August 1, 2022 ON THIS DAY
AUGUST 1, 1966
ONE in five of the world’s population is said to have witnessed England’s 4-2 victory over West Germany at Wembley on Saturday. The World Cup final produced the most adventurous attacking football of the tournament, according to Daily Mail research, with 76 scoring attempts by both teams — the most in any of the 32 games.
AUGUST 1, 1998
A BAN on the use of landmines by the british military was ordered by the Government yesterday as it urged other nations to follow suit. It comes a month before the first anniversary of the death of
Diana, Princess of Wales, whose campaigning (pictured walking in a minefield in Angola in 1997) put the issue on the political agenda.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
JACK O’CONNELL, 32. The bafta-winning Derbyshire-born actor starred in TV’s This Is England and Skins. After Angelina Jolie cast him in the film Unbroken, she flew to Derby to take his family out for a pub supper. O’Connell said school drama classes were ‘a welcome change from being sent to face the wall in the corridor’. His dream is ‘to travel round Europe in my caravan’. ADRIAN DUNBAR, 64. The actor from Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, became a star thanks to his role as Supt Ted Hastings in bbC drama Line Of Duty. He suggested the character’s famous catchphrase: ‘Now we’re sucking diesel’ and ‘rustles up bowls of pasta or fry-ups’ for co- stars. Dunbar started out as a musician and has sung at ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club.
BORN ON THIS DAY
MARCIA MAE JONES (1924-2007). The U. S. child star appeared in 1930s films The Champ and Heidi with Shirley Temple and made her screen debut at just six months. Jones put her early start down to having ‘a motion-picture mother’. Her education was badly affected by her career and on leaving school at 17, she ‘knew absolutely nothing’. HANNAH HAUXWELL (1926-2018). The Yorkshire hill farmer shot to fame in the 1973 ITV documentary Too Long A Winter, which showed her solitary existence living on £5 a week. Though just 46, her hair was white, and after the broadcast gifts and cash arrived for ‘the old lady in the Dales’. She spent it on a few cows and had electricity installed but felt forced by age to leave in 1988. The farm is now a nature reserve.
ON AUGUST 1 . . .
IN 1980, Iceland’s Vigdís Finnbogadóttir (pictured) began serving as the world’s first democratically elected female president. IN 2015, TV presenter Cilla black died, aged 72, after a fall in Spain.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION:
Blush (coined 1987)
A) To present a bouquet. b) Diagonally across from. C) rosé wine. answer below. PHRASE EXPLAINED
Noblesse oblige: Meaning ‘nobility has its obligations’. It derives from the 1812 work Maximes Et Réflexions by the Duc de Lévis, a French soldier and writer.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
The best number for a dinner party is two — myself and a damn good head waiter.
Nubar Gulbenkian, British oil tycoon (1896-1972)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY are fish terrible tennis players?
They don’t like getting close to the net. Guess The Definition answer: C.