ON THIS DAY

FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE OCTOBER 14, 1940

CHILDrEN of the Empire and children in Britain listened last night to the voice of a girl of 14 — Princess Elizabeth — speaking to them in her first ever broadcast from London [on the Children’s Hour]. ‘When peace comes it will be for us, the children of today, to make the world of tomorrow a better and happier place,’ she said, and, as she finished she called, ‘Come on, Margaret,’ and Princess Margaret joined her sister in saying ‘Good-night’.

OCTOBER 14, 1974

SErIoUS doubts about the powers of spoon-bender Uri Geller have been raised by scientists after a nine-month probe into Geller’s secrets at the Stanford research Institute in California. Geller, a 27-year-old former Israeli army private leapt to fame with his cutlery-twisting exploits.