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Today's The Day - 1st August

1st August 2006

National Day of Switzerland.

Religious events today...
Feast day of Saints Pistis, Elpis, and Agape (Faith, Hope, and Charity)
St Peter Julian Eymard,
St Ethelwold of Winchester,
St Almedha or Aled,
St Alphonse Liguori,
and The Holy Macabees.
History Test for August 1st
For which country did pop stars George Harrison, Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan perform a charitable concert today in 1971? -Bangladesh
Despite having 12 lines of dialogue, who was nominated for an Oscar for his role in `Shane', released today in 1953? -Jack Palance
Born today in l0 BC, which stuttering Roman emperor was the subject of a TV drama series? -Claudius
Born today in 1936, which French fashion designer popularised trousers for women? -Yves Saint Laurent
Which cosmic-sounding chocolate bar went on sale for the first time today in 1932? -The Mars bar
Events today...
1137 Death of Louis VI, King of France
1498 Christopher Columbus reached the American mainland and named it Santa Isla, believing it to be an island.
1714 In London, Queen Anne died at the age of 49; she had become so stout that her coffin was almost square. George Louis, Elector of Hanover, was proclaimed King George I of Great Britain.
1716 The oldest sporting contest, the Doggett's Coat and Badge, for Thames scullers, was first held. It was the idea of Irish comedian Thomas Doggett.
1740 'Rule Britannia' was sung for the first time, at the Prince of Wales' residence at Cliveden.
1774 English chemist Joseph Priestley identified oxygen, which he called `a new species of air'.
1778 The first savings bank was opened, in Hamburg, Germany.
1793 The kilogram was introduced in France as the first metric weight.
1798 The English under Nelson destroyed the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile, in Aboukir Bay.
1831 New London Bridge was opened by King William IV and Queen Adelaide. It lasted 140 years and was then sold and rebuilt in Arizona.
1834 Death of Robert Morrison, English missionary and translator.
1834 Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire.
1873 The Clay Street Hill Railroad, San Francisco's cable car system, began running.
1912 In the UK, the first Air Mail service began between London and Paris.
1921 In the UK, thousands of people risked the rain to travel to the coast and the countryside on the fiftieth anniversary of the first Bank Holiday.
1928 In the UK, Morris Motors launch their latest model, the Morris Minor.
1932 The first English Mars Bars went on sale, made at Slough, Berkshire.
1932 The first Mars bar, made in Slough, went on sale.
1936 In Germany, Adolf Hitler opened the XIth Olympics in Berlin, the last for 12 years.
1946 In London, British European Airways was created.
1960 The first European Cup Winners' Cup football match was played between ASK Vorwaerts and Red Star Brno in Berlin.
1963 Death of Theodore Roethke, US poet.
1964 In London, the third James Bond film, `Goldfinger', starring Sean Connery was released. The title song, recorded by Shirley Bassey, was already in the charts.
1969 The first ever pictures of Mars were beamed back to earth by satellite.
1971 TheAnimal WelfareTrust was founded, set up to take in unwanted animals and find new homes for unwanted pets.
1973 Death of Walter Ulbricht, East German politician.
1975 Thirty-five nations, including the USA and the USSR, signed the Helsinki Agreement on cooperation in human rights and other global issues.
1976 In West Germany, world champion Niki Lauda was seriously burned in an accident in the German Grand Prix.
1980 Six days after surprisingly losing to Steve Ovett in the 800 metres final at the Moscow Olympics, Sebastian Coe turned the tables by beating Ovett into third place to win the 1500m gold medal; Jurgen Straub of East Germany took the silver.
1981 MTV debuted in America.
1981 Shakin' Stevens was at No.1 with `Green Door’
1983 According to a survey, women did not like men wearing earrings and make up.
1983 It was announced that in Newton Abbot, Devon, a novice racehorse called Golden Beach abandoned his race and started racing a high speed train.
1984 Britain won it’s first gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics when Malcolm Cooper from Hayling Island, Hampshire, came first in the small-bore three position shooting event.
1984 In Hong Kong, Sir Geoffrey Howe announced a framework of the deal for the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997.
1987 Mike Tyson beat Tony Tucker in the US to become undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.
1987 MTV, Britain's music based satellite television station was launched.
1987 The first advertisement for condoms was shown on British television, with Durex running an ad on the ITV network.
1989 Australia won the fourth Test at Old Trafford to become the first Australian side to regain the Ashes in England since 1934; it was also Australia's 100th win over England.
1989 American lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim was appointed Oxford's first visiting professor of drama and musical theatre in an attempt to revitalise student drama at the university.
1989 Death of John Ogdon, English concert pianist.
1990 The National Museums of Scotland announced that it had £170,000 to pay for 'Lizzie', the oldest known fossil of a reptile, found in Bathgate, West Lothian, where it had lain for 340 million years. The fossil would remain in Scotland after a bid from the Stuttgart natural history museum.
1992 A wife in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, gave her husband a suit of armour for his 32nd birthday because she said he was "her shining knight".
1992 It was reported that a snake handler who had set up a group to help people with their fears of reptiles was killed by his Egyptian cobra.
1993 A British Rail announcer bungled by telling three hundred people that their mystery trip from Hull would end at Knaresborough.
1993 Bognor and Eastbourne announced that they were to stage rival birdman contests to see how far contestants could fly unpowered.
1993 Death of Alfred Manessier, French painter.
1993 In the US, for the first time, NASA postponed a mission by a space shuttle, `Discovery', because of a meteor shower.
1994 In the US, Lisa Marie Presley admitted that rumours of her marriage to Michael Jackson were true and that she would dedicate her life to being his wife.
1994 According to figures released by Radio Joint Audience Research Ltd (RAJAR), 2.6 million people 'left' the BBC's radio services for commercial stations. While Radio 1 remained the most popular national station, but its audience was falling by 73,000 a week.
1995 During the heatwave, viewers were tuning into some unusual programmes. A Lowestoft viewer was watching 'Neighbours' and quiz shows in German. 'The pictures are clear-far better than the BBC' she said. South Coast viewers had been receiving Russian programmes.
1995 Drivers were urged by the Government to leave their cars at home as record temperatures sent air pollution levels over health limits. The RAC said: 'There is absolutely no point in asking motorists to leave their cars at home if the alternative transport isn't there.'
1995 A 36-year-old man was charged with the murder of two boys, aged 12 and 13, who were stabbed while out fishing in Wirral.
1995 A persistent shoplifter was to have a telephone installed at his home because the electronic tagging equipment he was fitted with would not work without one.
1995 President Yeltsin began his fourth week away from office due to illness.
1995 In Argentina, the pilot of an Aerolineas Argentinas jet Jorge Polanco, reported a UFO that flew into the path of his plane before cruising alongside it.
1997 new Labour peers included crime-writer Ruth Rendell, barrister Helena Kennedy and film-maker David Puttnam
1998 Czech President Vaclav Havel was recovering according to plan, five days after abdominal surgery to restore his digestive tract. According to the official report, he was still on respirator and was being fed intravenously and doctors declined to predict when Havel would be fit enough to resume his duties.
2003 Saddam Hussein's eldest daughter accused his aides of "betraying" the deposed Iraqi leader, in a TV interview.
2003 Belgium's Senate backed a new version of a war crimes law which had led to cases being filed against world leaders.
2003 French actress Marie Trintignant dies after spending days in a coma. Her boyfriend was held in custody.
2003 TV host John Leslie, cleared of two sex assault charges, considered libel action as he discussed a new talk show with Sky TV.
2003 Graeme Smith bettered the entire England batting line-up as South Africa took a lead of 239 at Lord's.
2003 Spurs striker Steffen Iversen joined Wolves on a one-year contract.
2003 Juan Sebastian Veron's Man Utd team-mates pleaded with him not to join Chelsea.
2004 A huge fire in a shopping centre on the outskirts of the Paraguayan capital, Asuncion, killed more than 100.
2004 Trading nations gave a broad welcome to a compromise agreement designed to liberalise global trade.
2004 Mark Palios quit as chief executive of the Football Association after more claims in the 'Svengate' affair.
2004 NHS hospitals were warning they faced problems trying to meet a new limit on junior doctors' hours which was coming into force.
2004 An explosion injured at least 18 people in an area of the Czech capital popular with tourists.
2004 The theme tune to the new Thunderbirds film, by pop group Busted, roared straight to the number one spot.
2004 Veteran duo Simon and Garfunkel played to a crowd of 600,000 people at a free concert in Rome.
2004 A Thin Lizzy LP from 1978 topped a magazine poll to find readers' favourite live rock album of all time.
2004 Ashley Giles spun England to victory as they beat West Indies by 256 runs to retain the Wisden Trophy.
2004 England's Karen Stupples carded a final-round eight-under-par 64 to win the British Women's Open.
2005 King Fahd, Saudi Arabia's ruler since 1982, died and was succeeded by Crown Prince Abdullah.
2005 UK record companies took their first court action against five people accused of illegally sharing music online.
2005 New Doctor Who star David Tennant said the role was "daunting" as filming for a new series began in Cardiff.
2005 Sir Sean Connery said he did not want to be in any more movies because he was fed up with Hollywood 'idiots'.

