ON THIS DAY
September 14, 2020
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
SEPTEMBER 14, 1977 IN Washington yesterday when Mrs Thatcher met President Carter a newspaper called her super nannie. The Washington Star said: ‘The view of Margaret Thatcher as a classic Conservative lady is giving way to a more evocative image: headmistress and nannie combined. A super nannie who’ll make everyone take their medicine.’
SEPTEMBER 14, 2001 GEORGE BuSH launched a major diplomatic effort last night to build a global military coalition against Osama Bin Laden and his allies. There was intense speculation that he may even ask Nato to mount an all-out attack on Iraq — and finally topple Saddam Hussein. The President spoke grimly of ‘the first war of the 21st century’.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
AMANDA BARRIE, 85. The actress from Lancashire played Cleopatra in Carry On Cleo and Alma Sedgewick (later Baldwin) in Coronation Street. She has been isolating in Somerset with her wife, crime writer Hilary Bonner. Of coronavirus, she said: ‘I’m a wartime babe. Childhood memories include being buried in an avalanche of black-market tinned peas while sheltering from bombs under the cellar stairs. Nothing, nothing comes close to this.’
ANDREW LINCOLN, 47. The Rada-trained actor, born Andrew Clutterbuck in London, made his name as Egg in BBC drama This Life and Simon Casey in Channel 4 sitcom Teachers, before moving to the u.S. to star in The Walking Dead. For his final season of the horror series, he was paid $11million — putting him in the ten highest earning actors of 2018.
BORN ON THIS DAY
JACK HAWKINS (1910-1973), the Londonborn star of The Bridge On The River Kwai, Lawrence Of Arabia and Ben-Hur. He appeared in half a dozen films after having his larynx removed following cancer of the throat. Hawkins taught himself to speak again using his diaphragm and stomach muscles.
AMy WINEHOuSE (19832011). The singer-songwriter from London named her debut album Frank after her hero Frank Sinatra. She took great pride in her beehive, saying: ‘My hair is always on point, even if the rest of me is really naff.’ She died aged 27 of alcohol poisoning.
ON SEPTEMBER 14...
IN 1998, the first episode of sitcom The Royle Family — created by Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash — aired on BBC2.
IN 2007, Northern Rock confirmed it had agreed emergency funding from the Bank of England, triggering queues of customers trying to empty their accounts.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Compeer (mid-14th century)
A) A preacher of a fiery sermon. B) One who partakes of the wine and bread at communion. C) An equal in rank or ability.
Answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED
As snug as a bug in a rug: Meaning to be in an extremely comfortable position or situation; it first appears as a quotation from the actor David Garrick in 1769.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright (1856-1950)
JOKE OF THE DAY
I’M MAKING a list of reasons to move to Switzerland. The flag is a big plus.
Guess The Definition answer: C.