On 31 August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales died as a result of injuries sustained in a car accident in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris.

* On 6 September 1997, 12 Guardsmen of the Welsh Guards escorted Diana's casket, from Kensington Palace to Westminster Abbey.

* The family of Trevor Rees Jones, Diana's bodyguard and the sole survivor of the crash are from Llanfyllin in Powys.

* On Wednesday, August 27,  Edward Williams a resident of  Mountain Ash, went to the local police station  to report a disturbing a premonition he'd had about the Princess of Wales.  A statement was taken and  logged into the Mountain Ash police records, it reads

 "He said he was a psychic and predicted that Princess Diana was going to die. In previous years he has predicted that the Pope and Ronald Reagan were going to be the victims of assassination attempts. On both occasions he was proved to be correct. Mr. Williams appeared to be quite normal."

Born on this day 1921 in Llanvihangel Crucorney (Llanfihangel Crucornau) 5 miles north of Abergavenny

Raymond Williams - Author

Williams was the son of a railway signalman and was educated at Abergavenny Grammar School and Cambridge University, where his studies were interrupted by joined the Army, during the Second World War rising to the rank of anti-tank captain,. After the war he was to return to Cambridge as a lecturer. He is perhaps best known for his incompleted series of experimental historical novels "People of the Black Mountains" which details the flashbacks of a modern man into different periods of history, from the Paleolithic period to the late-Medieval period. It was Williams' intention to come up to the modern day period. However, Williams died in 1988, before its completion.

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On this day 1968, Gary Sobers made cricketing history by hitting six sixes off one over from Malcolm Nash, in a match between Nottinghamshire and Glamorgan in Swansea.  Sobers hit the final six out of the ground "all the way to Swansea" as Wilf Wooller put it in his television commentary. 

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Born on this day 1981 in Carmarthen

Dwayne Peel  - Wales and Lions rugby international, who was part of two  Grand Slam winning sides in 2005 and 2008.

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August Bank Holiday 

The invention of the activity of bog-snorkelling was inspired by a pub conversation, at the Neuadd Arms in Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys in 1976. 

The first World Bog Snorkelling Championship was held in 1985 and now takes place annually in a water filled 60- yard trench at the Waen Rhydd peat bog, near Llanwrtyd Wells every August Bank Holiday.   Competitors must wear snorkels and flippers, and complete the course relying only on flipper power.