ON THIS DAY
September 26, 2017
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE SEPTEMBER 26, 1940 GERMANy, thanks to the RAF, is at last tasting the bitter medicine her Air Force administered to the defenceless Poles, Dutch, Belgians, and the French. SEPTEMBER 26, 1962 THE shooting by the Prince of Wales of his first stag was condemned last night by 200 supporters of the League Against Cruel Sports. The league, meeting in Westminster, decided to send a resolution to the Queen, Prince Philip, in his capacity of president of the World Wildlife Fund, the heir’s headmaster at Gordonstoun school, the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MINETTE WALTERS, 68. The English crime writer has sold more than £11million worth of books in the UK. The Ice House, The Sculptress and The Scold’s Bridle all became TV series. She was a weekly prison visitor for years and has said: ‘I think most women are amateur psychiatrists. We’re brought up to be like that. We think much more about the whys than most men do.’ SERENA WILLIAMS, 36. The U. S. tennis star (pictured) has won Wimbledon seven times. In 2003, her eldest half- sister, yetunde, was killed in a gang-related drive-by shooting involving a drug- dealing boyfriend. Serena’s £20 million annual earnings made her top woman on a Forbes list of the world’s highest-paid athletes published this year, though she was in 51st place overall. BORN ON THIS DAY ANTHoNy BLUNT (1907-1983). The art historian, a former curator of the Queen’s collection, was exposed in 1979 as having been the ‘fourth man’ in a Soviet spy ring, and was stripped of his knighthood. He confessed to recruiting spies among Cambridge students and passing information to the Russians while working as a British intelligence officer during World War II. JULIE LoNDoN ( 19262000). The U.S. singer and actress (pictured) is best known for her 1955 hit Cry Me A River, which sold three million copies. She was discovered while operating a Los Angeles department store lift, before appearing in more than 20 films in the Forties and Fifties. ON SEPTEMBER 26…
IN 1905, Albert Einstein published his first paper on the Theory of Relativity — on The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies.
IN 1957, the musical West Side Story had its premiere on Broadway.
IN 2008, Swiss pilot yves Rossy, known as ‘Fusionman’, became the first person to fly solo across the English Channel using a single jet-propelled wing. WORD WIZADRY GUESS THE DEFINITION Formication (coined 1707) A) The sensation of bugs crawling over one’s body B) Persistent winking C) A fit of depression PHRASE EXPLAINED All over bar the shouting: Meaning victory is a foregone conclusion and only the cheering of the crowd at the end of the game is to come. QUOTE FOR TODAY THERE is nothing safe about sex. There never will be. Norman Mailer, U.S. novelist (1923-2007) JOKE OF THE DAY I WENT to buy some camouflage trousers . . . but I couldn’t find any. Guess the Definition answer: A.