The Battle of Crug Mawr, near Cardigan in Dyfed, took place in September or October 1136.  It was a significant setback to Norman expansion in Wales and was part of the Welsh revolt against Norman rule, which had begun on 1 January 1136 with a Welsh victory at the Battle of Llwchwr near Swansea.

In April of that year, Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare, the Norman lord of Ceredigion, was killed by the men of Gwent, which encouraged the forces of Gwynedd and Deheubarth to ally and invade Ceredigion.  After some fierce fighting, the Norman army was forced to retreat, with the bridge across the River Teifi giving way under the sheer weight of numbers. Hundreds drowned and the river clogged with the bodies of men and horses.   Those who survived fled to Cardigan, but the town was taken and burned by the Welsh.  The castle, however, was held by Robert Fitz Martin, the only one to remain under Norman control by the end of the rebellion.  

Ysgol Gyfyn Rhydfelen (Now Ysgol Gyfun Garth Olwg), the first Welsh medium secondary school in South Wales, was opened in the village of Rhydyfelin near Pontypridd, on 6th September 1962.  In 2006, the school moved to a new site in Church Village and today, has approximately 1000 students, ninety-two percent of whom come from homes where the first language is English.  

Robert Jones (19 August 1857 – 6 September 1898),  born at Penrhos between Raglan and Abergavenny, was a  recipient of the Victoria Cross for his actions inside the hospital at the Battle of Rorke's Drift in January 1879.  

Jones was posted in the hospital room during the battle and despite suffering four spear and one bullet wounds, managed with his colleague, William Jones, to defend his position against wave after wave of Zulu attacks and bring six of the seven patients to safety

After discharge, Jones became a farm labourer in Peterschurch, Herefordshire where he died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds in 1898 aged 41 years.  The Coroner's court heard that he was plagued with recurring nightmares of his hand to hand combat during the battle and a verdict of suicide whilst temporarily insane was passed. 

He is buried in Peterchurch churchyard with the gravestone facing the opposite way to all the others, presumably because he committed suicide. In 1998 a campaign was launched to have it realigned but as yet, this has not happened.  

Born on this day 1920 in Gorslas, near St Clears. 

Trevor Morris OBE  - professional footballer, manager and secretary of the FAW ( the Football Association of Wales)  

The son of a miner, Morris began his career with Ipswich Town.  With the outbreak of  World War II, Morris' playing career came to an end when he served in RAF Bomber Control and piloted the lead aircraft in a squadron of 40 Lancaster Bombers on D-Day.  He flew over 40 missions over enemy territory and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Coss. 

Morris returned to football and became manager-secretary of Cardiff City in 1954 and the following season,  took over at Swansea.  In 1971, he was appointed the secretary of the Football Association of Wales, where he remained until 1982.   One of Morris's long-term achievements was the acceptance of the principle that footballers could play for a country with which they had blood ties but which was not the country of their birth. 

Born on this day 1869 in Oswestry. 

Sir Henry Walford Davies - composer, 

*  Davies was appointed Master of the King's Musick (a post comparable to that of Poet Laureate), during the reign of King George V.

*  Upon the creation of the RAF he was appointed its Director of Music and composed the well-known RAF March Past. 

*  Davies became Gregynog Professor of Music at Aberystwyth University in 1919 and later, Musical Director of the University of Wales. 

*  He became chairman of the National Council of Music for Wales and helped greatly with the promotion of Welsh music. 

*  Prior to the outbreak of World War II, Davies was a well-known and popular radio personality.