ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE SEPTEMBER 14, 1945
HImmLER’S plan for ‘liquidating’ leaders in every field of British activity — a plan that was to be put in place if the German invasion in 1940 had succeeded — is contained in Gestapo dossiers. The list includes the present Prime minister, Clement Attlee, and Winston Churchill.
SEPTEMBER 14, 1965
BEATLES drummer Ringo Starr became a father yesterday. His wife, 19-year- old former Liverpool hairdresser maureen, gave birth to a son in Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, London. He promised that if his son was not a good musician he would not encourage him. ‘There are too many out-ofwork musicians,’ he said.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
RENzO PIANO, 80. The Italian architect designed the Shard in London — the tallest building in western Europe — and the Pompidou Centre in Paris. He shunned high-tech presentations in favour of paper and a felt-tip pen. His first sketch for the 1,004ft-tall Shard was on the back of a restaurant menu. SAm NEILL, 70. The Northern Irish-born actor is best known for appearing in two Jurassic Park films (right), as well as The Piano and my Brilliant Career. He runs a vineyard in New zealand (where his family moved when he was seven). He says his guiltiest pleasure is Channel 4’s Come Dine With me, which is ‘everything you need to know about the British in one tidy hour’.
BORN ON THIS DAY
NICOL WILLIAmSON (1938-2011). The actor, who played Sherlock Holmes in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, also appeared in Excalibur, Inadmissible Evidence and The Exorcist III. Williamson, whose former lovers included Dame Helen mirren and marianne Faithfull, was invited to the White House by Richard Nixon. He died in poverty with just six mourners at his funeral. Amy WINEHOUSE (19832011). The London- born singer- songwriter (right), who died aged 27, had many tattoos, including a lightning bolt — she joked: ‘Like me, lightning’s a natural disaster!’ According to her brother Alex, she liked Sudoku puzzles and was a fan of literature including Dostoevsky, but hid the books to play down her intellect.
ON SEPTEMBER 14...
IN 1954, New york was battered by Hurricane Edna, causing $50 million of damage.
IN 1981, 17-year-old marcus Sarjeant was jailed for five years for treason after firing blank shots at the Queen during a Trooping of the Colour ceremony.
IN 2007, Northern Rock customers flocked to withdraw their savings in the first run on a British bank in 150 years.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION Turdoid (coined 1823) A) Akin to a thrush B) The strong tendon in an animal’s neck C) A stomach ache Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
To add insult to injury — To harm someone who has already suffered. From Phaedrus’s Roman fable of the fly who said to a bald man: ‘you who have wished to revenge the prick of a tiny insect, see what you have done to yourself to add insult to injury?’
QUOTE FOR TODAY
ThE four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence. Art Linkletter, U.S. broadcaster (1912-2010)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT did the tooth say to the dentist as he was leaving? Fill me in when you get back. Guess the Definition answer: A.