ON THIS DAY

FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

April 29, 1952

BUCKINGHAM Palace announced last night that the Queen has appointed Tuesday, June 2, 1953, to be the day of Her Majesty’s Coronation. It will be Derby week when London is full, therefore there will be no chance of making a ‘double season’ of it.

April 29, 1969

SOME men now go to women’s hairdressers rather than a barber’s shop. They are ready to overcome the embarrassment of the ‘harem-like atmosphere of chatter, hairnets, banks of driers and gay gowns,’ said John Mortimer, master of the Guild of Hairdressers, Wigmakers and Perfumers. He asked: ‘Will the cult of unisex develop?’