BIRTHDAYS (for 01 August 2006)
Claudius, 2015 (born 01 August 10BC)
Roman emperor (AD 41-54) who extended Roman rule in North Africa and made Britain a province.
Jean Baptiste de Lamarck, 262 (born 01 August 1744)
French zoologist
Francis Scott Key, 227 (born 01 August 1779)
"Star-Spangled Banner" composer.
Richard Henry Dana, 191 (born 01 August 1815)
US novelist
Herman Melville, 187 (born 01 August 1819)
American novelist, born in New York, who joined a whaling ship in search of adventure. He wrote 'Moby Dick', regarded as one of the great classic sea stories and 'Billy Budd' which was the subject of an opera by Benjamin Britten in 1950
Jack Kramer, 85 (born 01 August 1921)
US tennis champion
Frank Hauser, 84 (born 01 August 1922)
Theatrical director
Gwyn Ward Thomas, 83 (born 01 August 1923)
Chairman, Yorkshire-Tyne Tees TV Holdings
Lionel Bart, 76 (born 01 August 1930)
English composer who wrote several songs for Tommy Steele including 'Little White Bull' and songs for the musicals 'Lock Up Your Daughters' and 'Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be'. He also wrote `Living Doll' for Cliff Richard and then launched one of the mo
Ramblin Jack Elliott, 75 (born 01 August 1931)
Legendary folk performer
Dom de Luise, 73 (born 01 August 1933)
Rounded American comedy actor whose films include 'Blazing Saddles', 'The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas', `Robin Hood : Men in Tights' and 'The Silence of the Hams'!
Mike Campbell-Lamerton, 73 (born 01 August 1933)
(rugby union) -- Former Scotland and British Lions captain
Yves Saint-Laurent, 70 (born 01 August 1936)
French coutourier and designer who was originally employed by Christian Dior. He opened his own fashion house in 1962
Jerry Garcia, 64 (born 01 August 1942)
The Grateful Dead
Andy Roxburgh, 63 (born 01 August 1943)
football coach
Steve Martin, 61 (born 01 August 1945)
American actor and comedian married to actress Victoria Tennant. Film credits include `Roxanne' (1987) and `Father of the Bride II' (1996).
Robert Cray, 53 (born 01 August 1953)
Modern blues musician
Joe Elliot, 47 (born 01 August 1959)
Def Leppard
Mike Watkinson, 45 (born 01 August 1961)
(cricket) -- Lancashire and England off-spinner
Brad Faxon, 45 (born 01 August 1961)
(golf) -- American player
Mark Wright, 43 (born 01 August 1963)
England and Liverpool footballer who narrowly missed playing in Euro 96 through injury.
Nick Christian Sayer, 42 (born 01 August 1964)
English songwriter, guitarist and co-founder of Transvision Vamp. Hits include `I Want Your Love' from 1988 and `Baby I Don't Care' both from 1989.
Graham Thorpe, 37 (born 01 August 1969)
(cricket) -- Surrey and England batsman
Robert Beck, 36 (born 01 August 1970)
English actor whose TV credits include `Peter Harrison' in `Brookside' (1992-93). Voted `Sexiest English Star' by Playgirl readers in 1993.
David James, 36 (born 01 August 1970)
footballer
Mark Petchey, 36 (born 01 August 1970)
tennis player

