ON THIS DAY

June 26, 2018

FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

JUNE 26, 1945 FRAU Emmy Goering has asked for a divorce from her captive husband. She says there was never any real marriage between her and the Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering. The wedding took place on Hitler’s express order, she adds, but says she never liked him.

JUNE 26, 1946

INSTANCES of ‘mutiny’ by PoWs employed on farms were disclosed yesterday at a meeting of the Suffolk branch of the National Farmers’ Union. A farmer said that at one camp German prisoners had formed their own ‘union’ and had fixed the maximum amount of work they would do each day.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

ARIANA GRANDE, 25. The American pop star’s Manchester concert was targeted by a suicide bomber last year, with 22 people killed. To mark the anniversary last month, Grande (right) got a tattoo of a bee — the symbol of the city — and was made Manchester’s first honorary citizen as a thank you for the money she raised for victims with the One Love concert a fortnight after the attack. MILTON GLASER, 89. The American graphic designer is most famous for his ‘I [ heart] NY’ symbol, which has been described as possibly ‘the most frequently imitated logo ever conceived’. It was an idea he scribbled with a red crayon in the back of a Manhattan taxi in 1977. The torn envelope on which he sketched it is in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

BORN ON THIS DAY

ELEANOR PARkER (1922-2013). The four-times married American actress (right) is best remembered for playing the baroness in The Sound Of Music and was described by Charmian Carr, who played the eldest Von Trapp daughter, as ‘the bona fide movie star in the cast’. She also starred in Caged, Scaramouche and Detective Story and was nominated for three Oscars. WILLY MESSERSCHMITT (1898-1978). The German engineer had built and flown his own glider by 15 and owned his own aircraft company at 25. He designed the Messerschmitt Bf 109, which set the world speed record in 1939 ( 481mph) and became Germany’s key fighter plane in World War II. In 1948, he was convicted of collaborating with the Nazi regime. After two years in prison, he resumed his position as head of his company.

ON JUNE 26…

IN 1909, London’s Science Museum was established. IN 1974, the Universal Product Code, or barcode, was scanned for the first time, on a packet of chewing gum.

WORD WIZARDRY

GUESS THE DEFINITION: lemniscate (coined 1781)

A) To blur, to obscure B) A closed, figure eight-shaped curve C) Wool taken from a dead sheep (Answer below) PHRASE EXPLAINED: to get down to

brass tacks — meaning to get down to the real business in hand; it originated from old-fashioned drapers’ shops where the assistant measured the amount of cloth required against brass-headed nails