ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE SEPTEMBER 4, 1945
An AnnOUnCEMEnT on the disbandment of the Home Guard should clear up the position about uniforms. Home Guards have been at liberty to wear uniforms while gardening and doing odd jobs about the house. Many men are anxious to keep the great-coats for winter.
SEPTEMBER 4, 1968
JAnE ASHER, whose five-year romance with Beatle Paul McCartney ended a month ago, said yesterday: ‘It will be a long time before I get serious again.’ Meanwhile, Paul’s father, Mr Jim McCartney, at home in Gayton, Cheshire, found a coachload of girl Beatle fans on the doorstep. ‘They think they have a chance now that Paul is a free man,’ said Mr McCartney.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
BEyOnCE Knowles-Carter, 37. The U.S. singer- songwriter was nicknamed Dumbo because of her big ears by other children at school, recalling: ‘I used to get teased because they were bigger than my head.’ Last year, Beyonce and husband Jay-Z were named by Forbes as the world’s first $1billion showbusiness couple. MARK ROnSOn, 43. The British musician is probably best known for producing Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black album. Ronson’s stepfather is Mick Jones, the guitarist with Seventies rock band Foreigner, and his uncle is tycoon Gerald Ronson. Mark’s numberone hit Uptown Funk, with Bruno Mars, had members of The Gap Band added to the writing credits because of its similarities to the band’s 1979 disco classic, Oops Upside your Head.
BORN ON THIS DAY
SIR William Lyons (1901-1985). The engineer from Blackpool founded the Jaguar car company. At first it was called Swallow Sidecars, then SS Cars — but changed its name after World War II to avoid confusion with the nazi SS. He had three children: Patricia, who became a champion rally driver; Mary, who bred horses; and John, who died in a crash on his way to the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1955. JOHn McCARTHy (1927-2011). The U.S. computer scientist coined the term ‘artificial intelligence’ in 1955. He triggered many debates on AI, including on whether thermostats could have beliefs, explored the possibilities of computer chess, paved the way for today’s ‘cloud computing’ and predicted the era of ‘e-commerce’.
ON SEPTEMBER 4…
IN 1985, the first pictures of the wreck of the Titanic were released, 73 years after it sank. The AmericanFrench expedition used a submarine 2.5 miles beneath the surface.
IN 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both 25, founded Google.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: woot (2007) A) The cry of a quail. B) A small cry of joy. C) Second swarm of bees in the same season. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Derring-do: Desperate courage; from Chaucer’s Troilus And Criseyde of 1371 in which he describes his hero Troilus as second to none in daring to do what befitted a knight.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
IT IS totally impossible to be well dressed in cheap shoes. Hardy Amies, English couturier (1909-2003)
JOKE OF THE DAY
HOW many opticians does it take to change a lightbulb? Is it one or two? One . . . or two? Guess The Definition answer: B