ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
MARCH 2, 1936 MIllIoNS of people in all corners of the world, yesterday heard the first radio message broadcast by the King. He said: ‘It has been an ancient tradition of the British Monarchy that the new Sovereign should send a written message to his peoples. Science has made it possible for me to make that written message more personal and to speak to you all over the radio.’
MARCH 2, 1950 THE latest New York craze is inventing names for imaginary birds, such as the bluenosed killjoy, the extra-marital lark and the red-headed henpecker. Telephone conversations are spreading the game, with remarks like: ‘Seen any scarlet teenagers or crested dowagers up your way?’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
JoN BoN JovI, 58. The American singersongwriter, born John Bongiovi, is the frontman of Bon Jovi, who have sold over 120million records. on Friday, he was joined by Prince Harry in the Abbey Road Studios, london — made famous as the studio of The Beatles in the 1960s — to re-record his song Unbroken with the Invictus Games Choir.
HARRY REDKNAPP, 73. The former manager of West Ham, Tottenham and QPR is the father of Jamie Redknapp. He won ITv’s I’m A Celebrity in 2018 and has been married to wife Sandra for 52 years. They met when, aged 17, he plucked up courage to ask her to dance at a disco at the Two Puddings pub in Stratford, East london.
BORN ON THIS DAY
KAREN CARPENTER (1950-1983). The American singer and drummer founded The Carpenters with her older brother, Richard. They notched up hits with Close to You and We’ve only Just Begun and sold 100 million records. She died of heart failure aged 32. Sir Paul McCartney said she had ‘the best female voice in the world’. loU REED (1942-2013). The New York-born musician was the frontman of The velvet Underground, and had solo hits with Walk on The Wild Side and Perfect Day. He insisted he brought a literary sensibility to the music industry, saying his approach was: ‘let’s take crime and punishment and turn it into a rock ‘n’ roll song.’ Reed, who spent many years abusing alcohol and drugs, died five months after a liver transplant.
ON MARCH 2...
IN 1967, Engelbert Humperdinck secured his first No.1 with Release Me. IN 1983, compact discs, or CDs, went on sale in the UK for the first time.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Banting (c1860)
A) Teasing. B) Slimming by avoiding sugar and starch. C) Singing in the streets. (Answer below)
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Pig-headed: Meaning stubborn or obstinate; coined in the 1600s, one theory for pigs is that the more intelligent an animal, the more likely it is to be called stubborn.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
All my reporting life, I have thrown small pebbles into a very large pond, and have no way of knowing whether any pebble caused the slightest ripple. My responsibility was the effort.
Martha Gellhorn, U.S. war reporter (1908-1998)
JOKE OF THE DAY
HoW do you make an apple puff? Chase it around the house.
Guess The Definition answer: B