The egg that will tell you when it's perfectly boiled!

It could be an answer to the prayers of people who, quite literally, cannot boil an egg. Or at the very least, a godsend for a new generation of students struggling with the most basic of culinary tasks.

Revolutionary "self-timing" eggs designed to overcome the perennial problem of how to avoid runny whites and overcooked yolks will appear on supermarket shelves in the coming months.

The eggs are marked with logos in "thermochromic" invisible ink, which turns dark when it reaches a certain temperature.

Inks have been created to appear after three minutes to indicate a soft-boiled egg, after four minutes for medium and after seven minutes for a hard-boiled egg.

Shoppers will be able to buy the eggs of their choice in cartons marked "soft", "medium" or "hard".

The project was launched by the quality assurance scheme Lion Quality Eggs in response to thousands of people asking how to boil eggs properly.

Gilly Beaumont, of B&H Colour Change, which developed the logos, said: "We are still perfecting the technology, but we are very excited at the prospect of sorting a problem that has wound people up at breakfast time for decades."

The egg logos are the latest application of heat-sensitive technology, which is likely to transform future kitchen landscapes. Other inventions include oven gloves that not only have temperature sensors built in, but also "talk", with phrases such as "The food should be checked in 40 minutes".

Scientists have also been exploring the use of thermochromic technology on fire doors that change colour when hot, football jerseys that can tell when a player is overheating and on road signs that change colour to indicate icy road conditions.

Nestlé Rowntree has experimented with thermochromic logos on its chocolate wrappers in an attempt to cater for consumers who hate a soft KitKat bar. The label is printed directly on to the wrapper.

Once placed in the fridge, the bar cools down while a note appears indicating that the chocolate is ready to be eaten.

Such materials have already been used for some time on a range of products, such as for chill indicators on beer bottles and as safety features on baby spoons.

Meanwhile, a student has come up with a device designed to solve the morning-time conundrum of how best to soft-boil an egg.

The PerfEGG device keeps water temperature constant for 8.5 minutes without reaching boiling point, which aims to let the egg white coagulate but keep the yolk runny, regardless of egg size.

The timing of the device can also be adjusted for hard-boiled eggs.

Brunel University design student Ben Harris, 22, from Dublin, is in talks about launching his gadget.

He said: "I love soft-boiled eggs with toasted soldiers but I get so frustrated if I get the timing wrong and the egg is too hard to dip my soldiers in."

What Are The Chances Of Being Hit By A Meteorite?

In the true spirit of the British bureaucrat, scientists at a top secret atomic energy research centre were ordered to calculate the precise chances of being killed by a meteorite while out for a stroll.

In 1980, while debates on nuclear safety raged as fiercely as they do today, Whitehall did not consider it good enough to be able to say that there was more chance of being killed in a car crash or any form of natural disaster than falling foul of a Chernobyl-style disaster.

The Health and Safety Executive decided that it was necessary to calculate the exact chances of a range of deaths that included more obvious ones, such as being struck by lightning or hit by a runaway train.

But they also thought that, to place the dangers of nuclear reactor accidents in context, ministers must also be able to refer to the likelihood of the heavens falling on your head.

So the Safety and Reliability Directorate of the UK Atomic Energy Authority came up with an equation. It showed that, statistically speaking, some poor Brit would be squashed by a heavenly body every 7,000 years or so.

Once in every million years, we should expect a meteorite strike that would kill 500 people, although that would presumably depend on whether the chunk of celestial debris flattened Oxford Street at lunchtime or Chewton Mendip on a Sunday morning.

Reassuringly, in a paper released at the National Archives in Kew, the scientists also produced a table relating the size of meteorites, their frequency and their "lethal area - the area within which all life is extinguished by the average meteorite".

This pointed out that eight meteorites of up to 25lb penetrated the atmosphere each year and if they landed would have a lethal area of the size of an average city back garden.

But every 80 years or so a meteorite weighing up to a ton breaks through with a killing zone of 133 acres.

Then, each 100 million years, a meteorite the size of a modest mountain will hit the earth with a lethal area of, roughly speaking, England.

So, heads down.

But those are just the statistics. The historical record makes rather more reassuring reading. The only person known to have been hit by a meteorite was a woman in Sylacauga, Alabama, in 1954. The 8lb rock hurt her shoulder after crashing through the roof of her house.

All in all, it is probably safest to agree with the atomic scientists from Risley who concluded that "these data are largely conjectural [and] it is therefore not possible to determine the reliability of the results presented herein".

Which sounds a lot like: "Search me!"

S&NUK slams cheap supermarket booze

Brewer Scottish & Newcastle UK (S&NUK) has slammed Britain’s supermarket chains for selling its beers on the cheap.

In a submission to the Competition Commission, which is looking into claims that the big grocery retailers are squeezing out smaller, independent players, S&NUK said it “viewed with concern the willingness of the major multiples to invest in relatively cheap beer and cider prices to drive ‘footfall’ within this sector”.

