ON THIS DAY
June 1, 2018
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE JUNE 1, 1962
ADOLF EICHMANN was hanged two minutes after midnight. Defiantly, the man who murdered millions of Jews said on the scaffold: ‘long live Germany, long live Argentina [where he was captured], long live Austria...I had to obey the laws of the war and my flag.’
JUNE 1, 1967
TWIGGY, the model girl of the moment, is an outstanding British contribution to the American way of life — courtesy of the unswinging Foreign Office which put her name forward. The 17-year-old londoner with the 32-22-32 figure (right) is one of the winners of a new york award for Britons who have made an impact on the American scene.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
JASON DONOVAN, 50. The singer/actor starred in Australian soap neighbours with Kylie Minogue, whom he once dated and also turned 50 this week. He said: ‘I only started drinking wine at 30; it was all drugs before that,’ but packed them in when he became a dad. The former star of Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in the west End, he is on his Jason Donovan And His Amazing Midlife Crisis Tour.
GERALD SCARFE, 82. The london-born cartoonist has found his work sometimes puts him in delicate situations, saying: ‘The week after I drew Princess Margaret as a warthog in Private Eye I had dinner with her at Kensington Palace.’ A new species of pterosaur found on the Jurassic Coast was named Cuspicephalus scarfi after him because it reminded palaeontologists ‘of my drawings of Mrs Thatcher — it’s got a very beaky nose and it’s rather aggressive’.
BORN ON THIS DAY
MARILYN MONROE (19261962). In 2016, the sparkling gown (right) worn by the film icon to sing Happy Birthday to John F. Kennedy in 1962 set the world record for the most expensive dress sold at auction, fetching £3.8 million.
BILL DEEDES (1913-2007). An MP for 24 years, he became editor of The Daily Telegraph. Deedes was the inspiration for the recipient of Private Eye’s spoof Dear Bill letters. He was known for his mixed metaphors, or ‘Billisms’, including: ‘we’ve got to nail our matchbox to the mast.’
ON JUNE 1 . . .
IN 1943, English actor leslie Howard died when a plane carrying him was shot down by the luftwaffe over the Bay of Biscay. Some believe the nazis thought it was carrying winston Churchill.
IN 1974, Dr Henry Heimlich first described the ‘Heimlich manoeuvre’, for rescuing choking victims.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Gigmania (coined by Carlyle in 1830)
A) Enthusiasm. B) Obsession with attaining middle-class respectability. C) A state of depression of spirits. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED Rise and shine — meaning to get up and start your daily routine with energy. Common since the 19th century, when soldiers were ordered to wake early with the sun.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
It Is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass, African-American slavery abolitionist (1818-1895)
JOKE OF THE DAY
I USED to be addicted to not showering. But I’ve been clean for three years. Guess the Definition answer: B