ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
JANUARY 12, 1937 We gIVe to-day an analysis of the proposals by Daily Mail readers to further our great campaign for ‘Fair Play for Motorists’. A great volume of opinion holds that many roads are unnecessarily restricted to 30mph. Higher speeds are safe but because roads are restricted they form a happy hunting ground for police seeking convictions. JANUARY 12, 1967 WHen Vicki the stripper steps on stage she will be doing her act for the sake of the party — the Tory Party. Barnoldswick Conservative Club officials are determined the show will go on, despite disapproval from Tory Central Office. Central Office does not think it is, well, the done thing for a Conservative club. Horace Pickles, club concert secretary, said: ‘There’s nothing wrong or vulgar in this.’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
PIxIe LOTT, 26. The pop star’s real name is Victoria and she got her stage name after her mother said she was ‘such a tiny, cute baby who looked like a fairy’. Last year she played Holly golightly (right) in Breakfast At Tiffany’s in the West end. She said she didn’t watch the classic film version starring Audrey Hepburn in case it was too intimidating. LADy (MARy) WILSOn, 101. The widow of former Labour prime minister Harold Wilson is the only PM’s spouse to reach 100. She was a shorthand typist when she met her husband, and laterbecame a published poetWhen Wilson died in 1995, she wrote a poem which included the lines: ‘My love you have stumbled slowly/ On the quiet way to death/ And you lie where the wind blows strongly/ With a salty spray on its breath.’ MICHAeL ASPeL, 84. The presenter and newsreader hosted This Is your Life and Antiques Roadshow among many others. He joined the BBC in 1957 and was told his divorce would end his career. ‘There wouldn’t be anyone left if that applied now,’ he said recently.
BORN ON THIS DAY
JOHn SIngeR SARgenT (1856-1925). The American portrait painter’s works were often far from flattering and it was said sitting for him was ‘like taking your face in your hands’. HeRMAnn gOeRIng (18931946). Hitler’s second- incommand was wounded during the Fuhrer’s failed putsch in 1923 and became addicted to morphine. He liked flamboyant costumes (right) and wore a medieval outfit when he went hunting. goering was sentenced to hang at nuremberg after the war but killed himself with cyanide the night before.
ON JANUARY 12
IN 2001, Sven goran eriksson flew here to start as england football team manager.
IN 2005, Prince Harry was pictured wearing a nazi uniform at a fancy dress party.
IN 2010, an earthquake struck Haiti and killed more than 200,000 people.
WORD WIZARDRY
NEW WORD OF THE DAY Flairing: Catching, flipping, spinning or throwing with finesse and style by bar staff. GUESS THE DEFINITION Psychopannychy (coined 1545) A) The love of children for their parents. B) The sleep of the soul between death and the day of judgment. C) Forgetfulness, oblivion. PHRASE EXPLAINED Run the gauntlet: Military punishment where a sailor or soldier ran between two rows of men armed with rope ends or sticks with which to beat him.