ON THIS DAY
October 8, 2021
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE OCTOBER 8, 1991
AS WEDDINGS go, it was more like a flying circus. Elizabeth Taylor married for the eighth time amid a bedlam of noise caused by 15 or so helicopters flying overhead. Few of the 160 guests could hear a word the bride said as she made her vows to ex-building site worker Larry Fortensky. The couple wed at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch in California.
OCTOBER 8, 2011
PRINCE HARRY arrived in the U.S. on a two-month elite helicopter training programme, paving the way for a second tour of duty in Afghanistan. He will fly with America’s Top Guns to learn advanced techniques in the Apache attack helicopter.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
PAUL HOGAN, 82. The Australian star won a Golden Globe for his lead role in 1986’s Crocodile dundee. Hogan, who got his first break on TV while working as a labourer on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, went on to marry his co-star Linda Kozlowski (right), but they divorced in 2014. The father of six was surprised to receive an award for outstanding contribution to Australian film in 2016, insisting: ‘I only play one character.’
MARTHA KEARNEY, 64. The dublin-born presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme has interviewed every British PM since 1987 — former Labour leader Ed Miliband told her she was the interviewer he feared the most. A keen apiarist, her husband bought her the bee tattoo she has on her wrist. However, she had to give up her hives because she developed a severe allergic reaction to bee stings.
BORN ON THIS DAY
ALBERT ROUX (1935-2021). The Frenchborn chef, with younger brother Michel, established Le Gavroche in Mayfair, which became the first restaurant in the UK to receive three Michelin stars. Roux started out as a scullery boy for Nancy Astor at Cliveden in Buckinghamshire. Having trained the likes of Gordon Ramsay and
Marco Pierre white, in 2013 it was estimated that more than half of Britain’s Michelin-starred restaurants were run by former Roux proteges. BILL MAYNARD (1928-2018). The Surreyborn comedian and actor, a former professional footballer with Kettering Town, starred in BBC series Great Scott — It’s Maynard! and played Claude Jeremiah Greengrass in ITV’s Heartbeat. He was born walter williams, but took his stage name from Maynard’s wine gums.
ON OCTOBER 8 . . .
IN 1980, the Austin Mini Metro was launched by British Leyland (right). IN 1992, Later ...with Jools Holland first aired on BBC2.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Fideism (c 1880s) A) A rhetorical device of damning by faint praise. B) An indistinct pronunciation.
C) A reliance on faith. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED Slip through the net: Meaning to avoid detection; it comes from the fishing reference of fish escaping after being trapped in the fisherman’s net.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
It is ill-manners to silence a fool, and cruelty to let him go on. Benjamin Franklin, U.S. statesman (1706-1790)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT is red and bad for your teeth? A brick. Guess The Definition answer: C