ON THIS DAY
November 2, 2022
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE NOVEMBER 2, 1922
THE Post Office yesterday began the issue of wireless broadcasting licences, and these are now on sale at every Post Office in the kingdom. Postmasters will issue licences for receiving stations in their own districts only, so applicants should be careful to apply at their proper post offices.
NOVEMBER 2, 1990
THE issue of Britain’s future in Europe triggered the biggest flashpoint of the Thatcher years last night when Sir Geoffrey Howe stormed out of the Cabinet. The resignation of the Deputy Prime Minister shook the Tory Party to the core and Mrs Thatcher accepted it ‘more in sorrow than anger’. She’d had no advance warning and was stunned by what Sir Geoffrey said at a 30-minute meeting in her study.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
SAMANTHA WOMACK,
50. The actress from Brighton played Ronnie Mitchell in EastEnders and represented the UK in the
1991 Eurovision Song Contest, aged 18. Her parents separated when she was three and Womack ended up living with her choreographer grandmother aboard the QE2. She revealed in a social media post earlier this year that she had breast cancer.
PETER MULLAN, 63. The Scottish actor and filmmaker is best known for his role as a recovering alcoholic in Ken Loach’s My Name Is Joe, for which he won Best Actor Award at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. One of eight children, he dropped out of school at 14 to join a Glasgow gang, before returning to education and enrolling at Glasgow University at 17 to study economic history and drama.
BORN ON THIS DAY
LUCHINO VISCONTI (1906-1976). The Italian film director made The Damned and Death In Venice, starring Dirk Bogarde. Visconti, who was friends with designer Coco Chanel, helped discover opera star Maria Callas. He said he only made films if he had something he needed to say. ALICE BRADY (1892-1939). The U.S. actress played Ginger Rogers’s aunt in The Gay Divorcee and the mother of Carole Lombard in My Man Godfrey, and won an Oscar for In Old Chicago. According to the LA Times: ‘ Millions laughed at her portrayal of nit-witted, fluttery, bejewelled society women.’
ON NOVEMBER 2…
IN 1964, the first episode of ITV soap Crossroads, starring Noele Gordon as motel owner Meg Richardson (here in 1975), was broadcast. IN 1983, U. S. President Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing Martin Luther King Jr Day in honour of the civil rights leader.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Wizen (9th century) A) Second swarm of bees in the same season. B) A lean deer not fit to hunt.
C) To wither; dry up. Answer below PHRASE EXPLAINED
Lie doggo — meaning to remain completely motionless and quiet; it comes from a dog’s habit of lying still or apparently asleep while nonetheless alert.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
It would be a lot easier if my father had been a builder or a painter or a plumber.
Lisa Marie Presley, singer and daughter of Elvis
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY are penguins socially awkward? Because they can’t break the ice. Guess The Definition answer: C. Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD