ON THIS DAY
October 1, 2018
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
OCTOBER 1, 1938 YESTERDAY was the best day the Stock Exchange has had in years, following the news that Mr Chamberlain’s magnificent peace efforts with Herr Hitler had been crowned with success. But it also sparked renewed buying and fresh rises in prices. OCTOBER 1, 1969 THE British Legion is looking for 50,000 girls in mini-skirts to sell remembrance poppies. British Legion official Mr Roger Braban said yesterday: ‘We want more young girls to collect for our Poppy Day appeal. Some of our regular collectors are getting old and dolly girls are very good at getting in the money.’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
THERESA MAY, 62. Britain’s second female prime minister met her husband-tobe, Philip, at an Oxford University Conservatives disco in 1976. Her favourite drink is a St Clement’s, orange juice mixed with bitter lemon. May is said to have become so frustrated with a civil servant’s failure to answer a question that she banged her head on the table. BRIE LARSON, 29. The American actress will be the first woman to play the lead role in a Marvel superhero film when Captain Marvel is released next year. She won the best actress Oscar in 2016 for her role in Room, playing a woman kept in a shed with her young son. To prepare, she barricaded herself in her flat for a month.
BORN ON THIS DAY
BONNIE PARkER (1910-1934). The American criminal, described as ‘history’s most stylish bank robber’, was immortalised on screen by Faye Dunaway in the 1967 film Bonnie And Clyde. Parker and Clyde Barrow went on a 21-month crime spree, robbing banks, petrol stations and restaurants, and met their end in a police shootout. It’s said 20,000 people filed past her casket. HENRY III (1207-1272). The king of England came to the throne aged just nine in 1216. He kept an extraordinary menagerie of animals at the Tower of London, including three leopards, the first elephant ever seen in England, and a polar bear. Henry, who was afraid of thunder and lightning, was responsible for building Westminster Abbey.
ON OCTOBER 1…
IN 1971, Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida.
IN 1982, the first commercial CD player, made by Sony, went on sale in Japan.
WORD WIZARDRY
A) A scarecrow. B) Language so altered as to be unintelligible. C) Love letter. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Be a guinea pig: Meaning the subject of research or testing; neither a pig nor from Guinea, it’s actually a rodent from South America and was used for medical experiments in the 19th century. The phrase’s first usage — in reference to a human who was being experimented upon — was by George Bernard Shaw in 1913.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
THE less we indulge our pleasures, the more we enjoy them Juvenal, Roman satirist (AD 60-140)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY did the nurse need a red pen? In case she needed to draw blood. Guess The Definition answer: B.