ON THIS DAY
November 22, 2021
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE NOVEMBER 22, 1963
TELEPHONES for all, anywhere in Britain, within five years. That is the promise in the latest White paper on the telephone service. By March 1966, it says, the waiting list of 44,000 will be wiped out.
NOVEMBER 22, 1989
TELEVISION yesterday scored a success in its debut screening of the house of Commons at work. It was more dynamic than broadcasters hoped and far better than politicians feared. For the first time, viewers could see Mrs Thatcher and Mr Kinnock confront each other in the Chamber.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
MARK RUFFALO, 54. The American actor had 800 auditions in eight years before being cast as hulk in The Avengers (right) and starring in spotlight. In 2019, despite living in the u.s., he signed an open letter supporting Jeremy Corbyn. he dreamed he had a brain tumour before being diagnosed with a benign one when his wife was expecting their first child. he told her after the birth.
SIR BEN HELFGOTT, 92. The sportsman, born in poland, survived concentration camps and lost both parents in the horror. After the war, he arrived in the lake District with 700 orphans to start a new life, and went on to captain the British Olympic weightlifting team. In 2018, he was knighted for services to holocaust education.
BORN ON THIS DAY
BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913-1976). The composer from suffolk is best known for his opera peter grimes and for The War Requiem, written for the reconsecration of Coventry Cathedral. Britten, who began writing symphonies at 12, and turned down a knighthood, once said that music had ‘the beauty of loneliness, of pain’. JERRIE MOCK (19252014). The u.s. pilot became the first woman to fly solo around the world in 1964. In saudi Arabia, locals looked in the plane to locate the male aviator, but applauded when they realised she was the only person on board. Mock, who called herself ‘the flying housewife’, said: ‘I guess I was a women’s libber before it was popular. I knew one thing: I wanted to see the world.’
ON NOVEMBER 22…
IN 1869, the world’s final tea clipper, the Cutty sark, was launched in Dumbarton. IN 1986, Mike Tyson became the youngest ever world heavyweight champion, age 20.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION: Embrasure (c1700)
A) To stuff one bird into another. B) Dress hoops. C) Recess in a wall around the sides of a window or door. Answer below. PHRASE EXPLAINED: Famous last words — Refers to a humorous comment, suggesting optimism might be misplaced. Originally it was used to refer to the real dying words of prominent people, but by the 20th century the phrase was being used figuratively.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
I have a certain camel-like quality. I have a certain storage capacity. But then I have to recharge again.
Angela Merkel, German Chancellor
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT did the dragon say when he met a knight in armour? I love tinned food. Guess The Definition answer: C