ON THIS DAY
February 28, 2023
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
FEBRUARY 28, 1964
HUNDREDS of teenagers are throwing up promising careers in Liverpool to try to follow the success of The Beatles, city officials said yesterday. Beat groups in the city now total 1,000.
FEBRUARY 28, 1975
BRITISH Airways’ first concorde flew yesterday. The plane — registration GBOAc — was taken up by test pilot Brian Trubshaw, reaching 800mph, just over the speed of sound, during the 113-minute flight from Filton, Bristol. British Airways and their concorde partners Air France are racing each other to start the first faster-than-sound passenger service.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
STEPHANIE BEACHAM, 76. The Hertfordshire-born, Rada- trained actress starred Sable colby in Dynasty and said her role as Ken Barlow’s love interest in coronation Street was ‘one of the most joyous experiences ever’. She said of her attitude towards her career: ‘Do everything, do it all, keep current . . . and watch your back.’ FRANK GEHRY, 94. The canadian ‘starchitect’ has designed buildings such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and a Berlin bank shaped like ‘a distorted horse’s head’. A builder who worked on a Gehry-designed business school in Sydney was so inspired he got a tattoo of the bricklaying pattern on his arm.
BORN ON THIS DAY
SYREETA WRIGHT (1946-2004). The u.S. singer co-wrote several hits with her husband Stevie Wonder, including Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m yours). They were married for only two years but remained friends and collaborated even after their divorce, and Wonder said: ‘She played a significant part in my working with songs and really getting into songs.’ HARRY H. CORBETT (1925-1982). The Burmeseborn British actor, once dubbed ‘the english Marlon Brando’, played rag-and-bone man Harold Steptoe in the BBc’s Steptoe And Son — one of the first TV comedies to show workingclass life. After reading the first script, corbett, who was then known for serious theatre roles, wrote back: ‘Delicious, delighted, can’t wait to work on it.’
ON FEBRUARY 28 . . .
IN 1922, egypt gained its independence from the uK.
IN 1953, english scientist Francis crick walked into The eagle pub in cambridge and announced that he and James Watson had ‘discovered the secret of life’ — after deciphering the double- helix structure of DNA.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: nacreous (1840)
A) Having a pearly lustre. B) Sinister. c) Black. answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Turn the other cheek: Meaning to refrain from retaliating, to submit to violence or insult and not to resist; from the gospel of Matthew: ‘But whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.’
QUOTE FOR TODAY
ah well, I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means Oscar Wilde, Irish writer and wit (1854-1900)
JOKE OF THE DAY
HOW did the artist protect her home? With a drawbridge.
Guess The Definition answer: a