March 1, 2019 ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE MARCH 1, 1952
CAERNARfON Town Council is to petition the Queen to proclaim three-year- old Prince Charles the Prince of Wales. The council meets on Tuesday night to hear the mayor move an address of loyalty to the Queen. The title of Prince of Wales must be conferred, as it is not inherited at birth.
MARCH 1, 1954
SIR JOHN GIELGUd and Miss Audrey Hepburn have been granted the 1953 British film Academy awards for the best British actor and actress of the year — for their work in Hollywood films. Norman Wisdom, the stage and TV comedian, is voted the most promising newcomer for his work on the film Trouble In Store.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
CATHERINE BACH, 65. The U.S. actress played daisy duke in Eighties TV series The dukes Of Hazzard. Her legs were insured for $1million and her character was most famous for wearing teeny- weeny cut- off denim shorts (right). Tragically, her husband, lawyer Peter Lopez, shot himself in 2010. His clients included The Eagles and Michael Jackson. MIKE REAd, 72. The Lancashire-born former Radio 1 dJ and host of Saturday Superstore and Top Of The Pops apologised in 2014 after recording the song UKIP Calypso, in a faux Caribbean accent, that included lyrics about ‘illegal immigrants in every town’. Read was offered his first job in radio because he was ‘very English’ and ‘mildly eccentric’.
BORN ON THIS DAY
fREdERIC CHOPIN (1810-1849). The Polish-born french composer gave his first public concerto performance aged just eight. His ‘Minute Waltz’ actually takes about a minute and a half to play, and his Étude No.12 in C minor was the very first piece of music played on the BBC’s desert Island discs in 1942 (chosen by comedian, actor and musician Vic Oliver). dAVId NIVEN (1910-1983), right. The British actor, star of Around The World In 80 days and The Pink Panther, was known for his numerous affairs, including with film stars Rita Hayworth and Grace Kelly. On his deathbed, he apparently revealed his second wife had contracted a sexually transmitted disease after a liaison with U.S. President John f. Kennedy.
ON MARCH 1…
IN 1780, Pennsylvania became the first U.S. state to abolish slavery (but only for newborn babies).
IN 1973, Pink floyd’s album The dark Side Of The Moon was released. It would spend 736 successive weeks — more than 14 years — in the U.S. charts.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Tufthunter (1854) A) A toady or sycophant. B) A youth close to adulthood. C) A scarecrow made of old garments. (Answer below)
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Spin a yarn — meaning to tell a long, farfetched story; first used by sailors in the 19th century. ‘Spin’ meant bind, and ‘yarns’ were individual, often long, strands of rope.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
THE chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. Cyril Northcote Parkinson, English historian (1909-1993)
JOKE OF THE DAY
HOW do dogs train their fleas? From scratch. Guess The Definition answer: A.