ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
february 22, 1965 MALCOLM X, the militant black nationalist leader, was assassinated yesterday in a burst of gunfire at a New York rally. His wife, Betty, saw him being killed. In the panic she ran from the back of the meeting hall screaming: ‘They’re killing my husband.’ Malcolm X returned to the U.S. after visiting Britain last week. february 22, 1967 FOUR-LETTER descriptions of sex relationships cut from the 140-minute film Ulysses will be available to cinemagoers — in print. The film’s U.S. producer, Joseph Strick, plans to issue audiences with a brochure with the banned dialogue and two pictures of censored scenes. Mr Strick said: ‘I hope people will read the brochure. The entire dialogue is important to the film.’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
THE DUCHESS OF KENT, 85 (right). Then Katharine Worsley, her wedding to the Duke of Kent — the Queen’s first cousin — was postponed because Princess Margaret married in 1960 and it was considered unacceptable to have two royal weddings in a year. Described as a ‘reclusive royal’, she was known as ‘Mrs Kent’ in a primary school in Hull, where she secretly taught music for over a decade. NIKI LAUDA, 69. The Austrian former Formula One driver and three-time world champion was badly burnt and lost half an ear when his Ferrari caught fire after a 1976 crash. He said of his disfigurement: ‘My then wife fainted when she first saw me. As I get older the scars get lost in the lines, and you just get used to it.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
SIR BRUCE FORSYTH (1928-2017). The Londonborn host of The Generation Game and Strictly Come Dancing (right) made his TV debut aged 11 in 1939. In 2012, he was awarded a Guinness World Record for having the longest career of any male television entertainer. Well-known for his love of beautiful women, when he met his third (and final) wife, Wilnelia, he said she ‘was so gorgeous my jaw dropped — and it’s a big jaw.’
ON FEBRUARY 22...
IN 1974, Samuel Byck failed in his attempt to assassinate Richard Nixon by hijacking a plane to crash it into the White House. IN 1987, American artist Andy Warhol died, aged 58, following a gallbladder operation.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION: Tinchel (1549)
A) Rings formed by hunters to trap deer by gradually closing in on them. B) A long stick with shears for cutting high branches. C) A tree bare of leaves or twigs. answer below. PHRASE EXPLAINED
To be sold down the river — to be let down or betrayed — typically by officials elected to represent workers. It originated in the U.S. slave trade: being ‘sold down the river’ referred to owners selling their black slaves down the Mississippi river — into the harsh cotton plantations of the deep South.