ON THIS DAY
July 25, 2024
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
JULY 25, 1967
THE Beatles stay No.1 in the New Musical Express chart with All You Need Is Love. Scott McKenzie is No.2 with San Francisco, and Vikki Carr’s It Must Be Him is third.
JULY 25, 1992
JOHN SMITH put five women in his new-look Shadow Cabinet last night, in a strategy is to win back the millions of women voters the party has lost through macho and chauvinistic politics. Margaret Beckett, Harriet Harman, Ann Taylor, Ann Clwyd and Mo Mowlam fill the slots.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
MATT LEBLANC, 57. The U.S. actor shot to fame as Joey Tribbiani in sitcom Friends and says: ‘I’m proud of him, not ashamed. He changed my life. I’m not the kind of guy to do Hamlet at the Globe theatre. It just doesn’t sound like fun to me.’ LOUISE BROwN, 46. The world’s first ‘test-tube baby’, who was born in Oldham General Hospital in 1978, said she doesn’t mind the phrase, ‘but I prefer IVF, since there weren’t any test tubes involved’. The jar, or ‘desiccator’, involved is on display at the Science Museum in London.
BORN ON THIS DAY
ANNIE ROSS (19302020). Born in London, she was a singer with the vocalese jazz trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. She was also an actress, who dubbed Britt Ekland’s voice in The wicker Man, played Judy Garland’s sister in Presenting Lily Mars and starred in Superman III.
ARTHUR BALFOUR (1848-1930). The Conservative PM, from 1902 to 1905, was the first inhabitant of No 10 to bring a motor car to Downing Street. He is best remembered for his time as foreign secretary when, in 1917, he authored the Balfour Declaration, which supported ‘the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people’.
ON JULY 25…
IN 1603, James I, the first Stuart king of England, was crowned.
IN 1985, U.S. actor Rock Hudson announced he had Aids. He died three months later.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION Cabotinage (coined 1894)
A) Act of whipping a limb with nettles to ease pain. B) Strides when hiking. C) Ham acting. answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Sour grapes: describes someone who says something is worthless because they want it but can’t have it; from Aesop’s Fables, in which a fox longingly looks up at a cluster of grapes which it fails to reach and covers its disappointment by saying: ‘Hang ’em, they are as sour as crabs.’
QUOTE FOR TODAY
youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli, former prime minister (1804-1881)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT do bunny rabbits drive? Hutchbacks. Guess The Definition answer: C.