Today is the feast day of St Gwynno or Gwynnog. ….
1640 The Treaty of Ripon was signed, by Charles I, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Scottish Covenanters. It was a major setback for Charles, and its terms were humiliating. It stipulated that Northumberland and County Durham were to be ceded to the Scots as an interim measure, that Newcastle was to be left in the hands of the Scots, and that Charles was to pay them £850 a day to maintain their armies there. …
The first group of Welsh Mormons, led by Dan Jones from Halkin, Flintshire, arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on 26th October 1849 after a voyage of more than eight months. More than one-fifth of them died of cholera on route and heavy snows delayed them and killed many of their animals.
… The Wreck of 'The Royal Charter'
The Royal Charter was a steam clipper, built at Sandycroft in Flintshire, which was wrecked off the beach of Porth Alerth in Dulas Bay on the north-east coast of Anglesey on 26th October 1859. With approximately 459 people killed, it is the highest loss of life in any shipwreck off the Welsh coast.
The Royal Charter was returning to Liverpool from Melbourne, when the wind rose to Hurricane force, grounding the ship on a sandbank before the rising tide, driven by 100mph winds, smashed her into rocks and she broke up. There were only 39 survivors.
Approximately 200 other ships were wrecked by the storm that night and it has become known as the 'Royal Charter gale'. Many of the victims were buried at nearby St Gallgo's Church, Llanallgo, where there is a memorial. There is also a memorial on the cliff top above the spot where the ship struck.
Interestingly, The Royal Charter was carrying a large cargo of Gold, much of which was washed ashore at Porth Alerth beach and the disaster was described by Charles Dickens, working as a journalist at the time, who visited the scene and spoke with the rector of Llanallgo, the Rev. Stephen Roose Hughes. It is thought that the trauma of the incident probably led to the rector’s own premature death soon afterwards.
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1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral: The most famous shootout in the Wild West occurs between lawmen, including Wyatt Earp, and the Cowboys, with Tom and Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton killed.
1929 London's world famous buses were painted red.
1950 The first sound and vision broadcast from the House of Commons was broadcast, showing George VI reopening the chamber after repair work carried out on damage sustained during the war.
… Don’t normally do births but I didn’t know about the Welsh link to this one-
Born on this day 1947 in Chicago, Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton. Both her father, Hugh Rodham and her mother, Dorothy Howell were of Welsh descent. Hillary's maternal great-grandfather, Edwin Howell Sr, from Narbeth, Pembrokeshire. worked in the steel industry in the Landore area of Swansea and emigrated to Illinois in the late 19th century. His son Edwin John Howell Jr, worked as a firefighter in Chicago and was the father of Dorothy Howell (Hillary's mother). She married Hugh Rodham Jr ( Hillary's father) in 1942. Hillary's paternal great-grandmother, Mary Griffiths, was born in Merthyr Tydfil c.1850 and grew up in extreme poverty. She was working as a domestic servant at the age of 12. She married John Jones, a miner from Llangynidr, Powys and they emigrated to Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1879. Mary gave birth to 14 children, however only four survived childhood, one of whom, was Hillary’s grandmother, Hannah Jones, who gave birth to Hugh Rodham Jr ( Hillary's father) in 1911. …
26 Oct 1958 Bill Haley and his Comets played the first rock 'n' roll concert in Germany. Over 7,000 rock 'n' roll fans turned the show into a riot. Over 500 rock ‘n’ rollers and police staged a fist-and-stick battle during the show. Five policemen were badly beaten, resulting in the West Berlin Senate banning all future rock ‘n’ roll concerts. In East Germany, Neues Deutschland, the official Communist Party organ, condemned Haley in a front-page editorial for: "turning the youth of the land of Bach and Beethoven into raging beasts."
26 Oct 1968 The two-day San Francisco Pop Festival was held at Alameda County Fairgrounds. Eric Burdon and The Animals, Procol Harum, Iron Butterfly, Jose Feliciano, Deep Purple, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Grass Roots and Canned Heat all appeared.
My guess is that the Scottish soldiers brought their own weapons and maybe a change of clothes, and made the occupied English locals provide living quarters, so the actual number was probably much more than 250.
@TheSirfurryanimalWales How many Scottish soldiers were in the occupying force that Charles I paid for, Sir Furry?
Whatever the number was, I bet Scottish noblemen skimmed off a lot of Charles's payments for themselves, and gave as little as possible to the soldiers. 😠
