The Battle of Crecy took place on 26th August 1346.  

Edward III  had invaded France, during the Hundred Years War with 4,000 men-at-arms and 10,000 archers, many of whom, were Welsh.

Edward's son, The Black Prince, Prince of Wales took up a strategic position threatening Paris, where he waited for Phillip VI of France  with 12,000 men-at-arms and several thousand foot soldiers to attack him.  Edward positioned his knights in the centre surrounded by a crescent of archers and as the French attacked, they were cut to pieces by the arrows of the Welsh longbowmen. 

After the battle, it is said that Edward  found the helmet of a dead German mercenary that had  three ostrich plumes and the motto Ich Dein, meaning 'I serve'. which he adopted as his coat of arms.   The emblem of the Prince of Wales’remains the three feathers with the legend Ich Dein to this day.

Sixty women were widowed and 153 children left fatherless, when a huge explosion occurred at the Parc Slip Colliery at Aberkenfig near Tondu, on 26th August 1892, killing; 112 men and boys.   Only 39 survived, with some being trapped underground for a week before being rescued. 

The mine closed in 1904, but the coal seams were  later re-worked as part of the Parc Slip opencast coal mine.  There is a memorial to the disaster comprising of 112 stones, one for each life lost.

On 26th August 1967: The Beatles, along with Mick Jagger and his girlfriend Marianne Faithfull, attended a lecture from the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, at University College in Bangor.

Afterwards the group held a press conference to announce that they had become his disciples in the "Spiritual Regeneration Movement" and officially renounced the use of all drugs.