ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE OCTOBER 18, 1943
A NEW and even more-than- ordinary detestable type of German soldier is appearing with increasing frequency, chiefly in the so- called ‘Hermann Goring regiments’. These are boys of 16 or 17, some of whom have been captured carrying Hitler Youth membership cards. Allied interrogating officers agree these devotees of Hitler’s hate cult are the most poisonous type of German that they have encountered.
OCTOBER 18, 1956
PRINCESS Margaret (pictured) went to an animal farm today in Tanganyika to collect two baby zebra presented to her. Governor Sir Edward Twining asked: ‘Where would you like the zebras sent, Ma’am?’ The Princess replied: ‘Oh, just send them to my London home.’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA, 62. The Czechborn star won the Wimbledon singles title a record nine times, was world No 1 for seven years and won her last Grand Slam just a month short of her 50th birthday. She was named by Sports Illustrated magazine as one of the ‘Top 40 athletes of all time’. Mike TINDALL, 40 (pictured). The Yorkshire-born retired England rugby union captain is married to Zara Phillips, the Queen’s eldest granddaughter. His motherin-law, Princess Anne, tried unsuccessfully to get him to have his eight-times broken nose (once described as ‘a relief map of the Pennines) straightened before his 2011 wedding. The first fracture occurred aged five, when he head-butted the steering wheel of a dodgem car.
BORN ON THIS DAY
OM PURI (1950-2017). The Indian actor starred in East Is East, Gandhi and Charlie Wilson’s War as well as a string of Bollywood hits and on TV in The Jewel In The Crown. He said offers of roles in Uk films petered out after he was awarded an honorary OBE for services to British cinema in 2005: ‘I thought that was a golden handshake — “We [have] had enough of you, here is your prize, now get lost!” ’ PETER BOYLE (1935-2006). The star of U.S. sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond was most famous for playing the monster in Mel Brooks’s film Young Frankenstein. He met wife-to-be Loraine, a journalist, while on set in the monster’s full make-up. John Lennon was best man at their wedding.
ON OCTOBER 18...
IN 1954, the first transistor radio went on the market. IN 2000, U.S. actors Demi Moore and Bruce Willis filed for divorce after 13 years of marriage.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION: Deleb (2008) A) Nonsense, rubbish. B) Delicious. C) A dead celebrity. Answer below PHRASE EXPLAINED
Honeymoon — meaning the traditional holiday taken by newlyweds. It referred to the special period when married love was at first as sweet as honey, but which waned like the moon.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics Emmeline Pankhurst, women’s suffrage leader (1858-1928)
JOKE OF THE DAY
HOW do you organise a space party? Planet early. Guess The Definition answer: C