ON THIS DAY

FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE MARCH 7, 1939 MR J MORRIS (Con, N. Salford) asked the Prime Minister in the Commons this afternoon if he would consider introducing legislation imposing penalties upon the ‘publication of demonstrably fake news which resulted in causing anxiety and loss to the business community, the Stock Exchange and the general public’. MARCH 7, 1969 SANDIE SHAW was ‘arrested’ in Paris yesterday for being dressed up like a French policeman. Sandie, 22, went to Paris to promote her new record, Monsieur Dupont. Back in London last night, she said: ‘I was clowning around near the President’s pad when these policemen descended on me and I was whipped away to a police station. Everybody was very sweet when they found out that I was genuinely looking for a Monsieur Dupont. It was very nice. I even sang a little of the song.’ HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRYAN CRANSTON, 61. The Oscar-nominated actor won a Golden Globe for his leading role in the TV series Breaking Bad. He has reneged on his promise before the U.S. election to move to Canada if Donald Trump won the presidency. ROBERT HARRIS, 60. The author of Fatherland, Enigma and Archangel was once a political journalist on the BBC’s Panorama and Newsnight. He was one of the first to spot the potential of Tony Blair and became friends with the future PM. But they fell out, and Harris, who has described Blair as a narcissist with ‘a messiah complex’, wrote The Ghost, about an ex-PM accused of war crimes, believed to have been based in part on Blair. BORN ON THIS DAY MAURICE RAVEL (18751937). The French composer’s best- known works include Shéhérazade and Bolero, which accompanied Jay ne Tor villa nd Christopher Dean’s gold medal-winning ice dance (pictured) at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics in 1984. REINHARD HEYDRICH (1904-1942). The high-ranking Nazi was one of the main architects of the Holocaust. He chaired a conference at which he presented plans for a Europe-wide ‘Final Solution of the Jewish Question’. He was killed by members of the Czech Resistance in a British plot codenamed Operation Anthropoid. ON MARCH 7th … IN 1876, inventor Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the telephone. IN 2010, the Oscar for best director was awarded to a woman for the first time — Kathryn Bigelow, for The Hurt Locker. WORD WIZADRY NEW WORD OF THE DAY Hutch up: To move in with someone early on in the relationship. GUESS THE DEFINITION Lirp (coined 1548) A) To disguise the age of a horse by tinkering with its teeth. B) To snap one’s fingers. C) To play with one’s food. Answer below. PHRASE EXPLAINED Loop the loop: Rhyming slang for soup; referring to a late 19th-century act of daring where a performer, strapped to a wheel, whizzed round on a coiled track. QUOTE FOR TODAY TAlk low, talk slow and don’t say too much. JOHN WAYNE, American actor (1907-1979) JOKE OF THE DAY SOME people have trouble sleeping … but I can do it with my eyes closed.

Guess The Definition answer: B