ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE JUNE 28, 1971
As the Reading Jazz and Blues Festival ended last night with 150 drug arrests and a big financial loss, the organiser declared that open-air festivals are on the way out. Brian sommerville, former Beatles road manager, said: ‘the police who dressed as hippies to catch drug users have done a thorough job. A lot of publicity has been given to this, and so future festival organisers will find it difficult to get sites.’
JUNE 28, 1990
HAPPY birthday 38 days early! the Queen Mother rode across horse Guards parade in London yesterday to accept the first of many public tributes in honour of her 90th birthday. Beside her was a smiling princess Margaret, helping out with the waving.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
KAthy BAtes, 74. ‘One of the truly unique American acting powerhouses of the past half-century’ played a socialite in titanic and won an Oscar for Misery. While promoting the film, she was delighted that fans of her psychopathic character asked her to sign axes and sledgehammers. AdAM WOOdyAtt, 54. the actor from east London was the longest- serving cast member in eastenders until he left the role of Ian Beale last year — though it’s been reported he’s in talks to return on a deal worth £300,000 a year. Woodyatt, who won a lifetime achievement award at the British soap Awards in 2013, will be appearing on a new show this summer, undergoing a ‘drag makeover’ on ItV’s Queens For the Night.
BORN ON THIS DAY
CLARIssA edeN, Countess of Avon (1920-2021). the second wife of Anthony eden, she was the oldest living spouse of a former prime minister until her death, aged 101. she is best remembered for saying, during the 1956 suez Crisis, that she ‘felt sometimes that the suez Canal was flowing through my drawing room’. AdRIAN ANthONy GILL (1954-2016). the edinburghborn author and sunday times writer and critic, known as A. A. Gill, courted outrage by calling the Welsh ‘dark, ugly little trolls’ and declaring that the Isle of
Man ‘ smelled of boiled washing’. Gill, who married and divorced the future home secretary, Amber Rudd, in the 1990s, wrote about 150,000 words a year, which his dyslexia forced him to dictate.
ON JUNE 28…
IN 1461, edward IV, a key figure in the Wars of the Roses, was crowned King of england at Westminster Abbey.
IN 2001, former yugoslav president slobodan Milosevic was extradited to the hague to stand trial before the UN war crimes tribunal.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Scrimmage (15th c) A) the process of spreading manure.
B) A street brawl.
C) A rough or vigorous struggle.
Answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED As easy as ABC:
Meaning extremely easy or straightforward; from between the late 15th and 17th centuries, when a child’s first spelling and reading book was called an ABC.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. Herbert Hoover, 31st U.S. President (1874-1964)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT is the king of herbs? Elvis Parsley. Guess The Definition answer: C.