ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
MARCH 18, 1921 Blonde women are ineligible to serve on juries is the dictum of Judge William Court of the Bronx district in new York City. While court officials were gathering the necessary number of jurywomen, the judge said: ‘There will be no blondes on this jury. Blondes are too fickle.’ MARCH 18, 1968 london is still recovering after thousands of anti-Vietnam war demonstrators and police clashed yesterday in one of the city’s worst-ever riots. Between 200 and 300 people were arrested in the 80-minute battle outside the American embassy. Actress Vanessa Redgrave flew from Milan to address the rally and lead a march to the embassy to hand in letters of protest.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
IRene CARA, 60. The American actress starred in the 1980 movie Fame and sang its title song. As a singer-songwriter she won an Academy Award, with Giorgio Moroder, for What A Feeling from the movie Flashdance, becoming the first black woman to receive an oscar in a non-acting category. lIlY CollIns, 30. The actress daughter of musician Phil Collins was born in surrey but moved to the U.s. aged five with her mother. she played Fantine in the BBC’s recent adaptation of les Miserables. lily has spoken openly about suffering from an eating disorder in her teens and appeared in the netflix film To The Bone, as a young woman struggling with anorexia.
BORN ON THIS DAY
neVIlle ChAMBeRlAIn (1869-1940). The Birmingham-born prime minister is best remembered for announcing ‘peace for our time’ after a summit with Adolf hitler in Munich in 1938, and declaring war with Germany the following year. he resigned in May 1940, after Britain’s failure to liberate norway. WIlFRed oWen (18931918). The Great War poet from shropshire wrote dulce et decorum est and Anthem For doomed Youth, in which he railed against the destruction of combat. After being evacuated from the Western Front with shellshock, he returned to the trenches and was killed on november 4, 1918. owen had written almost all his poems within the space of just over a year.
ON MARCH 18…
IN 1965, the Rolling stones were each fined £5 for urinating outside an essex petrol station.
IN 2009, actress natasha Richardson (daughter of Vanessa Redgrave and Tony Richardson and wife of liam neeson) died, aged 45, after hitting her head in a skiing accident.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: alexipharmic (early 17th century) A) a hypochondriac B) having the quality or nature of an antidote to poison
C) incurable ( Answer below) Rub of the green — can mean either good or bad fortune in some sporting event; similar to ‘that’s the way the cookie crumbles’; it dates from 1681 and comes from ‘rub’ being an obstacle in bowls.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
THeRe never was a good war, or a bad peace Benjamin Franklin, American statesman (1706-1790)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WhY did the egg hide? Because it was a little chicken. Guess the Definition answer: B