June 15, 2022 ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVES JUNE 15, 1983
WITHIN minutes of the arrival of ‘Chuck and Di’ — as the Canadians call them — the Diana fever that gripped Australia and New Zealand was under way again. More than 10,000 people gathered in Halifax’s old military garrison for the official welcoming ceremony, as screams of ‘We want Diana!’ drowned out much of the proceedings.
JUNE 15, 2005
TWO of the jurors who cleared Michael Jackson said yesterday they believed he probably had abused children — but there had not been enough evidence to convict him. Jackson’s lawyer said the singer would no longer share his bed with young boys.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
HELEN HUNT, 59. The U.S. actress and director starred in What Women Want and won an Oscar for As Good
As It Gets. She has regularly been mistaken for fellow Academy Award winner
Jodie Foster, including by a Starbucks barista who wrote the latter’s name on Hunt’s coffee order. The company responded by tweeting: ‘Sorry about that! We hope the drink was still as good as it gets.’ SIMON CALLOW, 73. The actor from London won Bafta nods for his roles in A Room With A View and Four Weddings And A Funeral. The part of Gareth in the latter was written for him especially by Richard Curtis. Callow said: ‘As I looked at the script, I thought: “I bet I’m going to be the funeral”, and so I was.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
NINI THEILADE (1915-2018). The Danish ballerina joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, at that time the most celebrated touring company in the world, and starred opposite James Cagney and Mickey Rooney in 1935 Oscar winner A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She taught until 98, published her autobiography at 100 and died aged 102, a great-grandmother 11 times over. WAYLON JENNINGS (19372002). The Grammy-winning U.S. country singer- songwriter, who sold more than 40 million records, was a protege of Buddy Holly. He gave up his seat on the plane which crashed in 1959, killing Holly and fellow stars the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens — known as the day the music died. In the 1970s, he was a founder of the ‘outlaw’ style of country music, along with Willie Nelson.
ON JUNE 15…
IN 1970, Charles Manson went on trial for the murder of seven people, including actress Sharon Tate.
IN 1996, American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald died, aged 79.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION: Sough (c. b900)
A) To make a moaning or whistling sound, as the wind in the trees. B) A slight, cough. C) Sufficient, enough. Answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED Banana republic:
American phrase of 1904 meaning a small tropical state, very often with an unstable government and typically in Central America, its economy wholly dependent on a single export such as bananas.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
ThE liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people John Stuart Mill, English philosopher (1806-1973)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT do you call two men who install blinds? Curt and Rod.
Guess The Definition answer: A. Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD