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ON THIS DAY

- Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD

FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

AUGUST 29, 1961 BRITAIN’s first drive-in bingo club is planned for Bristol. Lex Garages has applied for planning permission to use its spiral garage for the venture. Players will signal a win by sounding their car horns. AUGUST 29, 1963 PRESIDENT Kennedy tonight praised the organisers of the biggest demonstrat­ion for black rights America has seen. The steps of the Lincoln Memorial formed the stage for the speechmaki­ng. More than 200,000 marchers massed on the lawns yesterday, picnicking, applauding and singing. dr Martin Luther King told the marchers they had come to Washington to cash a cheque [in his famous ‘I have a dream’ speech].

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

SIR LENNY HENRY, 60. The comedian and actor from dudley in the West Midlands (right) recently lost more than 3st after giving up Hobnobs and instead ‘ eating broccoli and not much else’. The former face of Premier Inn said people used to steal ‘the cardboard cutouts of me from hotel receptions. I guess they put it in their car so they can sit beside a waving Lenny Henry.’ LIAM PAY NE ,25. The Wolverhamp­ton born former member of One direction split from pop star Cheryl Tweedy last month. They first met when he auditioned for The X Factor, aged just 14, and they now have a 17-month-old son, Bear. Liam has a fear of spoons: ‘I don’t like eating with them if they’re not my spoons,’ he has said.

BORN ON THIS DAY

MICHAEL JACKSON (1958-2009). The American ‘King of Pop’ last week lost his crown as creator of the biggest- selling album in U.s. history. According to new figures, The Eagles’ Their Greatest Hits has overtaken the 33- times platinum Thriller. He was once due to record a duet with Freddie Mercury, but the Queen singer reportedly called it off after the eccentric Jackson brought a llama into the studio. DINAH WASHINGTON (19241963). Born Ruth Lee Jones, she had hits with Unforgetta­ble and What A diff’rence A day Makes. Married seven times, she died of an accidental overdose, aged 39. Her funeral was conducted by Aretha Franklin’s baptist minister father. Washington, who styled herself ‘Queen of the Blues’, once told a British concert audience: ‘There’s one heaven, one earth and one queen: Elizabeth is an imposter.’

ON AUGUST 29 . . .

IN 1958, Cliff Richard’s first single, Move It, was released. IN 1982, Casablanca star Ingrid Bergman died in London on her 67th birthday.

WORD WIZARDRY

GUESS THE DEFINITION: Quincunx (1650s) A) An arranged set of five objects. B) A nagging wife. C) A small apple remaining on the tree after harvesting. Answer below

PHRASE EXPLAINED

Cucumber time — meaning ‘the silly season’ of the summer months. This 1850s phrase harks back to a tailoring trade, which could not profit in summer ‘because when cucumbers are in, the gentry are out of town’.

QUOTE FOR TODAY

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. Henry David Thoreau, U.S. writer (1817-1862)

JOKE OF THE DAY

WHAT makes a killer joke? It’s all in the execution. Guess The Definition answer: A.

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