October 30, 2020 ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE OCTOBER 30, 1956
THE Queen met Marilyn Monroe last night, shook her hand and talked to her as a neighbour, as Miss Monroe is staying at a house in Windsor. ‘Oh, yes,’ she said, ‘we love it, and as we have a permit my husband [Arthur Miller] and I go for bicycle rides and walks in the Great Park.’ Miss Monroe thought the Queen very warmhearted. ‘ She radiates a wonderful womanliness and sweetness,’ said Marilyn.
OCTOBER 30, 1982
LINDY CHAMBERLAIN, who claimed her baby daughter Azaria was killed by a dingo, was found guilty of murder yesterday and sentenced to life. The jury at the Darwin Supreme Court in Australia’s northern Territory decided Chamberlain had invented the story of the wild dog stealing the child from the family’s tent. [Her conviction was later quashed and she was pardoned in 1987. A fourth inquest ruled in 2012 that a dingo did cause Azaria’s death.]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
DIEGO MARADONA, 60. The Argentine footballer is best remembered for his ‘Hand of God’ goal (right) in the 1986 Mexico World Cup quarter-final against England. Four minutes later, he scored again with what one writer called the ‘only miracle of the 20th century’ after dribbling from his own half. Argentina won the match 2-1.
IVANKA TRUMP, 39. The daughter of (and adviser to) the u.S. President was described by the Washington Post as ‘the most influential daughter in White House history’. Ivanka is a nickname and she actually shares her name with her mother Ivana. She started modelling at 14, but said: ‘Models were the meanest, cattiest, bitchiest girls on the planet… entitled, unsupervised, undereducated, pampered teenagers . . .’
BORN ON THIS DAY
JOHN ADAMS (1735-1826). The u.S.’s first vice president (right) succeeded George Washington as president, but was the first leader to occupy the White House — then known as President’s House. He wrote in a letter to his wife Abigail: ‘May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.’
RUTH GORDON (1896-1985). The u.S. actress started out in silent film and went on to win an Oscar, aged 72, for her role as a devil-worshipper in Rosemary’s Baby. Her father had tried to persuade her to become a physical education teacher, but Gordon said: ‘I wanted to do something a little more sexy.’ When she died at 88, she had four films awaiting release.
ON OCTOBER 30 . . .
IN 1934, the BBC opened its Maida vale Studios in London, after converting the building from a skating rink. IN 1957, plans were tabled to allow women to sit in the House of Lords.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Nullifidian (c1560) A) A pessimist. B) A person who has no religion. C) untrustworthy. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED One man’s meat is another man’s poison — meaning what is agreeable to one person is unpalatable or harmful to another; it was first recorded in about 1576.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Being a sex symbol is rather like being a convict.
Raquel Welch, U.S. actress
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY aren’t koalas actual bears? They don’t have the koalafications.
Guess The Definition answer: B.