The group said the sale of alcoholic drinks at low cost – even below cost – was not consistent with the promotion of responsible drinking.

“There is now firm anecdotal evidence that drinkers are consuming cheap alcohol at home prior to crossing over into the on-trade for a night out and then topping up at pubs and bars,” S&NUK’s submission went on.

“Furthermore, with the advent of public place smoking bans now in Scotland and due in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, we expect the demand for this kind of consumption to increase.”

The emphasis on low price to drive customers into the store “was an unwelcome feature of the grocery market”, it concluded.

Sainsbury’s and Tesco were unavailable for comment.

The deadline for final submissions to the Competition Commission’s inquiry is September 2007, with the report published the following month.

Quiz-a-Day

1 On TV, who worked in "The Rag Trade" and "On The Buses"?
2 Which musical instrument has dampers, hammers and strings?
3 "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" was which singer's first No 1?
4 Which fish is smoked and cured and called 'finnan'?
5 Which pear-shaped tropical fruit has given its name to a bathroom suite colouring?
6 The Spanish Riding School is in which country?
7 What was the original name of the line on a ship showing the level to which it
could be loaded?
8 Bouillabaisse is what kind of fish dish?
9 John Ridd is the male lead in which book with a girl's name as its title?
10 Who wrote the music "The Four Seasons"?
11 In which city in 1916 was the Easter Rising?
12 Who wrote the stories about a schoolboy named William Brown?
13 Which King Louis built the palace at Versailles?
14 Sedan, arm and high are all types of what?
15 Who had a horse called Bucephalus?
16 What was the first name of the female singer in The Carpenters?
17 In the USA what does the I stand for in CIA?
18 What was the surname of Frank in "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em"?
19 "Walk upon England's mountains green" is the second line of which rousing
song?
20 What name is given to the Japanese skill of growing miniature trees?

Answers - Highlight Below
1 Reg Varney.
2 Piano.
3 Dusty Springfield.
4 Haddock.
5 Avocado.
6 Austria.
7 Plimsoll Line.
8 Soup.
9 Lorna Doone.
10 Vivaldi.
11 Dublin.
12 Richmal Crompton.
13 XIV.
14 Chair.
15 Alexander the Great.
16 Karen.
17 Intelligence.
18 Spencer.
19 Jerusalem.
20 Bonsai.

Quiztime 310706

1. What’s the maximum cash prize on Noel Edmonds’s game show Deal Or No Deal?
£250,000
2. Lisa Armstrong was the bride, Declan Donnelly was the best-man and guests included Robbie Williams and Cat Deeley, but who was the groom?
Ant McPartlin
3. Which popular fruit takes its name from the Arabic for finger?
Banana - the most popular fruit in the UK
4. What is the subtitle of the second Pirates of the Caribbean film?
Dead Man’s Chest (The first was - The Curse of the Black Pearl)
5. Who’s had most No.1 singles — Blur, Oasis or McFly?
Oasis with eight. Blur have had two and McFly four
6. Which country produces Leerdammer cheese?
Holland
7. Is the current series of Big Brother the fifth, sixth or seventh?
Seventh
8. If you end a mobile phone text message with CWYL what are you saying?
Chat with you later
9. What facial feature is missing from Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa?
Eyebrows
10. What’s the minimum age at which a child can have a part time job in the UK?
14 years old, although local authority by-laws vary
11. One point each - Name the three stars of the new BBC2 celebrity programme “Excuse My French”?
Ron Atkinson, Marcus Brigstock, and Esther Rantzen
12. A club formed by World War II pilots who underwent pioneering plastic surgery is named after which animal?
Guinea Pig
13. Would you find baby’s breath in a health food shop, toy shop, a garden centre or public house?
In a garden centre. It’s a tall flowering plant also known as gypsophila
14. Who is the current Great Britain Rugby League captain?
Paul Sculthorpe
15. What word can be a light two-wheeled carriage or a pop concert?
Gig
16. Experts recently claimed that which word was the first spoken by around 71% of babies throughout the world over the last 50,000 years, as it means father in over 700 languages?
Papa
17. What gadget in our homes uses the Phase Alternating Line format?
Television. It’s a colour TV encoding system
18. The first match recently played at north London’s new Emirates Stadium was testimonial of which Arsenal legend?
Dennis Bergkamp
19. True or False - Halle Berry’s stunt double in the ‘Catwoman’ film was a man?
True
20. Quiztime Survey Question - Top Answer Required - Name a well-known singer whose name contains a geographical feature?
Glen Campbell, Gracie Fields, Vince Hill, Billy Ocean, Garth Brooks, Greg Lake, Kym Marsh

21. Which Year - In Rome, Pope Paul VI died of a heart attack, England cricketer David Gower scored his first Test century, Kenya's President Jomo Kenyatta died, Jack Nicklaus won the British Open golf title for the third time, The first test-tube baby in Britain was born - Louise Joy Brown, at Oldham General Hospital, Lancashire and Martina Navratilova won the women's singles title at Wimbledon for the first time?
1978
22. How many great-great grandparents can you have?
Sixteen
23. Which BT service recently celebrated it’s 70th birthday?
Speaking Clock
24. What kind of missile takes its name from Latin meaning “numbness”?
Torpedo
25. In Greek mythology, when Argus was killed, his 100 eyes were transplanted into the tail feathers of which bird?
Peacock
26. The skin infection tinea pedis is more commonly known as what?
Athlete’s foot
27. In the British Army, which is Scotland’s only cavalry regiment?
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
28. If someone gave you barm brack, what would you do with it - eat it, plant it or smoke it?
Eat it, it’s a kind of Irish bread
29. Which board game was rejected by Waddingtons when it was first designed, because they claimed it had 52 fundamental playing errors?
Monopoly
30. What type of Kryptonite takes away Superman’s powers temporarily?
Green
31. The name of which Japanese car and motorbike manufacturer means “bell tree” in Japanese?
Suzuki
32. Which literary monster was created when the author was inspired by a nightmare after eating crabs?
Dracula
33. Specifically, in which sport might you use nymphs?
Fly Fishing
34. What is Britain’s most visited tourist attraction?
Blackpool Pleasure Beach, which draws over six million visitors each year
35. If a golfer returns a score for any hole lower than he really scored he’s disqualified. What happens if he returns a score higher than the proper score?
The higher score stands
36. In France what would you buy in a charcuterie?
Cooked Meats
37. What’s the total number of spots on the three lowest dominoes?
Three. One and blank, one and one and double blank
38. DAB radios are the latest thing. What do the initials stand for?
Digital Audio Broadcasting
39. What is the tallest variety of grass in the world?
Bamboo, which can reach 130 feet and more
40. Which girl always has her name displayed on a banner?
Anne - B'ANNE'R

