ON THIS DAY
IT’S DAY 359 ...
ELVIS PRESLEY (right) holds the record for the longest time between No1 albums in UK chart history — 59 years 359 days between his first in November 1956 and his most recent in November this year. In October, he overtook Madonna for the most UK No 1 albums by a solo artist — 13 — when an album of reworked music went top of the charts. PRIME Minister Theresa May wore £359-apair ‘Joe Sneakers’ — in her trademark leopardskin print — when she went canvassing for the Witney by-election in October. Designer Emma Hope named the shoes after baseball player Joe DiMaggio. BRITAIN’S first chocolate house opened 359 years ago. In 1657, several newspapers reported that the public could try an ‘excellent West India drink’ called chocolate at a chocolate house in Queen’s Head Alley just off Bishopsgate in London. DAVID and Victoria Beckham gave daughter Harper the middle name Seven mainly because her father played in a Number 7 shirt for Manchester United and England. BOOTS launched its No7 own-brand beauty range in 1935, with 11 products focusing on skincare. The name was chosen because seven was often used to denote perfection. ELIzABETH TAYLOR (right) had seven husbands over eight marriages (getting wed to Richard Burton twice). The U.S. chat show host Larry King has also been married eight times to seven people (his third wife was also his fifth). LOUIS TOMLINSON, 25. The oldest member of boyband One Direction, whose mother died earlier this month after a long battle with leukaemia, revealed in 2012 that he was suffering from tinnitus and was going ‘slightly deaf in my right ear’ because his fans screamed so much. STEPHENIE MEYER, 43. The U.S. author’s Twilight novels have sold 100 million copies and become a blockbuster movie franchise. Meyer is a Mormon and, like one of her characters, Bella, avoids alcohol and tobacco. RICKY MARTIN, 45. The Puerto Rican-born singer’s hits include Livin’ La Vida Loca and She Bangs. He has said he wished he could come out as gay a second time because the first time, in 2010, was ‘blissful’. CAROLINE AHERNE (1963-2016). The Manchester-born comedian decided to become a writer at 15. She co-created The Royle Family, and Mrs Merton, whom she developed while working as a receptionist at Piccadilly Radio in Manchester. NOEL STREATFEILD (1895-1986). The Sussex-born author wrote much-loved children’s books. Ballet Shoes, was made into a 1975 BBC series, and a 2007 film starring Emma Watson and Victoria Wood. IN 1818, Stille Nacht, or Silent Night, was composed by Franz Xaver Gruber and performed in the village of Oberndorf in Austria. The church’s organ had been broken and the song was a last-minute replacement for the Christmas Eve service. IN 1922, Britain’s first radio play was broadcast by the BBC. The Truth About Father Christmas by Phyllis M. Twigg was lost to history because the BBC did not have tape recorders for another decade. The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.
Alice Cooper, U.S. rock singer WHAT does a snowman take when he gets ill? A chill pill.
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