ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
NOVEMBER 9, 1977 PRINCESS Anne and captain Mark Phillips have decided not to accept a title, which means the Princess’s baby — fifth in line to the throne — will be known simply as Miss or Master Phillips. It will be the first time a Sovereign has had an untitled grandchild for nearly 500 years. NOVEMBER 9, 1987
ELEVEN people were slaughtered at a cenotaph yesterday in an act which plumbed the depths of terrorism. Another 61 men, women and children were injured as a massive bomb devastated a community hall at Enniskillen, county Fermanagh.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
GARETH MALONE, 48. The Bournemouth- born TV choirmaster — described as a ‘human tuning fork’ — shot to fame in the BBC’s Baftawinning The choir. He said that during his Military Wives series — the choir took the christmas No 1 in 2011 — he ‘kept calm by peeling potatoes’.
ROGER McGOUGH, 86. The poet, playwright and broadcaster from Liverpool has published more than 50 poetry anthologies and topped the charts in 1968 with Lily The Pink as a member of The Scaffold. He has voiced ads for classic FM and Waitrose, saying: ‘I enjoyed doing my “Waitrose” voice at the store checkout, but the cashiers never batted an eyelid.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
JILL DANDO (1961-1999). The BBC newsreader and presenter of Holiday and crimewatch was hailed as the ‘golden girl’ of British television. She was shot dead, aged 37, on her doorstep in Fulham, London, in a murder that remains unsolved.
HEDY LAMARR ( 19142000). The Viennese-born actress, star of Samson And Delilah, could speak four languages by her teens, and was unimpressed with being called ‘the most beautiful woman in the world’. Hedy (short for Hedwig) helped to develop a ‘frequency-hopping’ technology designed to protect u.S. torpedoes in World War II that would lead to the creation of wifi, bluetooth and GPS.
ON NOVEMBER 9...
IN 1908, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was elected to lead Aldeburgh in Suffolk, becoming Britain’s first female mayor.
IN 2000, Eric Morley, British founder of Miss World and come Dancing, died, aged 82.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION: Galligaskins (c 1577)
A) Loose breeches. B) Paper or rag chewed into small pieces by mice. c) Downy particles that accumulate under furniture.
Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED A chip on one’s shoulder:
from a 19th-century u.S. custom in bars and schools where someone wanting a fight placed a chip of wood on his shoulder — then challenged anyone who dared to knock it off.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
I had an interest in death from an early age. It fascinated me. When I heard “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall”, I thought, “Did he fall, or was he pushed?”
PD James, English crime writer (1920-2014)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY did the baker stop making doughnuts?
He was fed up with the hole business. Guess The Definition answer: A.