ON THIS DAY
September 13, 2021
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE SEPTEMBER 13, 1977
TODAY, Margaret Thatcher meets U.S. President Jimmy Carter. The meeting shows what Washington thinks of the Tory leader’s future, for many other opposition chiefs have vied for such approval and been left kicking their heels.
SEPTEMBER 13, 1980
NICOLA GRAY will make history when she takes her dog out next week. She is to be the Metropolitan Police’s first woman dog-handler to go on street patrols. WPC Gray and her German Shepherd dog, Paddy, qualified yesterday after 14 weeks of tough training. She said yesterday: ‘Being a girl, I also welcome the security of having a dog with me.’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
JACQUELINE BISSET, 77. The actress from Surrey starred opposite Frank Sinatra in The Detective and ‘King of Cool’ Steve Mcqueen in 1968 film Bullitt (right). When she won a Golden Globe in 2014 for Dancing On The edge — 45 years after her first nomination — she said in her acceptance speech: ‘I believe if you want to look good, you’ve got to forgive everybody. It’s the best beauty treatment.’
SHANE WARNE, 52. The Australian was named one of Wisden’s five Cricketers Of The 20th Century. When he retired at 43, he was the second-highest Test wicket-taker of all time with 708 in 145 Tests, as well as 293 more in 194 one-day internationals. Warne was once engaged to elizabeth Hurley.
BORN ON THIS DAY
CAROL BARNES (19442008). The Norwich-born teacher (right) became an ITN newsreader and News At Ten anchor despite her radio boss’s concerns her accent was too posh. She was heavily pregnant when she covered the Brixton riots in 1981 and also when she tracked down Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini in exile in France. JOHN SMITH (1938-1994). The Labour leader was expected to become prime minister, but was succeeded by Tony Blair after Smith’s sudden death from a heart attack. According to one obituary, ‘he had achieved a personal ascendancy unmatched by any Labour leader since Clement Attlee’. His daughter Sarah Smith is the BBC’s Scotland editor.
ON SEPTEMBER 13 …
IN 1902, english burglar Harry Jackson became the first person in the UK to be convicted of a crime on the basis of fingerprint evidence. IN 1922, the world’s highest temperature in the shade, 58c, was recorded at el Aziziyah, Libya. In 2012, the World Meteorological Organisation disqualified the record, saying it could have been inaccurate by as much as 7c.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Agraffe (c1660s) A) A small cramp iron. B) In the opposite direction. C) Judging via eye measurements. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED Black book:
refers to a book containing a blacklist; the phrase came from the mid1400s; King Henry VIII had a literal black book in which he listed the names of sinful people warranting punishment.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
The road of knowledge leads to the palace of wisdom. Tom Wolfe, American author (1930-2018)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT do you call an ass with three legs? A wonky donkey. Guess The Definition answer: A.