ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE JUNE 6, 1963
PReSIDeNT Kennedy ordered immediate development of a 2,000 mph American airliner to compete with the 1,400 mph Anglo-French Concorde. As Pan American Airways ordered six Concordes, he said international air competition would not permit the U.S. to lag behind Britain and France. The U.S. had held the world leadership in jet transport since the war and he was determined to see this maintained.
JUNE 6, 1981
THe world’s first test tube twins were born yesterday to an Australian couple who have been trying to start a family for eight years. Amanda and Stephen were delivered by Caesarean section at a Melbourne hospital. ‘This is the happiest moment of my life,’ said 33- year- old Rodney Mays after watching the historic birth to his wife, Radmila, aged 31.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
JASON ISAACS, 60. The actor from Liverpool played villain Lucius Malfoy (right) in six of the eight Harry Potter movies. He said he was delighted to take on a role in comedy The Death Of Stalin: ‘My mates think I’m funny, but I’ve never done it on screen. I’m normally killing or being killed . . . on screen.’
BJORN BORG, 67. The Swedish tennis star, former world No 1, won Wimbledon five times on the trot between 1976 and 1980. His superstitions included using the same locker and number of towels and abstaining from sex and shaving for the duration of a tournament.
BORN ON THIS DAY
ALexANDRA FeODOROVNA (18721918). Princess Alix of Hesse was the last empress of Russia as the consort of her cousin, emperor Nicholas II. The granddaughter of Queen Victoria bore four daughters before giving birth to Alexei, who suffered from haemophilia. During the 1917 Russian Revolution, the tsar, tsarina and their five children were killed by Bolsheviks.
ANGeLO MORIONDO (1851-1914). The Italian is credited with inventing the first espresso machine. In 1884, he received a patent for his ‘new steam machinery for the economic and instantaneous confection of coffee beverage’. The device allowed him to make multiple cups at once for impatient customers at the Grand Hotel Ligure in Turin, which he owned.
ON JUNE 6 . . .
IN 1984, Alexey Pajitnov released Tetris in the Soviet Union — it remains No 1 of alltime best-selling video games. IN 2005, U.S. actress Anne Bancroft, star of 1967 film The Graduate
(right), died aged 73.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION Reshoring (2014)
A) To fill up with food; B) Bringing outsourced services back to original location; C) Giving comfort. answer below. PHRASE EXPLAINED
Lower one’s guard: Meaning to stop being cautious; it comes from boxing in which a ‘guard’ is a defensive or protective stance.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
He who writes badly thinks badly.
William Cobbett, English political reformer (1763-1835)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT’S a crocodile’s favourite game? Snap!
Guess The Definition answer: B.