On 11th August 2008, a re-survey of Mynydd Graig Goch in the Moel Hebog group of Snowdonia summits determined its height to be 2,000ft 6in  rather than the 1998ft previously recorded, therefore, qualifying it as a mountain.

The Normans occupied Glamorgan early after the Norman Conquest and on 11 August 1107, under the instruction of King Henry I, Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury consecrated  Urban as the first purely Norman bishop of the church of Glamorgan, which sometime between 1115 and 1119, was re-named the diocese of Llandaff.  Before Urban,  the bishops were called Bishop of Teilo, although still ministering to Glamorgan and Gwent and were almost certainly based at Llandeilo Abbey.    

 Urban made great efforts to increase the prestige of Llandaff.  He translated the relics of  St Dyfrig from Bardsey Island and reburied them at Llandaff.  Then in April 1120, he began the reconstruction of the existing small church into a cathedral.    

But perhaps his most notable legacy is the compilation of the "Book of Llandaff" a dossier of documents begun in 1119' by which he hoped to increase the lands and properties held by the diocese at the expense of the neighbouring dioceses of Hereford and St Davids.  The case was referred to Rome and Urban travelled there in April 1128, where Pope Honorius II (pictured) decided provisionally in his favour awarding substantial swathes of territory in Herefordshire and Deheubarth to the Llandaff diocese.  In 1130, the bishop of St Davids  appealed the decision and Pope Innocent II reversed the judgement.  Urban died in early October 1134 during his final visit to Rome.  

Though he lost, Urban's epic legal battle in which he displayed ambition and energy radically changed the nature of the relationship between the papal curia and the church in England and there was to be an increasing number of litigants who appealed to Rome following decisions taken in provincial courts.   

Alun Hoddinott CBE - composer of classical music, who, more than anyone, directed classical music's postwar path to full professionalism and creative renewal.  

A fitting recognition was the announcement that the new home of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at the Wales Millennium Centre is to be named BBC Hoddinott Hall - Neuadd Hoddinott y BBC.   Hoddinott was a violinist,  child-prodigy   and a  founding member  of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales at age 16.  Over the course of his  career,  his vast and versatile catalogue runs to nearly 300 individual works, which include 10 symphonies, 6 operas and over 20 concertos.  

Born on this day 1941 in Rhyl 

Nerys Hughes - actress, known primarily for her television roles, in "The Liver Birds"   and "The District Nurse", for which she won the Television Actress of the Year Award.   

Born on this day 1923, from Mold.

Raymond Davies-Hughes - The  Welshman who broadcasted  propaganda  in Welsh for the Germans during World War II.

Hughes was an RAF airman whose plane was shot down over Germany during a bombing raid and when approached in a prisoner-of-war camp, Hughes agreed to broadcast propaganda in Welsh. Joseph Goebbels was the Third Reich's Propaganda Minister and he realised the importance and influence of mass media. He knew that a Welsh speaker could reach a new audience. Hughes worked with the traitor William Joyce, better known as "Lord Haw-Haw", who broadcasted propaganda programmes in English for the Nazis. After the war, Lord Haw-Haw was hanged for treason while Hughes was sentenced to five years hard labour, which was subsequently reduced to two years following an appeal for clemency.