ON THIS DAY
March 11, 2024
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE MARCH 11, 1985
BRITAIN’S first frozen embryo baby, Gregory Jackson, is doing well in the Manchester hospital where he was born on Friday. Mother Janet Jackson, 34, and husband Tony can’t believe that, after eight years of trying for a baby, Gregory is finally here.
MARCH 11, 1991
DENNIS the Menace, a favourite with Beano readers since 1951, is to have a change of image. Out go the red and black hooped jersey, baggy shorts and boots. In come a tracksuit, with knee-rip, trainers, personal stereo and wraparound sunglasses.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
JODIE COMER, 31. The Liverpudlian actress won Baftas for Killing
Eve and Help, plus an Olivier and a Tony for
Prima Facie. Known for mastering accents, she began by impersonating pop star Anastacia when she was about ten: ‘My mum would have her friends around and I’d stand in the hall and do it in front of them.’ JAMES FLEET, 72. The Staffordshireborn actor starred in Sense And Sensibility and played Hugo Horton in The Vicar Of Dibley. He dated Ruby Wax at drama school, and wanted to marry her: ‘She turned me down. She said: “I have to have a maid, and you’ll never be able to afford it.”’
BORN ON THIS DAY
RAOUL WALSH ( 1887- 1980). A master of the golden age of Hollywood, he directed 1915’s Regeneration — one of the earliest feature-length gangster films. Walsh was a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences but never won an Oscar himself.
NIGEL LAWSON (Baron Lawson of Blaby, 1932-2023). Father of TV cook Nigella and Mail columnist Dominic, he was Margaret Thatcher’s chancellor for six years. They fell out and he quit, but she said later: ‘If it comes to drawing up a list of Conservative, even Thatcherite, revolutionaries, I’d never deny Nigel a leading place on it.’
ON MARCH 11. . .
IN 1997, Paul McCartney (right) became the first Beatle to be knighted. IN 2020, the World Health Organisation declared the Covid-19 outbreak a pandemic.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION: Garbist (coined 1640)
A) An old man who tells anecdotes. B) One adept at polite behaviour. C) A female gatherer of wool.
answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED:
Lynch law: meaning mob law, it refers to Charles Lynch from Virginia, U.S, who, as a judge in the 1700s, meted out unauthorised punishments.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.
Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary
of State (1937-2021)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT was the name of the Greek philosopher of rice? arisotto. Guess The Definition answer: B.