ON THIS DAY
June 5, 2019
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE JUNE 5, 1965
ETON schoolboys threw stinkbombs, when demonstrators — students, mainly from Oxford and Cambridge — marched on the college, calling for an end to public schools. Hundreds of Eton boys in tails gave the protesters a friendly reception, but a few threw missiles. Protesters carried banners such as: ‘Would you let your daughter marry an Etonian…’ (without a question mark).
JUNE 5, 1975
OPPOSITION leader Mrs Margaret Thatcher wore a jumper, worked with all the flags of the Common Market at a pro-Europe rally last night. She lit a torch in the shadow of Sir Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square where young Marketeers prepared to start an all-night, eve- ofpoll vigil. [British voters went on to back continued membership of the EEC.]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
DAVID WEIr, 40. The wheelchair racer, nicknamed the Weirwolf, has six Paralympic golds. He was born without the use of his legs, but said: ‘I have never seen myself as disabled.’ After missing the birth of his fourth child while at the rio Games, and failing to win a medal, he announced his retirement. He has now reversed the decision and has his sights set on Tokyo 2020. MArk WAHLBErG, 48. The star of The Departed and Transformers series, was the world’s highest-paid actor in 2017, earning £53 million. His daily fitness regime involves waking at 2.30am for an hour of prayer, breakfast at 3.15am, a 95-minute workout, a second meal, shower, snack, golf and ‘cryo chamber recovery’, all before 10.30am.
BORN ON THIS DAY
SHEILA SIM ( 19222016). The Liverpoolborn actress was married to richard Attenborough (right, with Sim) for 69 years after they met at rADA. Before giving up her career to support her husband, they starred together in several films and in the 1952 London premiere of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap — which has the longest continuous run of any play. TONy rICHArDSON (1928-1991). The yorkshire-born director of Look Back In Anger and A Taste Of Honey was the husband of Vanessa redgrave and father of Natasha and Joely richardson — all actresses. richardson, who was bisexual, fell in love with redgrave when he saw her in a play. She was granted a divorce after five years on the grounds of his adultery with French film star Jeanne Moreau.
ON JUNE 5…
IN 1947, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall detailed his Marshall Plan to rebuild Western Europe after World War II. IN 1981, the first recognised cases of Aids were reported in the U.S.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION: To star the glaze (c 1786)
A) To stand out, to excel. B) To talk for the sake of talking. C) To break and rob a jeweller’s show-case. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Pull your horns in: To lower your ambitions; comes from snails and the retractable stalks — known as horns — on which their eyes are located. These are pulled in whenever the mollusc is threatened.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
AN idEA that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright (1854-1900)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT do you get if you cross a donkey with an owl? A smart ass. Guess the definition answer: C.