ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE JUNE 11, 1966
MARY QuANT, 33-year- old pop-fashion designer, is made an OBE in today’s Birthday Honours. She began her career as a £2 10s-a-week milliner’s assistant and now has a turnover of around £2.5million a year.
JUNE 11, 1968
CRISIS for Mr Jeremy Thorpe flared last night after moves to force him out of the Liberal leadership. An influential group of Liberal MPs may demand immediate changes in his style of leadership. One complaint is that Mr Thorpe, 39, is too fond of socialite life instead of getting out and meeting people.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
DIANA MORAN, 79. The keep-fit expert was BBC Breakfast Time’s leotardwearing ‘Green Goddess’ in the Eighties (right). She said her popularity was because ‘I wasn’t a dancer of 22, but a 43-year- old mum with two sons in their 20s, so there was a bit of respect there’. Moran, who has twice survived cancer, said she made so much money starring in adverts for Oil of ulay that ‘I bought a house and called it “ulay” ’. SIR JACKIE STEWART, 79. The Dunbartonshire-born three-time Formula One champion campaigned tirelessly for safety improvements after many of his rivals died racing and was the first driver to wear a seatbelt. He says his biggest disappointment was not taking Andy Warhol up on an offer to pose for one of his prints.
BORN ON THIS DAY
GENE WILDER ( 19332016). The American actor, born Jerome Silberman, starred in Blazing Saddles, The Producers and Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (right). He studied acting in Britain, at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and became the first American to win the English Schools Fencing Championship. After his mother had a heart attack when he was eight, her doctor told him: ‘Don’t ever get angry with her, you might kill her. You can make her laugh, though.’ DAME MILLICENT FAWCETT (18471929). In April, the English suffragist leader became the first woman honoured with a statue in Parliament Square. She campaigned non-violently for women’s suffrage from her 20s, but had to wait until she was 81 to watch — from the House of Commons public gallery — women being given the vote on the same terms as men in 1928.
ON JUNE 11…
IN 1509, Henry VIII married his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. IN 2002, Paul McCartney married Heather Mills. They divorced six years later.
WORD WIZARDRY
FORPLAINT (COINED 1423) a) Tired from complaining. b) Anything badly formed or out of shape. c)Child that dies within a month of birth. Answer below. PHRASE EXPLAINED Once a week
— rhyming slang for beak, as in a magistrate; in heady days many saw the beak once a week as a result of excessive partying on a Saturday night.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
ThE best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up Paul Valéry, French poet (1871-1945)
JOKE OF THE DAY
I ACCuSED my friend of pouring glue on my weapons... he denied it, but I’m sticking to my guns. Guess The Definition answer: A