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27th May
Today is the feast day of Saint Melangell, patron saint of hares and rabbits.
Prince Brochwel Ysgithrog was hunting near Pennant in the year 604 when his hounds chased a hare into a thicket, where they found a beautiful maiden at prayer. The hare sheltered under the hem of her garment, and the dogs fled. The Prince, discovering that the lady was Melangell, a king’s daughter who had fled Ireland to escape a forced marriage, gave her the valley as a place of sanctuary. Melangell remained there, where she founded a nunnery.
On 27th May 1989, John Evans of Fforestfach became the UK's oldest man ever; Evans died the following year aged 110, but the record stood until 2009. He remains the longest-lived Welsh-born person.
Evans had been a coal miner and attributed his longevity to abstinence from drinking, smoking and swearing.
In May 2006, two Big Brother contestants, Imogen Thomas and Glyn Wise, were told not to use the Welsh language in private conversations. The ruling was reversed after a formal complaint from Cymdeithas yr Iaith (The Welsh Language Society).
Born this day in 1881 in Cardiff,
Edward Vivian Robertson , who became a United States Senator for Wyoming. Having served in the Welsh Regiment during the Second Boer War, he became a mechanical and electric power engineer. He emigrated to the United States in 1912 and settled in Park County, Wyoming, raising livestock and engaging in the mercantile business at Cody between 1912 and 1942.
