ON THIS DAY
January 13, 2021
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE JANUARY 13, 1945
A BLOCK of 5,000 10s 6d seats for the Cup Final at Wembley on Saturday, April 7, has been bought by The Daily Mail.
These tickets will be the Daily Mail’s gift to men and women of all the fighting Services on leave from abroad at that time.
Double tickets will be available for Service men wishing to take their wives or sweethearts.
JANUARY 13, 2001
SVEN-GORAN ERIKSSON finally swept into office as england football manager last night with a frank admission that only World Cup qualification will force the sceptics to forget he is Swedish. ‘Football is like this all over the world,’ said eriksson. ‘If you’re Chinese, english, Swedish, Italian or whatever, and the results aren’t coming, you’ll be criticised hard.’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
BILL BAILEY, 56. The comedian and musician from Bath became the oldest winner of Strictly Come Dancing last month. Bailey said he thought he would be ‘the panto contender’ and judge Craig Revel Horwood said he ‘really thought Bill Bailey would be the Ann Widdecombe of this series’. CAROL CLEVELAND, 79. The London-born actress was the ‘ only significant female performer’ in Monty Python, appearing in all their Tv series and films. The former Playboy Bunny has been described as the ‘seventh Python’, but said she had to read the first script ‘several times to try to make sense of it. Her ‘first love’ was fellow Rada student Ian McShane.
BORN ON THIS DAY
IAN HENDRY (1931-84). The actor from Suffolk trained with Judi Dench, who said: ‘I think he was the first student I had ever seen whom I believed had been born an actor.’ He had three marriages, bankruptcy, three driving bans and was found dead at 53 from alcoholism by his 14-year- old daughter, ten months after his last acting role, in Tv’s Brookside. MELBA LISTON (1926-99). The American ‘first lady of the jazz trombone’ blazed a trail for female musicians, but suffered ‘rapes and everything. I’ve been going through that stuff for all my life’. Liston got her first trombone at seven and was playing on the radio from the age of eight. She worked with a galaxy of stars from Billie Holiday to The Supremes.
ON JANUARY 13…
IN 1873, a factory in Ayrshire began manufacturing dynamite (invented by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel). IN 1963, the Beatles made their first national Tv appearance, on ITv’s Thank your Lucky Stars.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: rebus (c 1600) A) diagonally across from something else. B) careless, reckless, happy-go-lucky. C) a puzzle based on pictorial punning. Answer below. PHRASE EXPLAINED: To live or keep in purdah: meaning to keep from public view; the idiom derives from the veil or curtain that kept Muslim and some Hindu women from view by separating their living quarters from the rest of the household.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
The nearest I have ever come to defining good design is that it is simply 98 per cent common sense. Sir Terence Conran, designer (1931-2020)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT’S the coldest place in the world? Chile. Guess The Definition answer: C