ON THIS DAY
November 8, 2023
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE NOVEMBER 8, 1988
A FAR-REACHING vision of what future generations will see on their TV screens was unveiled yesterday by Home Secretary Douglas Hurd. in the biggest shake-up in TV history, he promised dozens of new channels and hundreds of radio stations, creating greater choice for viewers. NOVEMBER 8, 2003
CATHERINE ZeTA- JONeS and her husband Michael Douglas have been awarded a humiliatingly low sum in damages after winning their High Court case.
The Hollywood stars wanted £600,000 for distress they suffered over the publication of unofficial wedding photographs.
A judge has decided that they should get only £3,750 each for the distress, £50 each for a breach of their rights, and £7,000 to cover expenses.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
LADY LOUISE WINDSOR, 20. The Duke and Duchess of edinburgh tried so hard to keep their daughter grounded that when she started school, she did not know her grandmother’s official role. Sophie, then Countess of Wessex, said louise came home saying: ‘Mummy, people keep telling me that grandma is the Queen.’
BONNIE RAITT, 74. Fans of the u.S. musician were outraged she was described as an unknown blues singer when she won this year’s best song grammy for her ballad Just like That. Despite being on rolling
Stone magazine’s list of the world’s greatest singers, she has said: ‘For many years, i couldn’t stand listening to my own voice.’ george Michael and Adele covered her hit i Can’t Make You love Me.
BORN ON THIS DAY
HERMANN RORSCHACH (1884-1922). The Swiss psychiatrist came up with the rorschach test for diagnosing mental illness with inkblots. He believed that what a person perceived in a splash of ink would reveal their personality. it was used in the Nuremberg trials, but critics have damned it as pseudoscience.
SIR KEN DODD (19272018). The comic from knotty Ash, liverpool, had a 63-year career in showbusiness. During his trial for tax fraud, it emerged the Diddy Men creator (right) had hidden £300,000 in wardrobes, but he was acquitted.
ON NOVEMBER 8 . . .
IN 1960, John F. kennedy, 43, became the youngest elected u.S. president.
IN 1989, the BBC’s Byker grove first aired. it would bring Ant and Dec to fame.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION Fard (coined 1450)
A) To bring forth a litter of pigs. B) To coagulate, congeal, shrink, wither. C) To paint the face with cosmetics to hide blemishes. Answer below. PHRASE EXPLAINED
A bolt from the blue: meaning a complete surprise, like a bolt of lightning from a clear blue sky. it derives from Thomas Carlyle, in The French revolution, 1837: ‘Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue, has hit strange victims.’
QUOTE FOR TODAY
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller, U.S. author and disability rights advocate (1880-1968)
JOKE OF THE DAY
Where do eggs go on holiday?
New Yolk.
Guess The Definition answer: C.