ON THIS DAY
July 3, 2018
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE JULY 3, 1956
MArIlYn Monroe wed playwright Arthur Miller on Sunday (July 1), it was disclosed yesterday. This ceremony was before rabbi robert Goldberg in new Haven, Connecticut. And it led to speculation that Marilyn may take up the Jewish faith.
JULY 3, 1961
A BoY of 12 became a father and two girls had babies before they were 13.
This is revealed today by the Church of England Moral Welfare Council. The council helped 782 mothers under 16 in 1959. Most of them were 15. But 131 were 14, 20 were 13 and two even younger. The ages of the 654 known fathers ranged from 12 to over 70.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
SIAn lloYD, 60. The Welsh TV presenter, the UK’s longest-serving female weather forecaster, was engaged until 2006 to thenMP lembit opik, who then started dating one of singing duo The Cheeky Girls. When the former lifeguard left ITV in 2014, she wrote of surviving in ‘this age of blatant lookism’, adding: ‘I shall be happy when they dare put a female with as big a belly as Bill Giles on the national Weather.’ SIr ToM SToPPArD, 81. The Czech-born British writer of rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead and the screenplay for Shakespeare In love was the youngest playwright ever taken on by the national Theatre, at 29. He started out as a journalist, but said: ‘I couldn’t believe in my own right to ask people personal questions. I always expected them to throw the teapot at me or call the police.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
KEn rUSSEll (1927-2011). The filmmaker from Southampton directed Women in love, The Devils and Tommy. Dubbed the ‘wild man of British cinema’, his style was described by one critic as ‘an unbridled sense of pictorial madness and decay’. He survived four days in Celebrity Big Brother in 2007, walking out after an argument with housemate Jade Goody. PolY STYrEnE ( 19572011). The punk pioneer from Kent, born Marianne Elliott-Said, studied to be an opera singer before becoming frontwoman of X-ray Spex. She conceded she would be remembered for her anthem, oh Bondage Up Yours!, inspired by Vivienne Westwood’s designs, but added: ‘I’d like to be remembered for something a bit more spiritual.’
ON JULY 3…
IN 1844, the great auk became extinct, when fishermen killed the last confirmed pair of the flightless birds in Iceland. IN 1971, Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors, died aged 27.
GUESS THE DEFINITION
zoilism (1863) a) making bitter criticisms b) an enthusiastic devotion to something c) puppetry Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Discretion is the greater part of valour: meaning to play down a good deed; came to prominence from Shakespeare’s Henry IV; at that time courage and honour were shown as well as practised.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
War settles nothing . . . to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. Agatha Christie, English crime writer (1890-1976)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY do bananas put on sunscreen before they go to the beach? So they don’t peel. Guess The Definition Answer: A