowner, Llywelyn ap Gruffydd Fychan volunteered to help, however, the 60-year-old Llywelyn, who had two sons in Glyndwr’s army, had no intentions of betraying Glyndwr. For weeks, he led the king and his forces on a wild goose chase through the uplands of Deheubarth, which allowed Glyndwr and his men time to make their escape. The king’s patience became taxed and he began to see that Llywelyn was not taking them to their man. Angrily, Henry ordered that Llywelyn was to be dragged through the town of Llandovery and executed in the town square in front of the castle gates. Glyndwr remained uncaptured and was never betrayed. …
1665 Due to the Great Plague of London, the British Parliament meets at the University of Oxford rather than the Palace of Westminster …
The Main Line: Cardiff - Merthyr Tydfil by the Taff Vale Railway was started in 1836, with the stretch from Cardiff to Navigation House (later named Abercynon) officially opened on 9th October 1840. The stretch from Abercynon to Merthyr was later opened on 12th April 1841. …
1854 The siege of Sevastopol begins during the Crimean War.
… The first ever recorded sheepdog trial in the U.K. was Mr. R. J. Lloyd-Price's event at Garth Coch, about a mile from Bala on 9th of October, 1873.
Although the majority of competitors were Welsh, the trial was won by Scotsman James (Jimmy) Thomson with his dog, Tweed. Jimmy had moved to Wales as a tenant on Mr. Lloyd-Price's estate in 1872.
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… The Washington Monument on the National Mall in Washington was opened October 9th 1888. Halfway up, there is a stone which was donated by the people of Wales. Its inscription reads; Fy Iaith, Fy Ngwlad, Fy Nghenedl. WALES. Cymry am byth. (My Language, My Country, My Nation. WALES. The Welsh Forever). The Washington Monument was built to commemorate George Washington, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and the first American president, who once declared "good Welshmen make good Americans".
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9 Oct 1969 For the first time in the history of the show, the BBC’s Top Of The Pops producers refused to air the No. 1 song, ‘Je T’aime... Moi Non Plus’, the erotic French language love song by Serge Gainsbourg and actress Jane Birkin. The song, an instrumental with the voices of Gainsbourg and Birkin apparently recorded in the act of love and superimposed over the top, caused such a stir in Britain that the original label, Fontana, dropped the record despite it being No. 2 on the charts. A small record company, Major Minor, bought the rights and saw the song climb to the top of the charts, the first French language song to ever do so.
Succceeded on the Forbidden Fruits principle, perhaps?
Good Welshmen may well make good U.S. Americans but the way things are going, I suspect thse descendants of those emigres down there in Patagonia are very happy to be good South Americans!
1940: John Lennon 1944: John Entwistle (The Who) 1948: Jackson Browne 1949: Rod Temperton (songwriter, musician, producer) 1967: Mat Osman (Suede) 1970: PJ Harvey 1973: Terry Balsamo (Evanescence) 1976: Sean Lennon
2006 During a concert at Madison Square Garden, Barbra Streisand makes some disparaging remarks about President Bush. An audience member yells, "What is this, a fund raiser?" and Streisand stuns the crowd with her retort: "Why don't you shut the f--k up."
1984 The extraordinarily popular children's show Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends begins its run on BBC-TV, featuring a narrator by the name of Ringo Starr.
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1999 – Tom Jones went to number one in the United Kingdom with his thirty-fourth studio album ‘Reload’. The LP sold over 4 million copies worldwide and it features the international hit ‘Sex Bomb’.
