ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE MARCH 21, 1941
TO HELP housewives solve their catering problems, the Ministry of Food is opening 18 advice centres. The chief of the Reading bureau told me yesterday that she was giving a demonstration on ‘Suggestions for Breakfast.’ These included bacon and potato cake, sausage croquette, and savoury toast made from cod’s roe. March 21, 2003 This is the text of Tony Blair’s address to the nation last night: ‘Tonight, British servicemen and women are engaged from air, land and sea. Their mission: To remove Saddam hussein from power and disarm iraq of its weapons of mass destruction.’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Rosie o’donnell, 61. The U.S. comedian played Betty Rubble in 1994 film The Flintstones. For her role in Sleepless in Seattle, she had to have her lines taped to a crew member’s legs because she kept forgetting them. She has had a long feud with Donald Trump. After saying she had given her daughter a normal childhood, she was told: ‘Normal, Mum? it’s not normal to have a lesbian icon as a mother who fights with the president, while you are in high school.’
LORD (Michael) heseltine, 90. The Swansea- born former deputy prime minister and defence, environment and trade secretary was nicknamed Tarzan because of his resemblance to the actor who played him. his wife said: ‘it was quite fun to be married to Johnny Weissmuller. But then he became hezza, like that wretched footballer Gazza.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
PETER BROOK (1925-2022). The ‘theatre visionary’ from London directed the likes of John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier at the Royal Shakespeare Company, won a Tony on Broadway and made a nine-hour version of the Sanskrit epic the Mahabharata in a French quarry. DOROTheA BEALE (1831–1906). The London-born suffragist and pioneer of girls’ education founded St hilda’s women’s college in Oxford. She was principal of Cheltenham Ladies’ College from the age of 27 until her death 48 years later. Of her mission, Beale said: ‘Moral training is the end, education the means.’
ON MARCH 21 . . .
IN 1984, an area of New York’s Central Park was named Strawberry Fields in honour of former Beatle John Lennon.
IN 2004, a poll found rock star Ozzy Osbourne ( right) to be Britain’s favoured ambassador to welcome aliens to earth.