ON THIS DAY
September 3, 2018
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
SEPTEMBER 3, 1943 ADMIRAL Sir Edward Evans told the East Ham Civil Defence Services yesterday: ‘Women involved in war work all over the country have set an example, which makes men work harder, drink less, moan less and be more humorous than ever.’ SEPTEMBER 3, 1964 THE Beatles were booed by 200 policemen as they were smuggled into a back entrance of the Convention Hall in Philadelphia for tonight’s performance. And they booed back. Policemen said that the booing was nothing personal. They were protesting at extra hours worked during last week’s race riots and for the security of The Beatles, who had just arrived from Atlantic City.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
GARETH SOUTHGATE, 48. The waistcoat-clad England manager (pictured) was, until recently, best known for missing a penalty against Germany in the Euro ’96 semi-finals. This year, he led his team to fourth place at the World Cup in Russia. When in Crystal Palace’s youth team, his manager told him he should become a travel agent ‘because I don’t think football’s going to be for you’. STEVE JONES, 63. The London-born former member of the Sex Pistols had no problem with his band using Nazi imagery, saying he cared more about shaking ‘things up than worrying about hurting someone’s feelings’. He once said: ‘We’re not into music. We’re into chaos.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
ALAN LADD (1913-1964). The American actor — star of The Great Gatsby (1949) and Shane (1953) — was only 5ft 6in and had to stand on a box while performing love scenes. His cool customer persona on screen belied a somewhat calamitous life off it: aged five, he accidentally burned down the family home while playing with matches, and in 1962 Ladd shot himself in the shoulder while trying to clean a gun at his ranch. DIANE DE POITIERS (1499-1566). The chief mistress of 16th-century French king Henry II was poisoned by a gold elixir that she drank as an anti-ageing remedy, scientists discovered in 2009. Researchers examining her hair found the concoction, made from gold chloride and diethyl ether, contained 500 times the normal level of gold, as well as mercury.
ON SEPTEMBER 3…
IN 1189, King Richard I (the Lionheart) was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
IN 2010, pop star Cheryl Cole and footballer Ashley Cole (pictured) were granted a divorce after less than four years of marriage, on the grounds of his unreasonable behaviour.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Zemblanity (1962) A) The delusion that one is of heavenly descent. B) The making of unhappy or unlucky expected discoveries by design. C) A likeness; a resemblance. Answer below PHRASE EXPLAINED
Head over heels: Refers to one who has fallen madly in love. Originally the phrase was ‘heels over head’, but it was changed at the end of the 18th century.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
THE first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone Martin Amis, British author
JOKE OF THE DAY
My BOSS says he’ll fire the employee with the worst posture. I have a hunch it might be me. Guess The Definition answer: B.