ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
SEPTEMBER 23, 1982
JUST a month after she wrote off their romance, tennis girl Sue Barker was back with Cliff Richard last night. They held hands, strolled arm-in-arm and agreed: ‘It’s great to be together,’ Sue, 25, flew home in tears from a Spanish holiday last month, saying that the pressure of publicity about their relationship was too much for her. She said then: ‘I don’t know whether we can continue going out romantically,’ adding: ‘I’m never going to marry him.’
SEPTEMBER 23, 1989
IRVING BERLIN, one of the greatest-ever songwriters, died early today aged 101.
In a career spanning more than 80 years, he composed classics such as White Christmas and god Bless America. ‘Berlin has no place in American music — he is American music,’ said the late composer Jerome Kern. His started as a singing waiter, and wrote nearly 1,000 songs, with his first big hit, Alexander’s Ragtime Band in 1911.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, 71. The American singer- songwriter, nicknamed The Boss, (pictured) has been nominated for 50 grammys and won 20. The first song he learned on the guitar was the English folk tune greensleeves. A minor planet, (23990) Springsteen, is named after him.
JULIO IGLESIAS, 77. The Spanish singersongwriter played for Real Madrid’s reserve team before a car accident ended his footballing career. He went on to become a grammy-winning musician, dubbed ‘the original Latin lover’. Last year, a court ruled he is the father of a 42-year-old man whose mother had a brief affair with him in the 1970s. He also has eight other children, including fellow singer Enrique Iglesias.
BORN ON THIS DAY
SUSAN TRAVERS (1909-2003) the Englishwoman (pictured) served in the French Red Cross as a nurse and ambulance driver during World War II and later became the only woman to be matriculated in the French Foreign Legion, having also served in French Indochina, during the First Indochina War. MICKEY ROONEY ( 1920- 2014). The former child star, born Joseph Yule Jr, was the son of vaudeville performers and first trod the boards at 15 months, His debut film was the silent Orchids And Ermine in 1927 and he bowed out 87 years later in Night At The Museum: Secret Of the Tomb in 2014.
ON SEPTEMBER 23…
In 1962, the first episode of sci-fi animated sitcom The Jetsons was broadcast. It has been described as ‘ the single most important piece of 20th century futurism’.
In 1974, Ceefax, a play on ‘see facts’, was launched by the BBC as the first TV text service in the world.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: quaich (c1670)
A) To quickly cool down boiling water B) A Scottish shallow drinking cup C) A slight, tickling cough Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED: The game is up: Suggests a plot exposed; from hunting where the expression is shouted by beaters employed to drive game birds out into the open to face the rifles.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
‘Of course I do my own stunts. And I also do my own lying.’
Sir Roger Moore, actor (1927-2017)
JOKE OF THE DAY
What do triangles have in common with hipsters? They’re so edgy.
Guess The Definition answer: B.