ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE JUNE 6, 1941
THE King has given instructions that all members of the Royal Family are to comply strictly with the clothes rationing order. The Queen has already cancelled her orders for summer and autumn dresses, and the clothing of the two Princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret, is also to be cut down.
JUNE 6, 1964
TWo of pop star Adam Faith’s group, The Roulettes, were beaten up by Mods early today. It happened as they left the Chez Don teenage club in Kingsland Road, Dalston, London. Faith said: ‘They are a quiet couple of guys. Thank God they weren’t hurt badly.’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
LoRD (PETER) CARRInGTon, 98. The oldest member of the House of Lords. In 1951, he was out shooting on his estate when he got a message to call no 10. He spoke to Winston Churchill, the PM, who said: ‘Been out shooting I hear. Good game? now, would you like to join my shoot?’ He appointed Carrington undersecretary for Agriculture — the first step in a long career in which he rose to Foreign Secretary (under Mrs Thatcher). JoSIE LAWREnCE, 58. The comedian and actress ( right) from the West Midlands has appeared on stage with the RSC, on film in Enchanted April and in EastEnders. She says that, after her parents won the pools, ‘I arrived less than ten months later’. She named her house Yoghurt Mansion ‘because a yoghurt advert helped pay for it’.
BORN ON THIS DAY
HEnRY ALLInGHAM (1896-2009). The last surviving founder member of the RAF, he died a month after officially becoming the world’s oldest man, at 113. He joked that his longevity was down to ‘cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women’. He also said: ‘War’s stupid. no one wins. You might as well talk first; you have to talk last anyway.’ DIEGo VELAzQUEz (1599-1660). The Spanish 17th century artist (selfportrait, right) became court painter to King Philip IV at the age of 23. His portraits were said to be so realistic that the king once spoke to one of them, confusing it with a courtier. only one of Velazquez’s female nudes survives, the famous Rokeby Venus.
ON JUNE 6 ...
IN 1683, the world’s first university museum opened — the Ashmolean in oxford. IN 1944, D-Day began, with Allied troops landing in normandy, northern France. IN 1949, nineteen Eighty-Four, by George orwell, was published.
WORD WIZARDRY
NEW WORD OF THE DAY Doga: Yoga for dogs. GUESS THE DEFINITION Snoach (coined 1387) A) To speak through the nose. B) To live upon the industry of others. C) An amateur actor playing minor parts for experience. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Basin of gravy: Cockney rhyming slang for baby; suggestive of the softness of the foods on which babies are fed.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
ONly those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go T.S. Eliot, British poet (1888-1965)
JOKE OF THE DAY
HoW does a train eat? It goes chew chew. Guess The Definition answer: A)