ON THIS DAY
June 16, 2016
IT’S DAY 168 of 2016
THe average woman puts 168 chemicals on her body every day through the use of makeup and other beauty products. THe longest place name in the world is the poetic Thai name for Bangkok which has
168 letters — ‘Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit’. It is usually abbreviated to a simple ‘ Krung Thep’ — which means City of Angels.
THERE ARE 198 DAYS LEFT
FURNITURe giant Ikea printed 198 million copies of its 2015 catalogue — compared to 40 million copies of The Bible in 2014. BUNGee jumper Ron Jones successfully dunked a doughnut into a cup of coffee at the bottom of a 198ft jump in 2013.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
JAMeS Bolam, 81. The Sunderland- born actor, known for When The Boat Comes In and as ageing detective Jack Halford in New Tricks. After a minor disagreement, he has not spoken to Rodney Bewes — his partner in The likely lads, the sitcom that made him famous — for 40 years. JURGeN Klopp, 49. The charismatic German manager of liverpool Football Club, who famously declared himself ‘the normal one’ is known for his dry sense of humour. When asked how he felt, having just beaten Bayern Munich, to win the German league, he replied: ‘It could have been warmer’.
BORN ON THIS DAY
ENOCH Powell ( 1912- 1998). The controversial Birmingham-born British politician, once seen as a potential future Prime Minister, whose ‘ Rivers of Blood’ speech in 1968, criticising levels of immigration, saw him sacked from the Cabinet and eventually leave the Conservative Party. He was fluent in eight languages, including Welsh and Urdu. STAN laurel (1890-1965). Born in Ulverston, Cumbria, he found fame as half of the most popular comedy duo of the black and white era, laurel and Hardy, who made 107 films together. Unlike most movie stars, his number was listed in the phone book — and fans were amazed to hear him answer the phone at his California home — aspiring young comedian Dick Van Dyke called him for advice and even visited him there.
ON JUNE 16th...
IN 1816, 18-year- old Mary Godwin had a nightmare about a scientist who created a human being. Two years later, and by then married to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, she turned her bad dream into a book — Frankenstein.
IN 1961, Rudolf Nureyev, one of the world’s greatest ballet dancers, evaded his Soviet minders at Paris airport and defected to the West.
IN 1974, Dr Henry Heimlich first publicised a type of abdominal thrust to stop a person choking — which is now known worldwide as the Heimlich Manoeuvre — in an article in the Chicago Daily News. And only last month, Dr Heimlich, now aged 96, used his technique to save a life when a fellow resident at his retirement home in Cincinnati began choking at the dinner table.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Education is not a function of any church, or even of a city or a state. it is a function of all mankind.
Author Philip Wylie (1902-1971)
JOKE OF THE DAY
What always has a bottom at the top? your legs.