October 18, 2022 ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE OCTOBER 18, 1980
THEIR hands clasped in friendship: the Queen and the Pope met yesterday in the Vatican. It was a warm, relaxed encounter between the head of the Church of England and John Paul II, leader of the world’s roman Catholics. [It was the first state visit to the Vatican by a British monarch.]
OCTOBER 18, 1993
SHE may have been Pretty Woman, but her fashion sense was judged pretty awful yesterday. Actress Julia roberts, 25 (right), was named by People magazine in America as one of the year’s ten worst- dressed stars. Sharon Stone headed the best-dressed list.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
MIKE TINDALL, 44. The ex-rugby union star from West Yorkshire married Princess Anne’s daughter Zara in 2011 and last year helped deliver their third child, Lucas Philip, on their bathroom floor. reportedly soon to appear on I’m A Celebrity, he says the royals are ‘fantastic’, adding: ‘How many families say that they will get together as a whole family six to eight times a year?’
RHOD GILBERT, 54. The comedian from Carmarthen has hosted shows such as The Apprentice: You’re Fired and Never Mind The Buzzcocks. In July, he revealed he was being treated for cancer at a Cardiff centre of which he is a patron. Gilbert said: ‘I wouldn’t wish this on anyone . . . but maybe I’ll come out the other end with a new stand-up show and a 40-minute rant about orange squash.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
MELINA MERCOURI (1920-1994). The Greek actress won the Cannes Best Actress award and an Oscar nomination for 1960’s Never On Sunday. She became her country’s minister of culture. Mercouri said: ‘It became impossible not to interfere in politics. When you are born Greek, you are always in a state of alert about social things.’
MIRIAM HOPKINS (19021972). The U. S. actress starred in The Heiress and Becky Sharp, the first fulllength film in Technicolor (right). She admitted: ‘I’ve always had bad judgment about plays and movies. I turned down Broadway and I turned down Twentieth Century, and I also turned down the movie, It Happened One Night, which won Claudette Colbert an Academy Award.’
ON OCTOBER 18…
IN 1922, the BBC — then the British Broadcasting Co., Ltd. — was founded by a group of wireless manufacturers.
IN 1931, American Thomas Edison died, aged 84, as the most prolific inventor in U.S. history with 1,093 patents.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION
Ligger (coined 1969)
A) A freeloader. B) An old man dressing young. C) A street urchin. Answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Run something up the flagpole: Meaning to test the popularity of a new idea. It comes from the idea of hoisting a flag to determine whether it causes the positive response of a salute.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Always forgive your enemies — but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. President (1917-1963)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT’S yellow and always points north? A magnetic banana.
Guess The Definition answer: A. Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD