ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE FEBRUaRy 28, 1997
HER eyes brimming with tears, LeAnn Rimes realises a dream. The 14-year- old country singer was named best new artist and best female country vocalist at the Grammy awards in New York — making her the youngest multiple winner.
FEBRUaRy 28, 2002
PRINCE Charles last night led tributes to Spike Milligan, his friend and the last of The Goons, who died yesterday from kidney failure. In his youth, the Prince was a passionate fan of The Goon Show and wrote hundreds of letters to the comedy team.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
STEPHANIE BEACHAM, 77. The Radatrained actress from Hertfordshire starred in U.S. soap Dynasty, TV drama Tenko and with Marlon Brando in the 1971 film The Nightcomers. She was left ‘profoundly shaken’ in 2022 after confronting a burglar inside her London home.
JAKE BUGG, 30. The singersongwriter from Nottingham, who has been nicknamed the ‘East Midlands
Bob Dylan’, shot to fame when his debut album went to No 1 in 2012. But he was not impressed with his achievement. He said: ‘Anyone can get a No 1 now. You only have to sell, like, 20,000 albums or something.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
RoBIN CooK (1946-2005). The Scottish former foreign secretary resigned as leader of the Commons over the Iraq war. on his gravestone it says: ‘ I may not have succeeded in halting the war but I did secure the right of Parliament to decide on war.’ When a tabloid newspaper was about to reveal that he had been having an affair with his secretary, Cook found out at the airport as he was about to fly off on holiday with Margaret, his wife of 28 years — and decided to leave her. VINCENTE MINNELLI ( 1903- 1986). ‘Golden age Hollywood’s master stylist’ won a best director oscar for Gigi. The husband of Judy Garland and father of Liza made movie classics Meet Me In St. Louis and An American In Paris. French film magazine Cahiers du Cinema said he was ‘ an artist who could give substance to the world of dreams’.
ON FEBRUARY 28 . . .
IN 1974, the General Election resulted in the first hung parliament since 1929.
IN 1994, U.S. fighter planes shot down four Serbian warplanes bombing in violation of Bosnia’s no-fly zone — the first ever Nato military action.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION: Spitchcock (coined 1670s)
A) To prepare an eel for the table. B) one whose hair has never been cut. C) A man who is aware of his wife’s unfaithfulness.
answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED Cat has nine lives:
deriving from the belief that a cat is more tenacious than other animals as it generally lands upon its feet without injury when falling from a height.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Personally, I don’t think there’s intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be different from this one?
Bob Monkhouse, English comedian (1928-2003)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY did the cyclops close his school down? Because he had only one pupil. Guess The Definition answer: a.