ON THIS DAY
July 22, 2021
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
JULY 22, 1946
Expectations in Berlin today are that very shortly Germany will be cut cleanly into economic halves. This means that the iron curtain will be rung down from the Baltic to Bavaria indefinitely.
JULY 22, 1969
Next stop Earth. The Moon walkers linked up tonight with the mother ship. After a perfect take-off from the Moon, neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin in Eagle and the command ship Columbia, piloted by Michael Collins, nosed slowly together. Then Armstrong and Aldrin transferred two hours ahead of schedule to the command ship.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Bonnie Langford, 57. The former child star found fame on Junior Showtime and played Violet Elizabeth Bott in the 1970s adaptation of Just William — later starring in doctor Who and EastEnders. Last month she appeared on iTV’s The Masked dancer, wowing the audience by doing the splits in her squirrel costume. The judges thought she was a woman in her 20s. Selena Gomez, 29. The American singer, actress and on/off belle of Justin Bieber, appeared in Woody Allen’s A rainy day in new York in 2019. A former disney child star, she has 245 million followers on instagram. in 2017, Gomez, who has the autoimmune disease lupus, received a kidney from her best friend, actress francia raisa. Last year she was praised by Princess Eugenie for displaying her scar (Eugenie showed off her childhood scoliosis surgery scar on her wedding day).
BORN ON THIS DAY
Jimmy Hill (1928-2015). The footballer from London became chairman of the Professional footballers Association and the face of the BBC’s Match of The day. in 1961, he won the campaign to abolish the maximum wage for players, capped at £20 a week. upon
his death, des Lynam said: ‘i shall continue to impersonate him when in his prime. You just have to stick the old chin out, something he was always prepared to do.’ Michael Abney-hastings (19422012). The 14th Earl of Loudoun was told by TV presenter Tony robinson in 2003 that he was the rightful King of England after a historian’s discovery that Edward iV was illegitimate. The Sussex-born aristocrat moved to Australia at 17 and found work as an orange picker.
ON JULY 22…
IN 2005, Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes was shot and killed at London’s Stockwell Tube station by police who mistook him for a terror suspect. IN 2012, Bradley Wiggins became the first British rider to win the Tour de france.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Oracy (c1960s) A) A prediction B) Greed C) The ability to articulate ideas. Answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED As high as a kite:
to be blissfully happy, drunk or stoned; in a literal sense it means to be ‘high off the ground’ but the idea of intoxication came as early as 1627 while in the 1930s in the u.S. ‘high’ began to imply being ‘under the influence of drugs’.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
‘Life is an incurable disease.’ Abraham Cowley, English poet (1618-1667)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT do cows read in the morning? The moospapers. Guess The Definition answer: C