ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
APRIL 2, 1999
Couples aiming to mark the new millennium by having a baby are being warned to think twice. A message from the Family planning Association — ‘A baby is for life, not just for the millennium’ — will appear on billboards from early next week.
APRIL 2, 2004
PRINCE William’s personal life was under new scrutiny last night after he was photographed skiing in Klosers, switzerland, with a fellow student said to be his first real girlfriend, Kate Middleton.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
PEDRO PASCAL, 49. The Chileanborn actor starred on TV in narcos and played the title role in star Wars series The Mandalorian. When a young actor told him he was auditioning to play oberyn Martell in Game of Thrones, pascal applied himself and won his breakout role.
DAME PENELOPE KEITH, 84. The Baftawinning actress from surrey played Margo leadbetter in The Good life and Audrey fforbes-Hamilton in To The Manor Born. in the intervals of her plays, she enjoys sudoku puzzles.
BORN ON THIS DAY
MARVIN GAYE (1939-1984). The u. s. singer-songwriter had hits with sexual Healing and i Heard it Through The Grapevine. The songwriters Hall of Fame called him ‘one of the most important artists to come out of Motown’. He was shot dead by his father on the day before his 45th birthday.
HANS CHRISTIAN Andersen (1805-1875). The danish poet and author wrote the fairy tales The snow Queen and The ugly duckling. He overstayed his welcome with Charles dickens, who then pinned up a note: ‘Hans Andersen slept in this room for five weeks — which seemed to the family AGES!’
ON APRIL 2…
IN 1872, samuel Morse, u.s. inventor of Morse Code, died aged 80.
IN 2006, Gnarls Barkley reached UK no 1 with
Crazy, the first song to top the charts on downloads alone.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION Naevus (coined 1690s)
A) Mole or birthmark. B) Amount of liquid by which a container falls short of being full. C) The alphabet.
Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
IN THE LIMELIGHT: said of one in the full glare of publicity; limelight, also known as drummond light after Thomas drummond’s invention in 1826, is an intense white light attained by heating a cylinder of lime in an oxy-hydrogen flame.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Platitudes or otherwise, there are no words to ease the agony of living.
Dame Catherine Cookson, English novelist (1906-1998)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY did the elephant cross the road? To avoid the giraffic jam. Guess The Definition answer: a.