ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
JUNE 23, 1911
WITh every auspicious circumstance, the great solemnity to which the nation and the Empire have so eagerly been looking forward was accomplished yesterday in Westminster Abbey when the crown of St Edward was placed on the head of George V. JUNE 23, 1979
JEREMY Thorpe won the 12 most vital votes of his life — those of the jury which found him not guilty of conspiracy and incitement to murder. The verdict came 52 hours after the jury retired, 31 days after the trial began — 18 years after Thorpe first met a male model called Norman Scott.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
JANE GARVEY, 58. The Liverpool-born BBC Radio 4 broadcaster quit as Woman’s hour presenter in 2020 after 13 years as her ‘indignation bank was depleted’. She was the first voice on BBC Radio 5 Live when it launched in 1994 and says one of her worst interviews was with Blondie’s Debbie harry: ‘I couldn’t speak, I was agog.’
FRANCES McDORMAND, 65. The American, born Cynthia Smith, has won the Best Actress Oscar three times — for Fargo, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Nomadland. When fans asked for selfies, she said: ‘I’m not an actor because I want my picture taken. I’m an actor because I want to be part of the human exchange.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
BOB FOSSE (1927-1987). The Chicagoborn actor, dancer and choreographer directed the original stage production of musical Chicago and 1972 film Cabaret. he was the first person to win an Oscar, Emmy and Tony in a year — in 1973. As the only boy in his ballet class, he said: ‘I got whistled at a lot. But I beat up a couple of the bigger whistlers and the rest sort of tapered off.’
ADAM FAITh (1940-2003). The pop star, born Terence Nelhams Wright in West London, had No 1 hits with What Do You Want? and Poor Me and took the lead role in ITV’s Budgie. he later wrote a financial column for the Mail. Faith helped establish digital TV’s The Money Channel, but it lost him £32 million and he was declared bankrupt the year before his fatal heart attack.
ON JUNE 23…
IN 1931, Wiley Post and harold Gatty began the first round-the-world flight in a single-engined plane from New York. IN 1995, U.S. virologist Jonas Salk died, aged 80. he had developed one of the first successful polio vaccines.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Rime (c.900) A) A small cavity in a rock. B) Animal manure. C) Frost formed from cloud.
Answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED
The brass ring: Meaning success as a reward for ambition or working hard; it refers to the free ride on a merry-go-round given to whoever succeeds in hooking a brass ring suspended over the horses.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty. William Shenstone, English poet (1714-1763)
JOKE OF THE DAY
DID you hear about the couple who fell in love at an orchard? They lived appley ever after. Guess The Definition answer: C.
Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD