ON THIS DAY
May 13, 2022
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE May 13, 1982
A MAN in priest’s clothing tried to lunge at the Pope with a bayonet in Portugal last night. Shouting anti-Papal slogans, he was tackled by guards and led away. It was almost exactly a year since the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul in Rome.
May 13, 1994
HoPELESSLy creased, stained and with one of its glitzy safety pins dangling, yesterday the Dress looked the worse for wear. But then, the night before . . . the black Versace gown worn by Elizabeth Hurley (right) at the London premiere of partner Hugh Grant’s film Four Weddings And A Funeral overshadowed everyone.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
RICHARD MADELEy, 66. The Essex-born broadcaster found fame on This Morning as one half of Richard and Judy. He now presents Good Morning Britain without his wife. He says: ‘I like being on telly, Judy didn’t.’ Madeley once told former U.S. president Bill Clinton he empathised with his impeachment due to his own arrest for forgetting to pay for items including champagne at Tesco, adding: ‘Unlike you, I knew I was innocent.’
FRANCES BARBER, 64. The actress from Wolverhampton starred in Doctor Who and Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool. When then-boyfriend, actor Neil Pearson, tried to drive off after a row, she lay naked on the road to stop him. ‘Unfortunately, it was a cul-de-sac and all the neighbours were looking.’ When she tore a ligament in each knee after accidents on her bike and a horse, her friend Ian McKellen became her live-in carer.
BORN ON THIS DAY
RITCHIE VALENS (1941-1959). The American guitarist had hits with Donna and La Bamba. He was 17, and being hailed as ‘the next Elvis Presley’, when he died in the plane crash that also killed Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper, on what is known as The Day The Music Died (due to Don McLean song American Pie).
CARoLyN FRANKLIN (1944-1988). The U.S. singer-songwriter was eclipsed by her sister, ‘Queen of Soul’ Aretha Franklin — for whom she composed hits Angel and Ain’t No Way. She arranged Take Another Little Piece of My Heart for another sister, Erma. She said of Aretha: ‘People won’t let me out of her shadow.’ Later, she studied law, but developed breast cancer. Her degree was awarded on her deathbed.
ON MAY 13 . . .
IN 1989, Kylie Minogue (right) was enjoying her second UK solo No 1, Hand on your Heart. IN 2002, BBC 1 spy drama Spooks first aired — making stars of Matthew Macfadyen, Keeley Hawes and David oyelowo.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Scabrous (coined c 1580) A) Wild and unmanageable. B) Critical. C) Indecent, scandalous, risque, obscene.
answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED A beam in your eye:
meaning a fault that is greater in yourself than in the person with whom you are finding fault. The phrase comes from Matthew’s Gospel.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. Anatole France, French novelist (1844-1924)
JOKE OF THE DAY
A BooK just fell on my head. I’ve only got my shelf to blame. Guess The Definition answer: C.
Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD