ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE OCTOBER 11, 1991
THREE in four owners of pit bull terriers have not registered their dogs under the Dangerous Dogs Act before tomorrow’s deadline. It means their pets can be seized and destroyed after a six-week grace period ending on November 30. The law was brought in after a spate of horrific attacks.
OCTOBER 11, 2004
PRINCE HARRY, now 20, denies that a former teacher at Eton helped him cheat in his A-level art exam by completing written coursework for him in 2002. Sarah Forsyth, 30, is expected to make the allegation at an employment tribunal today. Eton and Clarence House deny the claim.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
JOAN CuSACK, 61. The u.S. actress voiced cowgirl Jessie in three Toy Story films, was Oscar nominated for Working Girl and In & Out and owns a gift shop named Judy Maxwell Home after Barbra Streisand’s role in 1972’s What’s up, Doc? She said: ‘Virginia Woolf says you have to have a room of your own. I also think . . . it’s so fun to have a shop of your own.’ CARDI B, 31. The u.S. Grammywinning rapper, born Belcalis Marlenis Almanzar, bought a $ 240,000 orange Bentley to celebrate chart success with her single Bodak Yellow in 2017, but couldn’t drive. Of the controversy over her explicit song WAP, she said the No 1 hit was about ‘female empowerment’, but the mum of two admitted: ‘Of course I don’t want my child to listen to this song and everything — but it’s for adults.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
HENRY JOHN HEINz (1844-1919). The u. S. entrepreneur and ketchup king invented the slogan ‘57 Varieties’ but it never matched the number of his firm’s products. The first shop in Britain to sell his tins of baked beans was Fortnum & Mason. He came to London with five cases but on visiting Fortnum’s first, its grocery buyer said: ‘Mr Heinz, we’ll take the lot.’ LuKE PERRY (1966-2019).
The u.S. actor shot to fame in TV’s Beverly Hills, 90210.
Born Coy Luther Perry III, he was voted ‘biggest flirt’ at high school. His last role was in the film Once upon
A Time In Hollywood and he died of a stroke at 52.
ON OCTOBER 11 . . .
IN 1961, oldest Marx brother Chico died, aged 74.
IN 2002, Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize, the third u.S. president to do so.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Onomatomania (coined 1895)
A) Delusion that one is famous. B) An obsession with words or names; especially a mania for repeating certain words or sounds. C) Obsession with accuracy.
Answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED An eye for an eye:
refers to the law of retaliation where one who hurts another is punished similarly. It originates in the Bible’s book of Exodus: ‘Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.’
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own. Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist (1667-1745)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY are some fish at the bottom of the ocean? They dropped out of school. Guess The Definition answer: B.