ON THIS DAY
April 22, 2017
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
APRIL 22, 1952 MrS CLArK GABLe, formerly Lady Stanley of Alderley, today won a divorce at Santa Monica, California, from her husband (pictured with her). Mrs Gable said that she was a ‘television widow’. She told the court that Hollywood’s ‘king’ would go upstairs after dinner and leave her to watch the television set. APRIL 22, 1968 eDwArD HeATH last night sacked enoch Powell from the Tory shadow cabinet for making his fiery speech on race relations. Mr Heath said: ‘I have told Mr Powell that I consider the speech he made in Birmingham yesterday racialist in tone and liable to exacerbate racial tensions.’ This verdict will probably stun Mr Powell, who contends that he was only expanding on official Conservative policy.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
GArY rHODeS, 57. The celebrity chef was known for his spiky hair, which originated in the eighties, but changed his look more than a decade ago after declaring he didn’t want to ‘end up looking like rod Stewart’. AMBer HeArD, 31, the American film star (right), whose bitter divorce from Johnny Depp was finalised this year. She is suing the producers of the film of Martin Amis’s London Fields for breaching a nudity clause in her contract by recording an ‘explicit pornographic sex scene’ using Heard’s body double, without her knowledge. GLeN CAMPBeLL, 81. The country music star, best known for hits rhinestone Cowboy and wichita Lineman. Sadly, he is in the final stages of Alzheimer’s disease.
BORN ON THIS DAY
VLADIMIr LeNIN (1870-1924), leader of the russian revolution. His brain is stored at the Moscow Brain Institute, and the rest of his embalmed corpse is still on display in a mausoleum on Moscow’s red Square. YeHUDI MeNUHIN (1916-1999). The brilliant American-born violinist, who adopted British nationality, made his concerto debut in Berlin aged 13. Albert einstein, who was in the audience, said with tears in his eyes: ‘The day of miracles is not over.’
ON APRIL 22 . . .
IN 1969, robin Knox- Johnston sailed into Falmouth harbour, becoming the first person to sail single-handed and non-stop around the world.
IN 1983, a German magazine announced the discovery of Hitler’s personal diaries. It turned out to be a hoax.
WORD WIZARDRY
NEW WORD OF THE DAY
Flipped learning: An education where students learn at home, with the class being for practice and discussion. GUESS THE DEFINITION Scaldabanco (coined from Italian 1670) A) A preacher who delivers a fiery sermon. B) A critic who takes joy in finding fault. C) A person who enjoys eating fine food. PHRASE EXPLAINED Not fit to hold the candle to him:
To be very inferior. It alludes to the lowly ‘link-boys’ who held candles at theatres.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
HAPPINESS is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. Aristotle, Greek philosopher (384-322 BC) I’Ve written a book on reverse psychology. Don’t read it! Guess The Definition answer: A.