Privateer Henry Morgan (Harri Morgan) died on this day 1688 in Jamaica. 

Sir Henry Morgan (1635-1688) who is remembered as the greatest of all privateers, was born in Llanrumney.  He fought for the English against the Spanish in the Caribbean during the 1660’s and 1670’s.  He was knighted by King Charles II and died a rich man in Jamaica. 

Morgan was a legend who was loved by all social classes and helped establish Jamaica as a strong English colony in the Caribbean , but he also was guilty of the death and torture of innocent Spanish civilians and the spread terror far and wide. 

On 25th August 1945,  the children who had been evacuated from English cities to the comparative safety of Wales, were sent home. 

Evacuation began in September 1939, with an operation nicknamed 'Pied Piper' when approximately 110,000 children were sent to Wales.  The evacuees were all given a gas mask and food for the journey and had a  label stating the child’s name, home address, school and destination, pinned to their clothing. Most of the children adapted  well to country life staying in touch with their host family after the end of war.  

However, it wasn’t only children who were evacuated. Mothers of young babies, pregnant women and disabled people were also evacuated.   In some cases, teachers were evacuated andstayed in the same village as their pupils.   

Born on this day 1909 in Rhosllaerchrugog, near Wrexham

Arwel Hughes OBE -  orchestral conductor and composer.

Arwel Hughes, studied at the Royal College of Music, with Vaughan Williams and C. H. Kitson  and in 1935 returned to Wales to join the BBC, where he was appointed Head of Music of BBC Wales in 1965.  He was made an OBE in 1969 for his services to Welsh music and for organising the music for the Investiture of the Prince of Wales and is Honorary Music Director of Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod.  

On 25th August 1919, fire destroyed the Waterloo Hydro, Aberystwyth's largest hotel.

The hotel had been built in 1910 and had five floors with 127 bedrooms.  The balcony and bay windows gave the rooms the best sea views in the town.  On the cleared site, one of the most fantastic pieces of this town’s twentieth-century architecture was built; the King’s Hall, originally called Municipal Hall. Finished in 1933, it was a huge building that took up the entire plot and was constructed in the classic art deco style that the country loved at the time. A balcony balustrade ran around the flat roof, which was broken on the centre of the seafront side by a great clock tower topped with a flag pole.  However the building fell into disrepair and was demolished in 1989.