ON THIS DAY
November 3, 2022
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE NOVEMBER 3, 1959
BRITAIN’S gambling habits will be revolutionised in the next two years. a Bill published last night sweeps away laws more than 400 years old. It introduces betting shops to England for the first time, making the cash bet legal at last.
NOVEMBER 3, 1987
SOVIET leader Mikhail Gorbachev tore into his feuding critics in front of millions of Russians yesterday in a televised speech to mark the 70th anniversary of the revolution.
He blasted both the Kremlin old guard intent on blocking his sweeping reforms and the young radicals who want him to move faster.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
DOLPH LUNDGREN, 65.
The 6 ft 5 in Swedish actor starred in Rocky IV, a View
To a Kill and The Expendables. He described his career as a fighter and then an actor as therapy, as it helped him figure out ‘a lot of issues from my childhood’. He has a degree in chemical engineering, and said: ‘ I’m stereotyped as a beefcake, but I think of myself as an intellectual.’ LORD (KENNETH) BAKER of dorking, 88. The Conservative Education Secretary under Mrs Thatcher (bringing in the national Curriculum) and Home Secretary under John Major ( introducing the dangerous dogs act), he was unhappy about being portrayed as a glasses-wearing slug on Spitting Image. ‘It lacked subtlety, wit and all those things that maintained satire over the ages,’ he said.
BORN ON THIS DAY
MONICA VITTI (1931-2022). The ‘Italian Garbo’ starred in Modesty Blaise (right) and l’avventura, which was booed by the audience at Cannes in 1960, but was awarded the festival’s Special Jury Prize. according to one obituary: ‘Her sharp, patrician features and icy demeanour provided a visual and stylistic counterpoint to the working-class voluptuousness of the leading Italian actresses of the period.’ ADOLF (ADI) DASSLER (1900-78). The German entrepreneur, with brother Rudolf, made the shoes U.S. athlete Jesse owens wore for his triumph at the 1936 olympics. But the duo fell out and set up rival companies on either side of the river that cut through their town. adi founded sportswear giant adidas while Rudolf set up rival Puma. There are many stories as to what started the feud, including a claim that Rudi had an affair with adi’s wife.
ON NOVEMBER 3…
IN 1972, U.S. singer-songwriters Carly Simon
and James Taylor married in new York.
IN 2002, British skiffle singer lonnie donegan, who reached no 1 with My old
Man’s a dustman, died aged 71.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION:
Furphy (coined 1901)
a) Wild bet on the horses.
B) Friend, a mate.
C) False report; a rumour. Answer below. PHRASE EXPLAINED
In fine feather: To be or act in good spirits; it alludes to birds, who, when breeding, have their plumage in peak condition.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Unhurt people are not much good in the world.
Enid Starkie, Irish academic (1897-1970)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT should you use to light up a stadium? A football match.
Guess the Definition answer: C Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD