ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE JANUARY 10, 1972
EMERGENCY plans to combat the effects of the miners’ strike [the first national coal miners’ walkout in almost half a century] have been drawn up in Whitehall. They are designed to ensure coal supplies for factories, schools, hospitals, essential services and homes with special needs.
JANUARY 10, 2006
PETE BURNS could face jail over a gorilla- skin coat he has worn in the Big Brother house. The Dead Or Alive singer insists it is made from the endangered species. If true, the Department for Environment, Food and rural Affairs said he could face ‘serious consequences’. [Tests later found it was made of Colobus monkey fur and therefore legal to own.]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
GUNTHER VON HAGENS, 78. The German anatomist, nicknamed ‘ Dr Death’, invented ‘plastination’, a technique for preserving corpses and their organs. Body Worlds, his display of these, is one of the world’s most successful travelling exhibitions. von hagens, who has Parkinson’s disease, has asked his anatomist wife Angelina (both pictured) to plastinate his body after his death and put it on show, topped by his fedora.
GURINDER CHADHA, 63. The Kenyanborn British filmmaker shot Keira Knightley and Parminder Nagra to fame in Bend It Like Beckham. The film made £63 million at the box office. She has co-written almost all her films with her husband Paul Mayeda Berges. Chadha said: ‘I’d been told by a numerologist two years previously the exact month that I’d meet him, and his initials — and I did!’
BORN ON THIS DAY
LINDA LOVELACE (19492002). The u.S. actress, ‘the first superstar of erotic entertainment’, starred in Deep Throat, the film — banned in Britain — that gave the nickname to the anonymous source for much of the Washington
Post’s reporting of the Watergate scandal. In her memoir, Ordeal, Lovelace told of the violent and sexual abuse she endured during her career.
SCOTT MCKENZIE (1939-2012). The u.S. singer-songwriter recorded hippie anthem San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In your hair). released to promote 1967’s Monterey Pop Festival, it is said to have launched the ‘Summer of Love’.
ON JANUARY 10 . . .
IN 1920, the post-World War I Treaty of versailles came into effect.
IN 1957, harold Macmillan was appointed Prime Minister following Anthony Eden’s resignation in the wake of the Suez Crisis.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION: Caterwaul (late 14th century)
A) Fighting with an imaginary enemy. B) Ill-balanced, shaky. C) To utter a long, wailing cry. answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED Under the harrow:
Meaning in distress. A harrow is an iron farm implement like a plough that breaks up clods. An animal caught under one would suffer horribly.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
Barry Humphries, Australian satirist
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHO was the roundest knight at King Arthur’s round table? Sir Cumference. Guess The Definition answer: C. Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD