ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE OCTOBER 18, 1965
MORE murder victims are expected to be found buried on the desolate Pennine moors where the body of a ten-year-old girl was discovered on Saturday. The girl was identified last night as Lesley Ann Downey, missing since Boxing Day last year when she left her Manchester home to go to a fair. [Downey was the youngest victim of Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.]
OCTOBER 18, 1968
MRS Jackie Kennedy, 39, has revealed that she is to marry Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. The wedding is expected to take place next week on the island of Scorpios. Mr Onassis owns the island. In New York, reaction to the marriage plan was astonishment, almost disbelief. The news came only a few hours after the couple’s names had been linked romantically for the first time, in an American newspaper.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
FREIDA PINTO, 33. The Indian actress (right) was a model and TV presenter before she shot to fame in Slumdog Millionaire. She had a seven-year relationship with her British co-star Dev Patel, but they split in 2014 because of what Pinto described as her ‘ quarterlife crisis’ at 28. She says she has shunned Bollywood because it doesn’t make the ‘gritty, almost devoid of glitz and glamour’ films that are produced in Britain. JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME, 57. ‘ The Muscles from Brussels’, best known for his martial arts action movies, has starred in films including Kickboxer and Double Impact. The former Mr Belgium, who worked as a cab driver, waiter and nightclub bouncer when he arrived in the U.S., studied classical ballet for five years. He has said: ‘If you can survive a ballet workout, you can survive a workout in any other sport.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
CHUCK BERRY (1926-2017). The U.S. rock ’n’ roll pioneer (right) trained as a hairdresser and was convicted of armed robbery as a teenager. He had hits with Roll Over Beethoven, Sweet Little Sixteen and Johnny B. Goode, and was a major influence on The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. John Lennon once said: ‘If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry.’
ON OCTOBER 18...
IN 1963: Félicette, a female stray taken from the streets of Paris, became the first cat launched into space.
IN 1945: Argentine politician Juan Perón was released from custody, having been ousted in a coup earlier in the month. A few days later he married actress Eva Duarte (Evita) in secret.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION Avenage (coined 1594)
A) Violent, brawling, quarrelsome woman. B) Oats paid to a landlord. C) Gracefully veiled insult. Answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED
To beat about the bush: To approach a matter indirectly. From hunters approaching birds hiding in undergrowth to drive them into the path of another team’s nets.