ON THIS DAY
September 18, 2024
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
SEPTEMBER 18, 1941
A statue of Mr Churchill now sits on President Roosevelt’s desk, a souvenir to mark the Roosevelt-Churchill sea conference. It is an 8in high plastic statuette, which will soon be on sale in American stores. Mr Churchill stands on a sort of pedestal, smoking a cigar and wearing a top hat. SEPTEMBER 18, 2003
TV CHEF Jamie Oliver has been left so exhausted by his attempts to turn 15 jobless youngsters into chefs in his television series that he is to take a year away from the medium. Getting his £1.2 million restaurant 15 in London off the ground with the young hopefuls has left him ‘burnt out’.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
TARA FITZGERALD,
57. The Sussex-born actress starred in the
1996 film Brassed Off, BBC’s Waking The
Dead and Game Of Thrones. Because of her trademark husky voice she is often ‘mistaken for a man when on the phone’, she says. FRANKIE AVALON, 84. The US actor and singer performed Beauty School Dropout as the Teen Angel in Grease – a role he initially rejected. Although he appeared in 30 movies, he said ‘of all the films, Grease is the only one that has been outstanding in this world’.
BORN ON THIS DAY
BILLY ROBINSON (1938-2014). The wrestler from Manchester was European Open Wrestling Champion in 1958, before becoming a trainer in the US and a popular wrestler in Japan in the 1970s, where he inspired the manga character Robin Mask. In later life he worked as a security guard at a Las Vegas casino. JOHN MCAFEE (19452021). The Gloucestershire-born tech millionaire was found dead in a prison cell after a Spanish court agreed to extradite him to the
US on tax evasion charges. He was also wanted in Belize in connection with a murder.
ON SEPTEMBER 18…
IN 1851, the first issue of The New York Times was published.
IN 1879, the Blackpool Illuminations were switched on for the first time.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION Yepsen (coined 14th century)
A) Measure held in two hands. B) Joyful shout. C) Total agreement. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Moot point: Meaning an issue open to debate; in medieval times ‘mot’ or ‘mote’ was an assembly (from the same source as ‘meet’); therefore something mooted was something put up for a general discussion.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.
Michelle Obama, former US First Lady
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY did the darts player bring a
ladder to the pub? Because he heard the drinks were on the house. Guess The Definition answer: A.