ON THIS DAY
October 22, 2021
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
OCTOBER 22, 1970
CIGARETTE smoking is killing 100,000 people a year in Britain. Statistics released by the Government today show an estimated increase of 25,000 deaths blamed on the habit.
OCTOBER 22, 1987
THE amazing sex life of the late President John F. Kennedy is to be revealed in a new book. Author David Heymann says he has built up a detailed picture of Kennedy’s philandering by checking dates, times and names recorded in the notebooks of the Secret Service agents who guarded him. Kennedy’s lovers are said to have included Marilyn Monroe and Mafia moll Judith Exner.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
CATHERINE DENEUVE, 78. The French actress, star of Belle De Jour (right) and The Last Metro, and ex-wife of British photographer David Bailey, said: ‘I detest selfies . . . it makes everything banal.’ When she put 129 items of clothing designed for her by Yves Saint Laurent up for auction in 2019, they topped $1million. JEFF GOLDBLUM, 69. The U.S. actor and jazz musician starred in Jurassic Park and Independence Day. He has denied rumours that while acting in The Fly, he kept a real fly in his pocket. ‘no! I put it in a plastic bag and stuck it to a wall in the trailer,’ he joked (we hope). His first child was born when he was 62.
BORN ON THIS DAY
BERT TRAUTMANN (1923-2013). The German-born Manchester City footballer went from Luftwaffe paratrooper and prisoner of war to ‘one of the most acclaimed British goalkeepers of his generation’. He played the last 17 minutes of Man City’s FA Cup final win in 1956 with a broken neck, sustained after colliding with another player. In 2004, he was made an OBE for his Anglo-German reconciliation work.
SARAH BERNHARDT (1844-1923). The French star wore a dead bat as an accessory and went on tour with her own coffin. Bernhardt (right), whose lovers included Les Misérables author Victor Hugo and Edward, Prince of Wales, was described as ‘childishly egotistical’ by George Bernard Shaw.
ON OCTOBER 22 . . .
IN 1930, the BBC relayed the first broadcast performance of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, from the Queen’s Hall, London. IN 1972, England goalkeeper Gordon Banks lost the sight in his right eye in a car crash and never played for his country again.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Dibble (circa mid-14th century)
A) A pointed hand tool for making holes in the ground for seeds.
B) A morsel.
C) The second swarm of bees in the same season.
Answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED Pay through the nose: Meaning to pay an excessive amount for something. It may allude to the Danish ‘nose tax’, imposed in 9th-century Ireland, whereby those who didn’t pay their taxes were punished by having their noses slit.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President (1809-1865)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT did one rock pool say to the other? Show us your mussels.
Guess The Definition answer: A