ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
JUNE 19, 1946 THE gravity of Britain’s food position was gloomily admitted last night by the Minister of Agriculture, Tom Williams, who declared: ‘I recognise that it is a very grim and melancholy situation.’ It’s estimated this winter non-priority customers might get no more than 1¼ pints of milk a week. The egg average may be four at the best. JUNE 19, 1963 IN A SICkENING welter of blood, Henry Cooper’s big fight at Wembley last night ended in the fifth round — just as Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) had said it would. It was ended, not by the Louisville Lip, but by Elizabeth Taylor screaming from her ringside seat, the crowd chanting ‘stop the fight’ and the ref — in that order.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
kATHLEEN TURNER, 63. The star of Body Heat and Romancing The Stone (right with co- star Michael Douglas), grew up in Cuba, Venezuela and London as the daughter of a U.S. diplomat. She publicly criticised two of her leading men: Nicolas Cage, for bad manners, and Burt Reynolds, for being a ‘sexist pig’. SADIE FROST, 52. The actress and film producer is the ex-wife of Spandau Ballet’s Gary kemp and actor Jude Law. She was a child star who appeared in a Jelly Tots advert aged three. She’s never eaten meat.
BORN ON THIS DAY
EARL HAIG (1861-1928). The Edinburghborn field marshal led British forces on the Western Front for most of World War I and ordered the Somme offensive. He was descended from the famous whisky distillers — whose latest incarnation is advertised by David Beckham. WALLIS SIMPSON (1896-1986). The twicedivorced U.S. socialite’s real name was Bessie — but she ditched it because that’s what ‘so many cows are called’. Her affair with Edward VIII sparked his abdication. Nazi foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop was said to have been one of her lovers — it was claimed he sent her 17 carnations to mark the times they had slept together.
ON JUNE 19...
IN 1917, king George V changed the Royal Family’s Germansounding surname, SaxeCoburg-Gotha, to Windsor.
IN 1978, Ian Botham, right, became the first cricketer in history to score a century and take eight wickets in one Test match innings — against Pakistan at Lord’s.