ON THIS DAY
October 13, 2021
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE OCTOBER 13, 1977
Blackpool belonged to William Hague yesterday. He’s 16. His speech to the Tory party conference — and to the nation on TV — brought Mrs Thatcher, Jim prior and Sir keith Joseph to their feet. all Governments, including Mrs Thatcher’s, he said, ‘must get out of the people’s way’. He hopes to go to oxford and become an Mp, even prime Minister.
OCTOBER 13, 1993
THE tennis fan who stabbed Monica Seles told a court yesterday of his obsession with Steffi Graf. The Wimbledon champion was a ‘dream-like creation with eyes that glisten like diamonds and hair like silk,’ said Guenther parche. The 39-year-old German bachelor confessed to a packed Hamburg courthouse: ‘She was my only love.’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ, 32 (right). The politician, at 29, became the youngest woman to serve in the U.S. congress. a day before she was sworn in, footage of her dancing as a student was shared online in an attempt to embarrass her. She reacted by filming herself dancing outside her new office and wrote: ‘i hear the [republican party] thinks women dancing are scandalous. Wait till they find out congresswomen dance too!’
PAUL SIMON, 80. The U.S. singersongwriter and actor formed his first duo with school friend art Garfunkel in the mid-50s, as Tom and Jerry. Simon, who retired from touring in 2018, has released 13 solo albums, won 16 Grammys and sold more than 100 million records.
BORN ON THIS DAY
LENNY BRUCE (1925-66). The U.S. comedian was named by rolling Stone as the third greatest stand-up of all time (behind George carlin and richard pryor). The magazine said he ‘singlehandedly transformed stand-up into an outlaw occupation’. He died from an overdose of morphine while waiting to appeal against a conviction for obscenity.
LILLIE LANGTRY (1853-1929). The actress from the channel islands was born emilie charlotte le Breton but was known as the Jersey lily, and one of the most beautiful women of her time. She inspired oscar Wilde to write an ode, The new Helen, and was painted by pre-raphaelite artists John everett Millais and edward Burne-Jones.
ON OCTOBER 13…
IN AD54, nero became the fifth emperor of rome, after the death of his adoptive father, claudius.
IN 2016, it was announced that Bob dylan (right) had become the first songwriter to win the nobel prize in literature.
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Hogget (c early 14th century)
a) The fleece of a one-year-old sheep. B) The large paunch in a pig.
c) a mole Answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED Take one’s cue from: meaning to follow someone else’s example; it comes from the theatre in which the ‘cue’ is a gesture or word spoken by one actor to serve as a warning or signal to another actor to say their lines.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. Arthur Miller, U.S. playwright (1915-2005)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY did the banana go to the doctor? Because it wasn’t peeling well. Guess The Definition answer: A. Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD