FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
May 2, 1967
ELvIS PRESLEy ended his era as the most eligible bachelor in showbusiness today. At 32, he married 21-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, an army colonel’s daughter whom he met in Germany eight years ago. The wedding, in Las vegas, was a surprise. The first hint came at 3.30am today when the couple flew into the city and took out a marriage licence.
May 2, 1994
THE man they called the best driver in the world lies beside the mangled remains of his racing car.
But the shocked rescuers frantically crowding round triple world champion Ayrton Senna could do nothing for him.
Four-and-a-half hours after his horrific 180mph crash into a concrete wall in the San Marino Grand Prix yesterday, the 34-year-old Brazilian was declared dead.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
ALAN TITCHMARSH, 73. After life-size cutouts of him were stolen from B&Q, the Tv presenter, gardening expert and novelist said he didn’t know if it was because of his sex symbol status or ‘for people to put them in their shed windows to frighten the burglars’. As host of the BBC’s Ground Force, Titchmarsh boosted annual sales of decking at B&Q from £9,000 to £8 million. CHRISTINE BARANSkI, 70. The Emmyand Tony-winning U.S. actress starred in television’s The Good Wife and on the big screen in Chicago and Mamma Mia. But she raised her own children without a Tv.
BORN ON THIS DAY
BENjAMIN SPOCk (1903-1998). The U.S. paediatrician’s seminal 1946 parenting guide, The Common Sense Book Of Baby And Child Care, dismissed the rigid schedules imposed by previous generations. It began: ‘Trust yourself. you know more than you think you do.’ LESLEy GORE (19462015). The ‘teenage voice of heartbreak’ is best known for hits It’s My Party (‘and I’ll cry if I want to’) and you Don’t Own Me, later covered by Dusty Springfield and Amy Winehouse).
ON MAY 2 . . .
IN 1519, Italian artist and scientist
Leonardo da vinci died, aged 67. IN 1964, the first episode of the BBC science series Horizon was broadcast. It is the ‘longest-running, multi-theme science documentary series’ in history.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION: Revetment (c1770)
A) A garter tied below the knee of a young man as a sign he was about to propose. B) Masonry to protect an embankment. C) The custom requiring a man to marry his brother’s widow.
answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED: Turn the other cheek,
meaning to refrain from retaliating; it comes from the Gospel of Matthew: ‘But whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.’
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we’ve already eaten. Tony Benn, Labour politician (1925-2014)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT happened when the robot went to the police station? It was charged with battery. Guess The Definition answer: B.