ON THIS DAY
May 24, 2023
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
May 24, 1977
PRINCE CHARLES was installed yesterday as the newest member of Scotland’s oldest order of chivalry. He became a Knight of the Thistle in a ceremony at St Giles’ Cathedral, edinburgh. The ceremony brought pomp and pageantry to the Queen’s Jubilee tour of Scotland, which has so far been marked by its free-and-easy walkabout style. The formality returned, however, as Charles left the cathedral wearing full regalia.
May 24, 2002
NOT since Charles I’s head was separated from his shoulders has there been such a public execution. TV viewers will tonight witness the decapitation of the reputation of Angus Deayton. This evening’s Have I Got News For You was recorded amid tight security in London last night. Colleagues Ian Hislop and Paul Merton produced copies of the Sunday newspaper that broke the tale of his powder-packed trysts with 29-year-old Caroline Martin.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
DERMOT O’LEARY, 50.
The essex-born radio 2 DJ and TV presenter was voted among the top 40
‘sexiest men on the planet’ by Cosmo readers in 2008.
Now presenting This Morning after Phillip Schofield’s departure, he hosted 11 series of The X
Factor and says: ‘I’ll never say anything bad about it because it bought me my house.’ ORLA KIELY, 60. The Irish-born ‘Queen of Prints’ has seen her designs on everything from a double-decker bus to Tesco bags for life. She says: ‘The colours and forms are those of my childhood in Ireland, where the gorse blazes yellow and there really are so many shades of green.’ She said her brand going into liquidation in 2018 ‘was like a bereavement’.
BORN ON THIS DAY
BARBARA WEST DAINTON ( 1911- 2007). Born in Bournemouth, she was one of the last two known survivors of the Titanic and was just ten months old at the time of the disaster, in which 1,500 people died, including her father. She hated the publicity associated with the sinking and insisted her funeral take place before her death, aged 96, was announced. Gene ANTHONY Ray (1962-2003). The actor and dancer played Leroy in the 1980 film Fame and spin-off TV series, about students at the New York High School for the Performing Arts — from which he’d been expelled in real life.
ON MAY 24. . .
IN 1883, Brooklyn Bridge — at the time, the longest suspension bridge in the world — was opened in New York.
IN 2007, rehab by Amy Winehouse won an Ivor Novello for best contemporary song.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Winge (2011)
A) To worry. B) A false fringe hair piece. C) To rush at an airport. answer below PHRASE EXPLAINED
Hang someone out to dry: Meaning to leave someone in a vulnerable or difficult position; it alludes to the image of wet laundry flapping ineffectually on the line.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish writer (1899-1973)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHO eats nuts and bolts? a squirrel who is late for work. Guess The Definition answer: B.