Tiebreaker - If you put all the Skoda cars made in 2004 end to end, how many miles would they stretch?
1,750

Today's The Day - 31st July

31st July 2006

Religious Events today...
Feast day of St Ignatius of Loyola,
St Justin de Jacobis,
St Neot,
and St Helen of Skovde.

History Test for July 31st
Today in 1963, politician Tony Benn disclaimed his peerage for life. What was his title? -Viscount Stansgate
Which product was banned from TV advertising today in 1965? -Cigarettes
Name the founder of the Jesuits, who died today in 1556. -St. Ignatius Loyola
Today in 1910, who became the first criminal to be caught by wireless telegraphy? -Dr Crippen
Former Australian tennis champion, Evonne Cawley, was born today in 1951. What was her maiden name? -Goolagong

Events today...
1498 Columbus arrrived at Trinidad on his third voyage.
1556 Death of Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish founder of the Jesuits.
1875 17th US President Andrew Johnson died in Carter County, Tennessee.
1878 Northamptonshire County Cricket Club was founded.
1886 Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt died in Bayreuth, West Germany at the age of 74.
1910 Dr Hawley Crippen, wanted for the murder of his wife, was arrested, along with his mistress Ethel Le Neve who was disguised as a boy, on board the SS Montrose en route from England to Canada. The ship's captain, Henry Kendall, had become suspicious of the two passengers and radioed London, the first time radio had been used to apprehend a criminal.
1919 The Weimar Republic was established in post-war Germany.
1942 Oxfam was founded, with the first meeting under its original name, the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, at the Friend's Meeting House in Oxford The charity was formed to help the growing numbers of European refugees.
1943 Death of Hedley Verity, English cricketer.
1950 Sainsbury's opened Britain's first self-service store, in Croydon.
1954 Mount Godwin-Austin (K2) in the Himalayas was first climbed by an Italian expedition, led by Ardito Desio.
1961 Harold Macmillan announced that Britain was to apply to join the Common Market.
1964 The first ever close up pictures of the moon were returned to earth by the US Ranger 7.
1964 US country singer Jim Reeves was killed in an air crash.
1965 Cigarette advertising on British television was banned.
1971 US astronauts David Scott and James Irwin entered their Lunar Roving Vehicle and went for a ride on the moon.
1983 During the record breaking heatwave there was a shortage of Heineken beer.
1983 It was announced that Stafford County Council had banned all hunting on its land.
1984 15-year-old swimmer Sarah Hardcastle from Southend won a silver medal in the 400 metres freestyle at the Los Angeles Olympics. She also set a British record time of 4minutes 10.27seconds.
1984 According to the Minister of State for Transport Lynda Chalker, almost 350 of Britain's concrete road bridges were suffering from a form of structural deterioration that could lead to collapse.
1984 Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber received an apology for libel over an article in the Daily Mail which attacked his professionalism as a musical producer.
1984 In New Zealand a newly born baby was accidentally thrown out with dirty linen at a hospital. After a frantic search nurses found the child alive and unhurt in a linen bag.
1988 The British Medical Association asked for guidelines on the use of animal organs for transplants.
1989 London's last private lending library closed after suffering from financial difficulties. The library which was situated in Harrod's basement had seven hundred members.
1989 Scientists who were investigating ninety eight mystery circles on two hilltops in Llanthony, near Abergavenny, Gwent, discovered that they had been mowed by a local farmer to encourage more grouse to settle.
1991 At a superpower summit in Moscow, Presidents Bush and Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), and announced that they would be co-sponsoring a Middle East peace conference.
1992 Death of Leonard Cheshire, British pilot and philanthropist.
1994 Anne Shelton, died at her home in Herstmonceaux, East Sussex, aged 70. She began her career at 17 when she joined the Ambrose band and became one of the forces favourite singers during the war. Her "Lilli Marlene" sold a million and was used for propaganda.
1995 A succession of pitch invasions by streakers during the fourth Test match at Old Trafford prompted the chief executive of Lancashire Cricket Club to demand for a law saying invading a cricket pitch should be an offence. There had been nine 'streaks' during the Test match.
1995 For the second day in succession, hundreds of Britain's top yachtsmen were left stranded with no wind to race at Cowes.
1995 A balloonist who landed his balloon in an empty grass field near Chippenham, was quickly surrounded by armed police wielding Heckler & Koch rapid fire carbines. The field was part of Tom King's estate. Mr King was a former Northern Ireland Secretary and Defence Secretary and has permanent armed protection.
1995 A researcher from Leeds University said there was no clear link between screen violence and aggressive behaviour. He said 'the causes of violence and crime seem much more likely to be found in poverty, unemployment, homelessness, abuse, frustration, personality traits and psychological background rather than in TV programmes'.
1997 Around 20 people died as a result of a landslide at the Australian skiing resort town of Thredbo.
1998 The Government announced plans for a total Landmine ban.
1998 Wish You Were Here presenter Judith Chalmers let slip her secret for trouble-free holiday packing -- don't bother with knickers. The veteran holiday presenter shuns undies because they ruin the line of her clothes, she explained on Channel 4 chat show "So Graham Norton". She told comedian that she was once told by the wardrobe department that it was a shame to wear pants under things."
2003 The two daughters of Sadam Hussein, former Iraqi leader, arrived in Jordan as the US said it would pay $30m to an Iraqi informant.
2003 The Roman Catholic Church launched a global campaign to stop the spread of legislation permitting same-sex marriages.
2003 Russia's federal authorities removed top Moscow officials after accusing them of doing nothing to stop crime.
2003 TV presenter John Leslie said he had been "to hell and back" as two assault charges against him were dropped.
2003 Two men convicted of murdering a Luton postmaster in 1970 were cleared by Appeal Court judges.
2003 Nicole Kidman won damages over a report that she had an adulterous affair with UK actor Jude Law.
2003 Sam Phillips, the music producer who discovered Elvis Presley, died in Memphis at the age of 80.
2003 Bradley Wiggins won the men's individual pursuit final at the World Track Cycling Championships.
2003 Everton boss David Moyes believed Wayne Rooney could recover from his ankle injury by the start of the season.
2004 Anti-abortion campaigners criticised guidelines which said girls under the age of 16 could have a termination without their parents being informed.
2004 A British scientist who studied the Chernobyl disaster was mysteriously deported from Belarus.
2004 Actor Nicolas Cage tied the knot for the third time - just two months after divorcing Lisa Marie Presley.
2004 Ashley Giles and Marcus Trescothick put England in pole position in the second Test against West Indies.
2004 Manchester United lost 9-8 on penalties to AC Milan in their final Champions World Series match.
2004 Boudewijn Zenden ended his Chelsea career by signing a one-year deal with Middlesbrough.
2005 Torrential rains returned to the Indian city of Mumbai as it tried to recover from floods that killed 900.
2005 Wim Duisenberg, the Dutch banker who oversaw the birth of the euro, was found dead at his house in France.
2005 Author Terry Pratchett complained the status of JK Rowling was being elevated "at the expense of other writers".
2005 Doctor Who was voted the best British fantasy TV show in a survey of 4,000 viewers, beating Red Dwarf.
2005 Kimi Raikkonen won the Hungarian Grand Prix as championship leader Fernando Alonso failed to score points.

