The daguerreotype of Margam Castle taken on 9th March 1841, by Calvert Jones is credited with being the first photograph taken in Wales.

Calvert Jones, who was born in Swansea, was a mathematician, painter and photographer.  When he became rector of Loughor, he took up photography as a hobby and took many photographs of the Swansea area, as well as in France and Italy. He also developed his own technique  of overlapping photographs to give panoramic images.

After inheriting the Heathfield estate in Swansea in 1847, he was responsible for developing the area and named Mansel Street after his brother.  He died in Bath, but was buried at St Mary's Church, Swansea, however, the grave was destroyed during the bombings of World War II.  

Born this day, 1942 in Garnant in the Amman Valley

John Cale, OBE - musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the rock band The Velvet Underground. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.  

On this day, 1950 Timothy Evans was executed by hanging but was later granted a posthumous pardon. The case is now acknowledged as a major miscarriage of justice and was instrumental in the abolition of capital punishment in the United Kingdom in 1965.

Timothy John Evans, from Merthyr, was tried and convicted of murdering his wife and infant daughter at their residence in Notting Hill, London and sentenced to death by hanging. However, three years later, John Christie, a downstairs neighbour was found to be a serial killer who confessed to murdering Mrs. Evans and was subsequently found to have also murdered Evans's daughter.  

Born on this day 1910 in Aberdare

Sir Rhys Llewellyn- mining executive, soldier and author.

Llewellyn was the Managing Director of Graigola colliery in Merthyr, an officer in the Welsh Guards during World War II, the High Sheriff of Glamorgan and author of a book on horse racing entitled Breeding to Race.  

Born on this day 1949 in Fleur-de-Lis, near Blackwood.

Mostyn Neil Hamilton (born 9 March 1949) - barrister, teacher and Conservative MP.  

Hamilton's father was a chief engineer for the National Coal Board and his grandfathers were both coal miners, however at the age of 15, he joined the Conservative party.  In 1997, Hamilton became involved in a political scandal known as the Cash-for-questions affair, after which he and his wife Christine sought to become media celebrities.