February 4, 2020 ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
FEBRUARY 4, 1957
THE final stages of the birth of a baby will be shown for the first time on British television in BBC’s Panorama tonight. They are an excerpt from a film made in South Africa by Dr Grantly Dick- Read, pioneer of the Natural Child Birth movement. Viewers will see the moment of birth.
FEBRUARY 4, 1995
FOUR hundred miles above the Earth last night, scientist Dr Michael Foale, 38, was preparing to become the first British- born astronaut to walk in space after blasting off aboard the shuttle Discovery from Florida yesterday. His parents told how he had wanted to go into space since he was six.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Natalie IMBRUGLIA, 45.
The Australian singer and actress ( pictured), who started out on the soap Neighbours, had a worldwide hit with the song Torn, which was nominated for a Grammy. She is friends with former Tory Secretary of
State for international Trade Liam Fox, and even thanked him on the sleeve notes of her debut album.
PETER ALLEN, 74. The BBC broadcaster has been with Radio 5 Live since its launch in 1994 and hosted its breakfast show with Jane Garvey for 13 years. in 2007, it was reported that he had been rejected for a job on Radio 4’ s Today programme because, as an ‘ Essex boy’ who had not been to oxbridge, he was not posh enough to host it.
BORN ON THIS DAY
ROSA PARKS ( 1913- 2005), pictured. She was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a crowded bus in Montgomery, Alabama, which led to a city- wide bus boycott. it ended up being one of history’s most successful mass demonstrations against racial segregation, helping to launch the U. S. civil rights movement. LORD ( HARTLEY) SHAWCROSS ( 19022003). The German- born British Labour MP and peer served as attorney general and chief British prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials of leading Nazis. His first case as a barrister saw him defending a man who had sold a parrot that would not speak to its new owner. He won the case when the parrot broke its silence in court.
ON FEBRUARY 4…
IN 1977, Fleetwood Mac released their album Rumours, which became one of the bestselling records of all time.
IN 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched his new social networking site, called TheFacebook.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Pharology ( c 1847)
A) Study of lighthouses.
B) omission of one of a pair of sounds or syllables.
C) Study of abnormal growths. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
San fairy Ann: Meaning it doesn’t matter. From military slang derived from the French phrase ca ne fait rien, brought back to Britain by world war i soldiers returning from the trenches.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
In Gap, I’m only a size 12, because they’re American. In Marks & Spencer, I’m only a size 3 because they don’t want to upset anybody.
Victoria Wood, comedian and actress ( 1953- 2016)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY did the coffee file a police report?
Because it was mugged. Guess The Definition answer: A.