BIRTHDAYS (for 31 July 2006)
John Ericsson, 203 (born 31 July 1803)
Swedish-born American inventor who patented one of the first successful screw-propellers
Jean Dubuffet, 105 (born 31 July 1901)
(Deceased) Artist
Roy Milton, 99 (born 31 July 1907)
(Deceased) R&8 great of the 40s and 50s
Professor Milton Friedman, 94 (born 31 July 1912)
American economist, who was awarded the 1976 Nobel prize for economics and was a policy adviser to President Reagan from 1981 to 1988
Curt Gowdy, 87 (born 31 July 1919)
TV sportscaster & outdoorsman.
Peter Nichols, 79 (born 31 July 1927)
English playwright
Kenny Burrell, 75 (born 31 July 1931)
Jazz guitarist
Sir Richard Greenbury, 70 (born 31 July 1936)
The chairman and chief executive of Marks and Spencer
Geraldine Chaplin, 62 (born 31 July 1944)
American actress of 'Dr Zhivago', 'Welcome to LA' and 'White Mischief fame. She is the daughter of the film actor and comedian Charles Chaplin
Jonathan Dimbleby, 62 (born 31 July 1944)
Television presenter and journalist, the son of Richard and brother of David. He was a showjumper before joining the BBC and presents many current affairs programmes including 'On the Record' and 'First Tuesday'. He has written a book on Richard Dimbleby
Bob Welch, 60 (born 31 July 1946)
Fleetwood Mac
Richard Griffiths, 59 (born 31 July 1947)
English stage, screen and TV actor, prabably best known for the TV series 'Pie in the Sky'. He has made many films including 'King Ralph', ' The Naked Gun 2 1/2' and 'A Private Function'
Evonne Cawley, 55 (born 31 July 1951)
(Nee Goolagong) Tennis player
Michael Biehn, 50 (born 31 July 1956)
American character actor, often seen in action movies such as "The Terminator', 'The Abyss' and 'Tombstone'
Norman Cook, 43 (born 31 July 1963)
Former Housemartin, who started Beats International, who had a big hit in 1990 with 'Dub Be Good To Me'. He disbanded Beats International and put together a new band, Freak Power

