Cremated on this day 1893 

William Price (Physician and eccentric) was cremated on a pyre of two tons of coal on a hillside overlooking Llantrisant.  It was watched by 20,000 people and overseen by his family, who were dressed in a mix of traditional Welsh and Druidic clothing.

Price was born in Risca, Monmouthshire on 4th March 1800, he trained as a doctor in Caerphilly and after qualifying from the Royal College of Surgeons in London in 1821, he returned to Wales to practice.  He became involved in Chartist politics, becoming a local leader and after the Chartist march on Newport in 1839, he fled to France disguised as a woman.

Whilst in France  he visited the Louvre museum, where he became fascinated with a stone with a Greek inscription that he interpreted as a prophecy given by an ancient Welsh prince named Alun, revealing that the secrets of the Welsh language would soon be revealed by a man who would also liberate the people of Wales.  Convinced that the prophecy applied to him, Price decided to return and free Wales from English domination.

Upon returning to Wales he began to get increasingly interested in Welsh cultural activities, he scorned orthodox religion, claimed to be an arch-druid and performed ancient rites on the Pontypridd rocking-stone.  At this time he had also taken to wearing  a white tunic, covering a scarlet waistcoat,  green cloth trousers and a huge fox skin hat.  He neither shaved or cut his hair.

After another spell in France, he returned and opened a medical practice in Llantrisant and in 1881 at the age of 81 married  Gwenllian Llewelyn, who was only twenty-one years old and she bore him a son, whom Price named Iesu Grist (Jesus  Christ), however, the infant died at five months of age and believing that burying corpses, polluted the earth, Price decided to cremate his son’s body upon the summit of a hill outside Llantrisant.  Cremation at the time was unlawful and Price was arrested and put on trial for the illegal disposal of a corpse, however, he successfully argued that there was no legislation that specifically outlawed it and this paved the way for the Cremation Act of 1902.  On his release, Price returned to Llantrisant to a hero's welcome and in 1892 erected a pole over sixty feet high, with a crescent moon symbol at its peak on top of the hill where the cremation had taken place.

Williams is considered by many to be among the greatest Welshman of all time and there is a statue and an exhibition dedicated to him in Llantrisant .

Born this day 1948, in Newport

Bobby Windsor  nicknamed "The Duke" -  former Wales and Lions rugby international

Windsor began his rugby union career playing at fullback and flyhalf, but became famous as a hooker and along with Graham Price and Charlie Faulkner formed the legendary Pontypool Front Row who played for W ales as a unit 19 times during the 1970s.  Windsor was selected for two Lions tours, playing in all the tests on the tour of South Africa in 1974, where he was instrumental in the Lions forwards dominating the Springboks.  Windsor has been voted the hardest Welsh rugby player of all time.

Born on this day 1889 in Bala

John Hugh "Jack" Evans - former Wales soccer international, who possessed a cannonball shot which earned him the nickname the "Bala bang".  Evans once broke a goalkeeper's wrist, whilst trying to stop one of his shots and another was knocked out cold.

Evans first started playing for Bala Wanderers whilst working as a printer.  He then signed for Wrexham in 1908 but after suffering a career threatening shoulder injury, he moved to Cardiff to find work as a printer.  However, his shoulder recovered and he resumed playing football, becoming the first player that Cardiff City bought.  He also scored the first ever goal at Ninian Park and was the first Cardiff City player to represent Wales.

Recent research has established that stones from Wales were definitely used in the building of  Stonehenge.  Geologists believe that Carn Goedog, a hill near Crymych in the Preseli Hills of Pembrokeshire, is the site from which 11 stones were transported via raft, up the Bristol Channel and River Avon and then overland to Stonehenge in Wiltshire, around 3000 BC to 1600 BC.