ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE OCTOBER 5, 1957
RUSSIA last night claimed to have launched the world’s first space satellite. It is now circling the Earth at five miles a second. A Moscow communique said the satellite, a 23in sphere packed with recording and radio instruments, is describing an elliptical course about 560 miles up.
OCTOBER 5, 1973
COMEDIAN Bob Monkhouse hugs his bride Jacqueline Harding, his secretary for 18 years before she became his wife at Marylebone register office in London yesterday. Jacqueline had decided to emigrate to Canada, but the night before she was due to go, he took her out. ‘We fell in love over supper,’ said Monkhouse.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
NICOLA ROBERTS, 35. The singer, who grew up in Cheshire, was one fifth of Girls Aloud. In February, she won ITV’s The Masked Singer disguised in a queen bee costume. A decade ago, she backed a campaign to stop under-18s using tanning beds that led to a change in the laws, saying as a teenager she used to go to a tanning salon after school: ‘I’d go in wearing my school uniform and no one ever stopped me.’ NICK ROBINSON, 57. The Today programme presenter, from Cheshire, is the only person to have served as political editor at both ITV and the BBC. He feared he might never speak again after a vocal cord was damaged in a 2015 operation. He says the most embarrassing moment in his life was singing Bohemian Rhapsody on Children In Need.
BORN ON THIS DAY
DONALD PLEASENCE (1919-1995). The Nottinghamshire-born star of The Great Escape most famously played villain Blofeld in 007 movie You Only Live Twice. Pleasence, who notched up more than 200 film and TV credits, gained a reputation for almost never turning down a role, and the former railway worker said: ‘I make films for money. I never, ever watch them.’ RAY KROC (1902-1984). The U.S. businessman turned McDonald’s into one of the biggest companies in the world and Time magazine named the ‘hamburger meister’ among its 100 Persons Of The 20th Century. He had a policy banning the hiring of women until the mid-1960s because he thought they would attract rowdy male customers.
ON OCTOBER 5…
IN 1962, The Beatles released their debut record, Love Me Do. IN 1981, American actress Gloria Grahame, who inspired the 2017 movie Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool, died in New York.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: chasuble (13th cent) A) The socket of a precious stone B) Incense vessel for religious ceremonies C) A sleeveless outer vestment worn by the celebrant at Mass ( Answer below) PHRASE EXPLAINED Under the counter: Meaning bought or sold secretly and illegally; from World War II to describe a practice among dishonest tradesmen who would keep articles and rationed food in short supply out of sight for sale to favoured customers.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
NO iRON can stab the heart with such force as a full stop put just at the right place. Isaac Babel, Russian writer (1894-1940)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT did the hamburger name his daughter? Patty. Guess The Definition answer C