ON THIS DAY
November 4, 2019
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
nOVeMBeR 4, 1957 DOG-LOvErS all over the world attacked the russians yesterday for sending a dog into outer space in their second earth satellite. In London, officers of the National Canine Defence League will take a protest to the Soviet Embassy today. [A day earlier, Laika, a stray dog had been sent into space on Sputnik 2, the world’s second man-made satellite. She died from overheating.] nOVeMBeR 4, 1992 A DEFIANT Princess of Wales [pictured in Seoul with Prince Charles on what would be their last royal tour before an ‘amicable’ separation was announced just four weeks later] vowed: ‘I will not be broken.’ She is said to have told friends she would not let what she sees as meddling by family members and hostile courtiers drive her out. The claim is to be published shortly in the updated version of Andrew Morton’s book Diana: Her True Story.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
NIk POWELL, 69. The man who co-founded virgin records with his best friend richard Branson went on to help produce films such as Mona Lisa, Scandal, Ladies In Lavender and The Crying Game — nominated for six Oscars at the same time as Powell’s company that made it filed for bankruptcy. LOUISE rEDkNAPP, 45. The singer, pictured, shot to fame with classmate kelle Bryan in girl band Eternal, who had hits with Stay and I Wanna Be The Only One. She divorced footballer Jamie redknapp in 2017 after almost 20 years of marriage, a year after becoming a Strictly Come Dancing finalist, and is to release her first studio album in two decades in January.
BORN ON THIS DAY
MArGUErITE PATTEN (1915-2015). The Bath-born food writer was the author of more than 170 books. During World War II she worked for the Ministry of Food to advise the public on how to make the most of their rations and presented the BBC’s weekly radio show kitchen Front, teaching recipes using powdered egg and spam. MArTIN BALSAM (1919-1996). Described as ‘the quintessential character actor’, the New York-born star played the private detective Arbogast in Hitchcock’s 1960 thriller Psycho. When Hitchcock was directing screen tests of his protégée, Tippi Hedren, he had Balsam flown in from New York to play opposite her, saying he could think of no other actor sensitive enough to bring out the best in the actress.
ON NOVEMBER 4…
IN 1980, Hollywood star ronald reagan was elected U.S. president.
IN 1995, actor Paul Eddington, star of The Good Life and Yes, Prime Minister, died aged 68 of a rare skin cancer from which he had suffered for 40 years.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Gulch (coined
c1825) A) To steal; B) A ravine; C) To swallow Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Goody two shoes: Someone who wants everyone to think he or she is a good person; from the 1765 children’s story in which an orphan with one shoe is finally given another and tells everyone that she has two shoes so often it becomes her nickname.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
tHeRe were a lot of doctors in rehab. it’s rather like being in a fat farm with nutritionists.
Robin Williams, U.S. comedian and actor (1951-2014)
JOKE OF THE DAY
Where does Superman’s wife drive? Lois’s lane.
Guess the Definition Answer: B.