ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE MARCH 15, 1991
CILLA BLACK, right, yesterday celebrated becoming the highest-paid woman in British TV. She signed a ‘golden handcuffs’ deal, estimated at £1million, tying her to London Weekend Television for three years.
MARCH 15, 2011
A DESPERATE race against time to avert a nuclear meltdown was under way in Japan last night. The country appealed to the US for help to control three overheating reactors crippled by Friday’s devastating earthquake. The plea came after a second explosion rocked the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant yesterday, damaging a third reactor.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
PENNY LANCASTER, 53. The model, right, married Rod Stewart in 2007. After appearing on Channel 4’s 2019 reality series Famous and Fighting Crime, Lancaster trained as a special police constable. LYNDA LA PLANTE, 81. The Rada-trained actress is now best known as an author and screenwriter, who created ITV drama series Prime Suspect. In January, she was awarded the Diamond Dagger for lifetime contribution to crime writing by the Crime Writers’ Association
BORN ON THIS DAY
ANDREW JACKSON (17671845). The seventh US president’s portrait has featured on the $20 note for almost a century. His opponents called him a ‘jackass’, so he used a donkey image on his campaign posters. It became the symbol of the Democratic Party. LADY AUGUSTA GREGORY (1852-1932). Lady Gregory played a critical role in Ireland’s literary revival, as a writer and translator herself and as a patron of WB Yeats and others. The initials of many of the giants of Irish literature can be seen on the Autograph Tree at her former home at Coole Park, Co. Galway. ON MARCH 15. . . IN 1939, the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia. IN 1975, Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis died, aged 69, making Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis a widow for the second time.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION: Tirocinium (coined 1651)
A) Gift to a guest; B) a soldier’s first military service; C) a song sung in turn by guests at a banquet.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
The answer to difference is to respect it. Therein lies a most fundamental principle of peace – respect for diversity.
John Hume, Nobel Peace Prize winner
JOKE OF THE DAY
Why shouldn’t you trust stairs? Because they are always up to something.
Guess The Definition answer: B