ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
JULY 1, 1972 TEENAgE tennis stars Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors held hands at Wimbledon yesterday and spoke of their love for each other. Miss Evert, 17, said: ‘I must say I’ve found something other than tennis to love.’
And 19-year-old Connors said: ‘Chris is the girl I love.’ The American couple met for the first time 12 days ago at Queen’s Club, London. JULY 1, 1992 THEy put big lights over her head in the Moses Room but the new Lady of the Lords still had to struggle to dress in front of a tailor’s mirror. The robes weighed 50lb.
A lot of people thought that the introduction of Baroness Thatcher had a little bit of Coronation about it. ‘She looks the part,’ one peer said.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
DAME OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND, 104. The Tokyo-born British actress, dubbed the ‘queen of radiant calm’, is the last-surviving principal cast member of gone With The Wind. She and her sister Joan Fontaine are still the only siblings to have both won Oscars in a leading actor category (Fontaine won one and de Havilland two). LéA SEyDOUx, 35. The French actress (right) starred in Mission: Impossible — ghost Protocol after Tom Cruise requested her, and played Bond girl Madeleine Swann in 2015’s Spectre. Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Frémaux described her as ‘Bardot, plus Binoche, plus Kate Moss, and sometimes all three at once’.
BORN ON THIS DAY
LOUIS BLéRIOT (1872-1936). The French aviator and inventor was the first person to fly the English Channel in 1909, winning the Daily Mail’s £1,000 prize money (worth about £120,000 today). The Mail reported his landmark achievement under the headline: ‘England is no longer an island’. His monoplane, displayed in the newly opened Selfridges department store, was seen by 150,000 people in four days. He also invented the world’s first practical car headlamp. MICK ASTON (1946-2013). The archaeologist from the West Midlands (right) shot to fame on Channel 4’s Time Team and was instantly recognisable thanks to his unruly white hair and signature multicoloured jumpers. He was the show’s resident expert from its launch in 1994 until 2011, when he left after complaining it had been ‘dumbed down’.
ON JULY 1...
IN 1867, Canada became a self-governing dominion of great Britain.
IN 2000, Kylie Minogue had her first No 1 in ten years, with Spinning Around.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Thills (coined 1325)
A) The traces left by a stag in the underwood through which he has passed. B) Carriage shafts to which horses were harnessed. C) The cheekbones. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Black dog — A metaphor for depression; the Latin poet Horace wrote that to see a black dog with her pups was a bad sign and a black dog has often signified the Devil; Churchill also famously referred to his depression as his ‘black dog’.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt
Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (1922-2000)
JOKE OF THE DAY
I TOLD my girlfriend she drew her eyebrows too high. She seemed surprised.
Guess The Definition answer: B.