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13th November
13th November
In November 1256, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd crossed the River Conwy to take control of Gwynedd Is Conwy. With him was his brother Dafydd whom he had released from...
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14th November
14th November
The birth of Barry Docks.
Work began on the new dock at Barry on 14 November 1884which opened for trade in 1889. Later, further docks were added and by...
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15th November
15th November
Aneurin Bevan was one of the most important ministers of the post-war Labour government and the chief architect of the National Health Service.
Born on...
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16th November
16th November
November 1886 saw serious flooding throughout Wales causing severe damage; * The keeper of the Mumbles lighthouse was swept out to sea and drowned. *...
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17th November
17th November
Llywelyn ap Dafydd, de jure Prince of Gwynedd, died at Bristol Castle in mysterious circumstances in 1287 and was buried in the nearby Dominican...
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18th November
18th November
Tasker Watkins (18 November 1918- 9 September 2007) was a soldier, judge and President of the Welsh Rugby Union.
Watkins won the Victoria Cross for...
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19th November
19th November
Welsh was spoken officially at the European Union for the first time on 19 November 2008 when Wales' Culture Minister Alun Ffred Jones spoke in Welsh to...
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20th November
20th November
Born on this day 1912 in Rhos on Sea, Denbighshire
Wilf Wooller, who is acclaimed as one of the greatest all-round sportsmen that Wales has ever produced....
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21st November
21st November
Born on this day 1882 in Eglwys Rhos, Caernarfonshire,
Harold Lowe, who was Fifth Officer on RMS Titanic when she sank in April 1911. He was...
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22nd November
22nd November
A three-year dispute began on 22 November 1900 when 2800 men walked out of the Penrhyn Quarry in Bethesda. Most of the quarrymen held out for three years, by...
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23rd November
23rd November
Gangster Llewellyn Morris Humphreys, known as Murray the Hump, whose parents came from a hill farm in Carno, near Newtown, died of a heart attack on 23rd...
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24th November
24th November
On 24th November 1326, Hugh Despenser the Younger, Lord of Glamorgan, was executed. Despenser rose to fame as royal chamberlain and probable lover of...
