ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE SEPTEMBER 28, 1964
THE pop pirates of Radio Caroline today claim they have a bigger afternoon audience than all the BBC sound services combined. Caroline, which went on the air in March, now reaches 39 million people.
SEPTEMBER 28, 1996
PRINCE WILLIAM is telling his friends at Eton all about how he had entertained three of the world’s top models. Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer and Christy
Turlington were invited to tea at Kensington Palace by Princess Diana as a treat for him — and in response to a dare.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
BRIGITTE BARDOT, 87. The French actress and sex symbol was convinced as a child that she was ugly. She said her crippling shyness ‘made me suffer atrociously during my life as an actress’, and she is still too scared to visit a restaurant: ‘They’ll be watching what Brigitte Bardot is eating, how she holds her fork.’ John Lennon had a huge poster of her on his bedroom ceiling. When they eventually met, Lennon was so nervous he was speechless. PETER EGAN, 75. The actor, who grew up in a council flat, played the Marquess of Flintshire — ‘Shrimpy’ — in Downton Abbey. Egan has said: ‘Most people think I’m a public schoolboy because I learnt to speak “proper” at Rada,’ but added, ‘My parents were as poor as the proverbial church mice.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
CONFUCIUS (551-479BC). The Chinese philosopher has shaped the thinking of his country for about 2,500 years. Thanks to his long line of descendants, the guinness World Records certified his as the world’s longest family tree. In 2009, the Confucius genealogy Compilation Committee released the fifth edition of the tree in book form, which weighed more than half a ton and covered 83 generations.
SYLVIA KRISTEL (19522012). The Dutch actress made her name as Emmanuelle in the 1974 film and four sequels. one critic called the movie ‘clumsily directed, badly acted and with risible, badly dubbed dialogue’, but it attracted worldwide audiences of 650million. Kristel had affairs with Warren Beatty, gérard Depardieu and Lovejoy star Ian McShane, who once said she was unable to walk and talk at the same time. She hit back that he was too short to be a major star.
ON SEPTEMBER 28…
IN 1990, Have I got News For you began on BBC2, chaired by Angus Deayton. IN 1996, Frankie Dettori rode all seven winners on the card at Ascot.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Chyle (coined 1535-45) A) The windward side of a hedge. B) A blockhead. C) A milky fluid containing emulsified fat and other products of digestion.
Answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Kick-start: to begin something effectively; it comes from starting a motorbike when you push down a lever forcefully with your foot.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
All that we see or seem. Is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (1809-1849)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHICH Continental cheese is made backwards? edam. Guess the definition answer: C. Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD