ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE OCTOBER 11, 1963
The Beatles are moving to London. Mr Brian Epstein, 29, who manages the top Liverpool ‘beat’ group, is shifting his entire organisation next year. John Lennon, 22, leader of The Beatles, said: ‘The Liverpool fans made us and we’ll never forget it.’
OCTOBER 11, 1968
POLICE took one look at traffic warden Barbara Mitchell and decided she was . . . a road safety hazard. Reason: the skirt of her uniform was four inches above the knee. So Barbara, 27, a pretty redhead, was ordered to lower the hem. Back on duty in Luton, she said: ‘ I was told it would be too distracting for motorists. I had to agree.’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
JOHN NETTLES, 75. The Midsomer Murders star insists he hasn’t cried since 1970, when his father died. he said the Queen was a fan of the show and heard the royals ‘had discussions about the pronunciation of Midsomer’. Nettles, who also played TV’s Bergerac, was glad to get rid of his character’s 1947 Triumph Roadster, which ‘would never start’, adding: ‘The man who bought it wrote me a stinking letter that it failed its MOT!’ DARYL HALL, 72. The singing half of hall & Oates, with guitarist John, had six No1 hits in the U.S. including Maneater and I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do). They met in 1967 during a fight between gangs at college. hall has a side-line restoring and preserving historic homes in the U.S. and the UK.
BORN ON THIS DAY
HENRY JOHN HEINZ (18441919). The U.S. ‘pickle king’ founded Hj heinz Company, which used the slogan ‘57 Varieties’. When he came up with it, the firm sold far more lines, but he wanted to copy a shoe shop ad boasting of ‘21 styles’ — and felt ‘seven’ was a lucky number. his parents came to the U.S. from Germany — and the family is related to Donald Trump, whose grandfather came from the same village as them. EMILY DAVISON (1872-1913). The suffragette, who died after she stepped in front of King George V’s horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby, was one of the votes-forwomen activists who bombed then-Chancellor David Lloyd George’s house in 1913. After blockading herself in her Strangeways Prison cell, a guard forced a hose inside and almost filled it with water. She was awarded 40 shillings’ compensation because of it.
ON OCTOBER 11…
IN 1982, henry VIII’s flagship, the Mary Rose, was raised from the Solent, 437 years after it sank on its way to fight the French.
IN 2016, rock star Rod Stewart became Sir Roderick and said of his knighthood that he would ‘wear it well’.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION: Dekko (1888)
A) Upside down. B) Diagonally across from something else. C) A quick look. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
To have no truck with: Meaning to disagree with or refuse to have dealings with; first use dates to 1850 but the word ‘truck’ comes from Old French ‘troquer’, to obtain goods by barter or to give in exchange.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
ARCHITECTURE is the art of how to waste space. Philip Johnson, U.S. architect (1906-2005)
JOKE OF THE DAY
AS I suspected, someone has been adding soil to my allotment. The plot thickens. Guess The Definition answer: C.