GUESS THE YEAR
Gary Glitter and the Glittermen (later called the Glitter Band) gave their first concert in Wiltshire.
Bobby Fischer became the first American world chess champion. The temperamental 29-year-old boy wonder from Brooklyn finally triumphed over defending champion Boris Spassky of the USSR after a marathon two-month struggle, which also established Fischer as the one of the world's unreasonable people. Fischer, who was US champion at 14 and an international grandmaster at 15, sailed undefeated through the qualifying matches to face Spassky, and then argued with the champion over petty details for months before agreeing to play. The showdown in Reykjavik in Iceland drew avid media attention - Fischer's constant tantrums made riveting viewing. The two men played in an atmosphere boiling with resentment, yet the chess was brilliant.
Eleven Israeli athletes died when Palestinian terrorists struck at the Munich Olympics. Eight hooded Black September terrorists broke into the Olympic Village and attacked the sleeping Israelis in their dormitories. Two athletes died in a hail of bullets while 18 escaped, and the remaining nine were taken hostage. The Games were stopped and 12,000 police surrounded the village. The terrorists demanded the release of 200 Palestinians held in Israel and safe passage out of Germany. The German leaders agreed and the gang and their hostages were taken to Munich airport. In a tragic blunder police sharpshooters opened fire, and all nine athletes were killed in the ensuing battle, as well as four terrorists and one policeman. Three of the gang were captured and one escaped. The Games continued under a cloud.
Boxer Ken Norton was defeated by Mohammed Ali in a heavyweight match.
Max Fleischer died, aged 89. Animator of Popeye and Superman
Death of American actor William Boyd, internationally famous from 1934 as cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy.
The Waltons television show debuted on American television.
Death of Geoffrey Fisher, former Archbishop of Canterbury.
Seven men were indicted in Washington in connection with the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office building in Washington on June 17. They were charged with burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping. Five of the seven were arrested at the scene, attempting to install secret bugging devices. They were all members of the Republican committee to re-elect president Richard Nixon. The other two men were former White House aides Howard Hunt and Gordon Liddy, members of the same committee. A party spokesman said there was nothing to indicate any others were involved in the plot to bug the Democrat office.
Paul McCartney was arrested after cannabis was found being grown on his farm in Scotland.
Idi Amin gave the 80,000 Asians in Uganda 48 hours to leave the country.
The controversial archaeologist and anthropologist Louis Leakey died in London, aged 69. Leakey will be remembered for the discoveries of the 1,750,000-year-old Zinjanthropus fossil at Olduvai Gorge and the contemporaneous Homo habilis at Lake Natron in Tanzania between 1959 and 1964. Leakey believed that Homo habilis was a human ancestor of man but Zinjanthropus was not. This brought him into conflict with those scholars who classifed Zinjanthropus as an Australopithecine, the fossil widely thought to be most closely related to man, and disputed the existence of a Homo habilis lineage. Leakey's wife, Mary, and their son, Richard, continued his work piecing together the jigsaw of human evolution.

....and we ask you to ....GUESS THE YEAR
1972

Quiz-a-Day

Roach, Rudd, Bream & Tench all belong to which family of fish?
CARP (CYPRINIDAE)
What is the scientific name given to the study of cancer?
ONCOLOGY
Give the pseudonym of J.P.Richardson, a pop singer, who died in a plane crash in 1959? THE
BIG BOPPER
Which group had a hit in 2001, with their version of Blondie's, "The Tide is High"?
ATOMIC KITTEN
What is the more popular name for nitrous oxide?
Laughing Gas
Which film studio produced the Bugs Bunny cartoons?
Warner Brothers
What was the name of the family featured in TV's 'Bread'?
Boswell
Who is acknowledged as the earliest known Greek poet?
Homer
What is the state capital of Montana, USA?
Helena
Name the Dutch dancer shot by the French for spying for the Germans in 1917?
MATA HARI
Which Formula 1 motor racing champion was known as 'The Professor'?
ALAIN PROST
What is an undertaker known as in the United States?
MORTICIAN
What is the name for the health and welfare of old people?
Geriatrics
Which former world champion boxer was known as "The Dark Destroyer"?
Nigel Benn
Widow Twankey is a character in which pantomime?
Aladdin
By what popular name is Mozart's Divertimento in G for strings better known?
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
What is the largest city on the Japanese island of Hokkaido?
Sapporo
What is the county town of Ireland's smallest county, Louth?
Dundalk
Which Prime Minister's horses won the Derby in both years of his Premiership?
Earl of Rosebery (Ladas & Sir Visto, 1894 & 95)
By what popular name is the fourth movement of Handel's harpsichord suite number 5 in E better known?
The Harmonious Blacksmith
What is the name of the largest of the islands in the Bay of Naples?
ISCHIA
Greek mythology, whom did King Midas hire to build the labyrinth, to contain the Minotaur?
DAEDALUS
What type of creature is a Katydid?
A GRASSHOPPER
Who was the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in WWII?
CHESTER NIMITZ
Who was the Philistine "fish-god", whose temple in Gaza, was destroyed by Samson?
DAGON
Which famous test cricketer had a father named Walter, and a brother named Dayle, who also played test cricket?
SIR RICHARD HADLEE
Which battle, near Moscow, in 1812, turned the tide against the army of Napoleon Bonaparte?
BORODINO
Which artefact in the British Museum was painstakingly restored after being smashed by a drunkard in 1845?
THE PORTLAND VASE
What name is given to the short leather strap, attached to the leg of a hawk or falcon?
A JESS

Today's The Day - 30th July

30th July 2006

Religious Events today...
Feast day of St Julitta of Caesarea,
St Tatwin, Archbishop of Canterbury,
Saints Abdon and Sennen,
and St Peter Chrysologus.
History Test for July 30th
Born today in 1818, who wrote the novel 'Wuthering Heights'? -Emily Bronte
Who scored a hat trick in the World Cup Final today in 1966? -Geoff Hurst
Which publishing house was set up today in 1935 marking the start of the paperback revolution? -Penguin
Whose book of 'Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect' was published today in 1786? -Robert Burns
Today in 1936, which dancing duo was named as the top box office attractions by the `Hollywood Reporter'? -Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

