Welsh sailor and politician

Albert Owen

Albert Owen is a Welsh Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ynys Môn from 2001 to 2019. He took the seat in the 2001 election from Plaid Cymru with a margin of exactly eight hundred votes and retained the seat at the four subsequent general elections. During his time in Parliament, he was a member of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee, Welsh Affairs Select Committee and the International Development Committee. He was also a member of the Speaker's Panel of Chairs and vice-chair of the all-party parliamentary group on cancer.

Born

1959

August 10

Died

Living

Era

1950s

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Albert, in brief

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Key dates

1959 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

654 Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I.
955 Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
991 Battle of Maldon: The English, led by Byrhtnoth, Ealdorman of Essex, are defeated by a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon, Essex.
1030 The Battle of Azaz ends with a humiliating retreat of the Byzantine emperor, Romanos III Argyros, against the Mirdasid rulers of Aleppo. The retreat degenerates into a rout, in which Romanos himself barely escapes capture.

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The world in 1959

When Albert arrived

april 25 The Saint Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
april 8 A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
april 8 The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
april 9 Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on August 10

Herbert Hoover 1874–1964 American engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States (died 1964) Alexander Glazunov 1865–1936 Russian composer, conductor, and educator (died 1936) Alfred Döblin 1878–1957 Polish-German physician and author (died 1957) Camillo Benso 1810–1861 Count of Cavour, Italian soldier and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Italy (died 1861) Hammy Love 1895– Australian cricketer (died 1969) Hugo Eckener 1868–1954 German pilot and businessman (died 1954) Jean-François Lyotard 1924–1998 French sociologist and philosopher (born 1924) John of Bohemia (died 1346) 1296– Jorge Amado 1912–2001 Brazilian novelist and poet (died 2001)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1959

Ahmet Davutoğlu 1959– Turkish political scientist, academic, and politician, 37th Prime Minister of Turkey Aidan Quinn 1959– American actor Andrew Bolt 1959– Australian journalist Anna Escobedo Cabral 1959– American lawyer and politician, 42nd Treasurer of the United States Barry O'Farrell 1959– Australian politician, 43rd Premier of New South Wales Boris Nemtsov 1959–2015 Russian academic and politician, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (born 1959) Brad McCrimmon 1959– Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2011) Brett Bodine 1959– American NASCAR driver Colin Quinn 1959– American comedian and actor

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