ON THIS DAY
January 21, 2022
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
JANUARY 21, 1993
AuDREY HEPBuRn lost her battle with cancer last night. The 63-year-old actress, who died at home in Lausanne, Switzerland, was awarded an Oscar for Roman Holiday and won acclaim for films including Funny Face, My Fair Lady and Breakfast At Tiffany’s. Close friend and Roman Holiday co-star Gregory Peck said: ‘There will never be another like her.’
JANUARY 21, 2017
DOnALD TRuMP was sworn in on Capitol Hill as the 45th u.S. president yesterday. The 70-year-old tycoon fired both barrels at the political establishment even as they shifted uneasily in their chairs around him in Washington, saying: ‘This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
GEEnA DAvIS, 66. The u. S. actress played Thelma Dickinson in Thelma & Louise and won an Oscar for The Accidental Tourist. Davis, whose four former husbands include actor Jeff Goldblum, said: ‘I keep trying to get it right.’ She had twins at the age of 48. In 2007, she launched the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media which campaigns to improve the representation of women in entertainment. BILLY OCEAn, 72. The singer who grew up in Essex had hits including When The Going Gets Tough and Caribbean Queen. At the start of his career in the 1970s he bought a mini upright piano for £23 . . . despite living in a third-floor council flat. He said: ‘Imagine trying to take a piano up three floors. no matter how small the piano is, it’s still a big, heavy thing.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
EvA IBBOTSOn (1925-2010). The viennaborn British author did not publish her first children’s book until she was 50, but was best known for Journey To The River Sea, which won the Smarties Prize. PAuL ALLEn (1953-2018). The u.S. businessman was one of the richest men in the world thanks to Microsoft, which he cofounded with former schoolfriend Bill Gates. He left a $20billion fortune. Allen became a leading philanthropist, funding an elephant census in Africa and a pop museum in his home city of Seattle.
ON JANUARY 21 …
IN 1937, Marcel Boulestin became the first Tv chef when he appeared on the BBC’s
Cook’s night Out. IN 1977, u.S. President Jimmy Carter pardoned hundreds of thousands of men who evaded the draft in the vietnam War.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Mullion (c 1560s) A) A vertical bar between the lights of a window. B) A blockhead. C) An urchin.
Answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED Eat the bread of idleness: Meaning to eat food that one has not worked for; it’s from the biblical Proverbs in which a virtuous woman is described thus: ‘She looketh well to the ways of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness.’
QUOTE FOR TODAY
As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.
Hippocrates, Greek physician (460-370BC)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY did the golfer wear two pairs of pants? In case he got a hole in one. Guess The Definition answer: A Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD