ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE AUGUST 6, 1986
PRINCESS Anne rode a copybook race aboard Gulfland to romp home by five lengths at Redcar yesterday for her first win as a jockey. It was 13th time lucky for the Princess who has been racing for just over a year — and the fulfilment of a burning ambition.
AUGUST 6, 1963
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV gave the world a toast to peace tonight at the biggest EastWest celebration since the war. Champagne glasses clinked all the way down the 200-yard-long white Czarist Palace of St George in the Kremlin. The celebration followed the signing of the nuclear test ban treaty in St Catherine’s Hall, watched by u Thant, united nations Secretary-General.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
GERI HORNER, 47 (pictured). The Watfordborn Spice Girl, then Geri Halliwell, started her career as a hostess on a Turkish Tv game show. upon meeting nelson Mandela in 1997, she told him he was her hero. He said: ‘You’re just being kind to an old man,’ to which she replied: ‘You’re as young as the girl you feel — and I’m 25.’ SIR CHRIS BONINGTON, 85. The English mountaineer, dubbed ‘Britain’s greatest living climber’, made the first British ascent of the north wall of the Eiger and has climbed Everest four times. But he said last year that long queues and tourists now mean ‘it’s awful . . . thank God I don’t have to go back’.
BORN ON THIS DAY
LORD (ALFRED) TENNYSON (1809-92). The Lincolnshire- born poet was Poet Laureate for more than 40 years. He coined the adjective ‘airy-fairy’ and was best known for The Charge of The Light Brigade and In Memoriam, which included the line, ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all’. ELISABETH BERESFORD (1926-2010). The Paris-born English children’s author ( pictured) created The Wombles after a Boxing Day family trip to Wimbledon Common — or Wombledon Common, as her daughter, Kate, named it. When she received an MBE in 1998, Beresford claimed: ‘The Queen’s a mad Womble fan. I think it was a bit of light relief for her.’
ON AUGUST 6…
IN 1991, English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee published the first website. It described the World Wide Web and explained how to use it.
IN 2011, riots in England were triggered by the police shooting of 29-year-old Mark Duggan, leading to violence and looting lasting several days and leaving five people dead.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION: Plogging (2017)
A) To make someone seem to be outside of, and unlike members of, a group. B) Recreational activity that combines jogging with picking up litter. C) nausea from looking at electronic screens.
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Blaze a trail: To be the first to do something; first used in Montana in 1883, a blaze is a mark left on a tree to show trail hikers that it is part of a path; so someone who blazes a trail is the first to leave marks for others to follow.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep. Fran Lebowitz, American author
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY is a library the tallest building in town? it has the most stories. Guess The Definition answer: B.