ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
JANUARY 16, 1937 A CORONATION season of a splendour unsurpassed in the history of the empire is heralded by the full programme, published today, of the celebrations approved by King George VI. As a background to the pageant of the Coronation itself, on May 12, will be a dazzling series of Court levees, banquets and other high ceremonies lasting until July 22. selected london buildings will be floodlit. A letter has been sent to 100 town clerks by the County of london electric supply Company, offering to supply electricity free to local authorities for the flood-lighting of public buildings and streets.
JANUARY 16, 1942 MR ANTHONY EDEN, the foreign secretary, has banned women diplomats as long as the war lasts. last september, 22 women MPs went to see him and urged that women should be admitted into the diplomatic and consular services.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
KATE MOSS, 44. The supermodel from Croydon (pictured) has appeared on more Vogue covers in the UK and worldwide than anyone else. Though she’s spent 30 years in the public spotlight, she hates social media and says: ‘I couldn’t think of anything worse than people knowing what I’m doing all the time.’
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA, 38. The American composer, lyricist and actor is best known for creating hit musical Hamilton, now in the West end. It was described by Michelle Obama as ‘the best piece of art in any form I have ever seen’ and by Donald Trump — who has not seen it — as ‘highly overrated’. A big fan of Ricky Gervais’s sitcom The Office, when Miranda first visited Britain, as soon as he landed he made a pilgrimage to slough, where the series was set.
BORN ON THIS DAY
ERIC LIDDELL (1902-1945). British Olympic champion (right) at 400m in Paris in 1924 whose victorious run was famously portrayed in the film Chariots Of fire. Born in China to scottish missionary parents, he also became a missionary and returned to China, but was interned in 1943 by the Japanese and died of a brain tumour as a prisoner of war.
RENE ANGELIL (1942-2016). The Canadian music producer is best known for discovering Celine Dion, aged 12, then going on to marry her when she was 26 and he was 52. Under his guidance, Dion went on to win eurovision and sing the title track of Disney’s Beauty And The Beast, which won an Oscar in 1992. The couple, who had three children together, were still together when he died.
ON JANUARY 16…
IN 1942, U.s. actress Carole lombard, wife of Clark Gable, died, aged 33, in a plane crash. IN 2007, U.s. senator Barack Obama launched his bid for the White House.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Bezoar (1580) A) A spur fitted to a fighting cock’s heel. B) A stone from a goat’s stomach; considered a universal antidote to poisons. C) Wealth, riches. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Warts and all: A true representation, showing defects and good points. from Oliver Cromwell who, sitting for a portrait, asked to be painted as the artist saw him, including his large nose and blemishes.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
WHAT’S missing from pop music is danger. Prince, singer-songwriter (1958-2016)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT do deaf fish wear? Herring-aids. Guess The Definition answer: B.