May 6, 2022 ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
May 6, 1981
YORKSHIRE ripper Peter Sutcliffe believed he had a mission from God to kill prostitutes, the Old Bailey heard yesterday.
Last week, he pleaded not guilty to the murder of 13 women but guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. But the judge expressed ‘grave anxieties’ about the pleas and decided a jury should be empanelled.
May 6, 1997
IT COULD have been any family in the middle of a drastic spring clean. Or a picture of everyday Islington folk selecting items for a jumble sale. But the organised chaos outside the three-storey house in North London yesterday was far more significant. This was the Blairs moving lock, stock and barrel to Downing Street.
Who’d have guessed Mrs Blair had 50 pairs of shoes to take? ‘The Imelda Marcos of N1,’ one onlooker called her.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
ADRIENNE WARREN, 35. The Tony award-winning U.S. actress and singer was hand-picked by Tina Turner to play her in the West end musical based on her life. At the opening night, Turner said: ‘I’ve found a replacement... I can go and retire now.’ DUNCAN SCOTT, 25. The swimmer from Glasgow last year became the first British athlete to win four medals at a single Olympics (a gold and three silvers). At the world championships in 2019, when he won bronze, he refused to shake the hand of Chinese winner Sun Yang, who was in the middle of a doping case and was later given a ban.
BORN ON THIS DAY
STEWART GRANGER (1913-1993). The Londonborn actor, ‘one of the greatest British stars of the 1940s’, changed his name from James Lablache Stewart when cast in King Solomon’s Mines to avoid confusion with star James Stewart.
GLORIA RICHARDSON (1922-2021). One of the first women to lead a grassroots civil rights movement in the U.S., the Cambridge movement, richardson was one of only six women on the programme of the March On Washington, at which Martin Luther King delivered his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech.
ON MAY 6 . . .
IN 1940, American author John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes Of Wrath. IN 1998, Apple’s Steve Jobs unveiled the first iMac computer. He said the ‘i’ stood for internet.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION: Rachis (coined c. 1780)
A) The stem or shaft of a plant. B) A lean deer not fit to hunt. C) The mantle thrown over an infant about to be christened. answer below. PHRASE EXPLAINED Six of the best: Caning as a punishment; it refers to the six strokes of the cane which was a common practice in boys’ schools.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Jazz will endure, just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. John Philip Sousa, U.S. composer and conductor (1854-1932)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT did the bottle write on the postcard? Wish you were beer! Guess The Definition answer: a. Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD