ON THIS DAY
June 13, 2018
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
JUNE 13, 1962 PRINCESS Anne spent the Whitsun weekend under canvas at her first Girl Guide camp. The 11-year- old Princess and her friends in the 1st Buckingham Palace Guide Company went into camp in private grounds in Sussex on Friday and broke camp yesterday. Mrs Geoffrey Gay, the company’s lieutenant said: ‘She took her duties with everybody else, including washing-up.’ JUNE 13, 1966 YOGA mystic L.S. Rao tried to walk on water in Bombay today without getting his feet wet. Six hundred people paid from £7 to £35 each to watch. Mr Rao, who is in his 70s, warmed up by swallowing nails and tacks, drinking nitric acid and walking over red-hot coals, then walked up to a tank of water, put a foot on the surface . . . and sank to the bottom. He blamed his failure on an injury that stopped him reaching a state of levitation.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
MARY- KATE ( near right) and Ashley olsen, 32. The twins — who started their TV careers at nine months on a U.S. sitcom — are now worth an estimated £225 million, largely due to their $1 billion fashion empire. They retired from acting in 2012 to concentrate on their many clothing ranges. Their younger sister elizabeth recently starred in The Avengers films. MALCOLM MCDOWELL, 75. The actor from Leeds, who played Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork orange, said the violence and brutality in the film ‘is basically what has happened’ in the years since its release, though it was based on football hooliganism and clashes between mods and rockers in the Sixties. The film was banned in Britain for more than 40 years — by order of its director, Stanley Kubrick.
BORN ON THIS DAY
MARY WHITEHOUSE (19102001). The art teacher from Warwickshire (right) launched her Clean Up TV campaign in 1963 and accused BBC director- general Sir Hugh Greene of being ‘ the devil incarnate’. In response, he bought a five-breasted nude portrait of Whitehouse — and was said to throw darts at it. BASIL RATHBONE (1892-1967). Best known for playing Sherlock Holmes in 14 Hollywood films, Rathbone won the Military Cross in France in World War I after leading a daylight reconnaissance mission into no Man’s Land with his soldiers camouflaged as trees. He shot a German after they were spotted and his team fled under heavy fire.
ON JUNE 13…
IN 1970, The Beatles had their 20th — and final — American no 1 with The Long And Winding Road.
IN 2000, South Korean president Kim Dae Jung and north Korea’s Kim Jong-il met in northern capital Pyongyang for the first summit between the countries’ leaders.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION: Leek (coined c 1850)
A) Pale green. B) A pathway up a steep hill. C) A chimney-sweep who didn’t grow up in the trade. Answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Time flies: Meaning how time seems to elapse quickly, it comes from the translation of Virgil’s Latin phrase tempus fugit published in 29 BC, and refers to the flight of birds, visible one moment, gone the next.
JOKE OF THE DAY
How does a rabbi make his coffee? Hebrews it. Guess the Definition answer: C
QUOTE FOR TODAY It Is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year. Tom Lehrer, U.S. satirist