ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
OCTOBER 11, 1971 SINGER Rod Stewart has just chalked up a pop first. The 26-year-old is topping both the album and single charts in Britain and America simultaneously, a feat which eluded even The Beatles. not bad going for somebody who, judged by any normal standards, can’t sing to save his life. His gravel voice is little more than a croak. OCTOBER 11, 1980 MRS THATCHER put the country on alert yesterday for another winter battle with the unions. At the Tory conference in Brighton, she said: ‘To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to; the lady is not for turning.’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
JoAn CUSACk, 57. The twice oscar-nominated U.S. actress starred in Working Girl and voiced Jessie (right) the cowgirl doll in three Toy Story films. The sister of fellow actors Ann and John, she says her dream for her children is that ‘they’re never as shy as I am’. SIR BoBBY CHARlTon, 82. A World Cup winner for England in 1966, he had survived the 1958 Munich Air Disaster in which eight of his Manchester United team-mates were among 23 people killed. later, Sir Bobby urged United to give a schoolboy called David Beckham a chance after he attended his football schools. ‘Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves,’ he has said. ‘Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
lUkE PERRY (1966-2019). The U.S. actor, who died in March aged 52 after a stroke, became a heart-throb in the 1990s thanks to his role on TV’s Beverly Hills, 90210. Formerly a worker in a doorknob factory, he was once reported to be dating Madonna, and had to be smuggled out of a public appearance in a laundry basket for fear of being mobbed by his female fans. ElEAnoR RooSEVElT (1884-1962). The wife of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor (right) was walked down the aisle by another president, her uncle and FDR’s fifth cousin, Theodore. Her greatest legacy was as the driving force behind the Un’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She said: ‘Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you’ll be criticised anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.’
ON OCTOBER 11 . . .
IN 1919, passengers on a flight from london to Paris enjoyed the first in-flight meals — lunch boxes costing three shillings each.
IN 1991, Apple Computers settled a lawsuit involving payment of around $26.5million with The Beatles’ record company Apple Corps over name and logo rights.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Harry (c 1400) A) The second swarm of bees in a season. B) To ravage, waste, spoil. C) A crook. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Brevity is the soul of wit — meaning the funniest statements are short and to the point; from a line by Polonius in Shakespeare’s Hamlet of 1602.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
ALL actors should be treated like cattle. Sir Alfred Hitchcock, (1899-1980)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY did the pillow cross the road? It was picking up the chicken’s feathers. Guess The Definition answer: B.