November 5, 2021 ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE NOVEMBER 5, 1979
A student mob stormed the u.s.
embassy in tehran yesterday, seized up to 100 hostages and demanded that the deposed shah of Iran be extradited to stand trial. A later report said there were just 30 Americans and 19 Iranians, who were blindfolded, handcuffed and held in one room.
NOVEMBER 5, 2001
WIth youngsters in capes and wizard hats, London’s Leicester square went completely hogwarts yesterday. Five thousand turned up to see guests at the harry Potter And the Philosopher’s stone film premiere. Its
12-year-old star, daniel Radcliffe, was hailed with the kind of screams usually reserved for more mature leading men.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Jo MALone, 58. the english perfumer (right) mixed sandalwood and juniper at the kitchen table aged nine. she said: ‘Because I am dyslexic I have always used [my sense of smell] to remember things by. It’s like having a paintbrush for a nose.’ her sense of smell is so acute that when her husband Gary tried to surprise her at a hotel, she rumbled him by detecting his scent in reception before reaching her room. Kate Middleton’s favourite fragrance is said to be orange Blossom by Jo Malone.
BRyAn AdAMs, 62. the Canadian singer wrote (everything I do) I do It For you in 45 minutes for the film Robin hood: Prince
of thieves. It was uK no 1 for a record 16 consecutive weeks in 1991. Adams has long denied he was a lover of the Princess of Wales, once saying: ‘We were good friends.’ he is now an acclaimed photographer, of subjects from the Queen to Mick Jagger.
BORN ON THIS DAY
sAM shePARd (1943-2017). the u.s. star of the Right stuff and Black hawk down was also a Pulitzer prize-winning writer dubbed the ‘cowboy laureate’ and ‘the greatest playwright of his generation’. shepard had two children with co-star Jessica Lange, who said: ‘I’ve had romances with what you’d call famous men and none compares to sam in terms of maleness.’
JeB MAGRudeR (1934-2014). the Watergate conspirator was the first of Richard nixon’s aides to do a deal with prosecutors. he even claimed to have heard the president order the break-in at democratic Party hQ that led to his jailing for seven months. Magruder, later a church minister, said: ‘somewhere between my ambition and my ideals I lost my ethical compass.’
ON NOVEMBER 5…
IN 1935, the board game Monopoly (pictured) first went on sale. IN 1982, Channel 4 first aired the tube, starring Jools holland and Paula yates.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION: Noddy (c 1520s)
A) A beard. B) A bald man. C) A fool. Answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED Booby trap:
A device intended to surprise, maim or kill. the word ‘boob’ comes from the spanish bobo for silly and, by 1599, ‘booby’ meant ‘dunce’; first applied to childish pranks, then to landmines.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook. Julia Child, American cook (1912-2004)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WhAt did Cinderella wear on her feet when she went for a swim? Glass flippers.
Guess The Definition answer: C.