Events today...
1718 Death of William Penn English Quaker leader.
1771 English poet Thomas Gray died in London.
1784 Death of Denis Diderot, French encyclopedist.
1793 Toronto (known as York until 1834) was founded by General John Simcoe.
1898 Death of Otto von Bismarck, German politician.
1930 Uruguay beat Argentina by four goals to two in the final of the first World Cup.
1932 The 10th Olympic Games opened in Los Angeles.
1935 Penguin paperbacks went on sale in Britain for the first time. The first title selected for publication was 'Ariel' by Andre Maurois.
1938 The first edition of the Beano went on sale. In September 1995 London comic book specialists, 'Comic Book Auctions', sold a copy of The Beano No.1 for £4200.
1948 The world's first radar station was opened, to assist shipping at the port of Liverpool.
1963 Kim Philby, British intelligence officer from 1940 and Soviet agent from 1933, fled to the USSR.
1965 Figures in the UK showed that ITV's 'Coronation Street’ was the most popular weekly television programme.
1966 Hosts England beat West Germany by four goals to two in the final of the World Cup, after extra time, with goals scored by Martin Peters and a hat-trick for Geoff Hurst. Bobby Moore was the captain of the English side and (Sir) Alf Ramsey was the England manager.
1968 Don Jones, a 17-stone Californian state public defender, was fined for being too fat.
1977 It was announced that colour TV licences were to go up to £21 and black and white up to £9.
1983 Death of Howard Dietz, US lyricist.
1983 Death of Lynn Fontanne, US actress.
1983 The Royal Mint in Llantrisant, South Wales, had lost gold coins worth £10,000.
1984 Belgian businessman Maurice van de Weghe invented a prayer carpet with a compass to show the direction of Mecca.
1984 John Lennon's unpublished 16-page manuscript of poems, prose and drawings was expected to fetch between £10,000 and £12,000 at a Sotheby's rock and roll memorabilia auction.
1987 Former Liberal MP Clement Freud received a knighthood.
1988 It was reported that The Glenfinnan Monument which showed where Bonnie Prince Charlie first raised his standard in 1745 could, after all, be in the wrong place.
1989 It was revealed that the Duke of Edinburgh was disqualified from a Cowes Week race after a collision with another yacht during a race in the Solent. He was at the helm of Yeoman XXVIII which collided with the yacht Amadeus after the start of the Sigma 38 Class race.
1989 Police were investigating dozens of sightings of strange lights in the sky over London and parts of south-east England. Explanations for the phenomenon ranged from UFO's to reflections from a laserdisplay.
1989 Professor Baruch Ehrensburg from Tel Aviv announced that an ancient human bone discovered in northern Israel showed that man could speak 60,000 years ago.
1990 Britain's largest remaining computer company was sold to the Japanese Fujitsu group for £743 million. STC agreed to sell 80% of ICL to the Japanese.
1990 Ian Gow, MP for Eastbourne, and a close friend of Margaret Thatcher, was killed when a 5lb car bomb exploded at his home in East Sussex. His name had been on an IRA "hit list" found at Clapham, South London, and he had been advised on security.
1990 The chairman of the Conservative Party, Kenneth Baker, called Neil Kinnock, the Labour leader, quick-tempered, inexperienced and ill-suited to high office.
1992 A gardener from Colyton, Devon, hoped that a 17ft 6in runner bean which was still growing would win him a national contest.
1992 Three dolphins which had escaped from a display in Florida's Key Largo did free shows in a lagoon off Miami.
1995 Myra Hindley was engaged on writing her memoirs and was planning to give the profits to the charity Save the Children.
1995 A 44-year-old man from Tayside was found lashed to an oil drum in the Tay estuary after spending 17 hours in the water after his boat got into difficulties.
1995 A seal that was sucked into a water tank at Hinkley Point nuclear power station near Bridgewater in Somerset, was removed by the RSPCA. The seal did not wish to go. The tank was full of fish and eels.
1995 Sir Stanley Matthews, the football maestro, kicked off in a friendly for Clevedon Town against Bristol City at the age of 80. Sir Stanley walked off to a standing ovation.
1995 England won their first Test Match victory at Old Trafford since 1981. Dominic Cork took a hat-trick in the first over of a day that ended with the West Indies beaten by six wickets.
1998 A British firm planned to use pig organs in transplant operations.
1998 Japan voted for Foreign Minister Obuchi to be their Prime Minister.
2003 A Eurostar train broke the UK rail speed record by travelling at 208mph during safety tests.
2003 The threat of strikes was averted after a deal is made over a controversial clocking-on system for British Airways workers.
2003 British Superbike champion Steve Hislop died in a helicopter crash in the Scottish Borders.
2003 The Queen attended a musical extravaganza marking the 50th anniversary of her coronation.
2003 Sir Alex Ferguson insisted Man Utd midfielder Juan Sebastian Veron was staying despite Chelsea's renewed interest.
2004 US President George W Bush and his official challenger John Kerry kicked off multi-state tours.
2004 It was announced that Police were to be given new powers to tackle animal rights extremists who use terror tactics against scientists.
2004 A patient won his legal challenge to prevent doctors withdrawing life-prolonging treatment.
2004 An alleged stalker of actress Catherine Zeta Jones missed a court hearing after taking sleeping pills.
2004 Film studio bosses were staying tight-lipped about whether Pierce Brosnan will star in the next James Bond film.
2004 West Indies reached 184-2 after Andrew Flintoff's 167 propelled England to 566-9 declared on day two at Edgbaston.
2004 Liverpool were granted planning permission to build a new 60,000-seater stadium in Stanley Park.
2004 Sven-Goran Eriksson made his first public appearance since the outset of the scandal over his affair with an FA secretary.
2004 Tottenham were set to sign Swedish international defender Erik Edman.
2005 Discovery astronauts were back inside the space shuttle after completing the mission's first spacewalk.
2005 A lightsabre used by Luke Skywalker in Star Wars sold for more than $200,000 (£113,000) at auction.

BIRTHDAYS (for 30 July 2006)
Giorgio Vasari, 495 (born 30 July 1511)
Italian artist and writer
Emily Bronte, 188 (born 30 July 1818)
English author of 'Wuthering Heights'
Viscount Haldane, 150 (born 30 July 1856)
Liberal politician and the founder of the Territorial Army
Henry Ford, 143 (born 30 July 1863)
American car manufacturer
Henry Moore, 108 (born 30 July 1898)
English sculptor born in Castleford, who was a war artist from 1940-1942. His famous 'Madanna and Child' is in St Matthew's Church, Northampton
Richard Johnson, 79 (born 30 July 1927)
British actor of stage and screen whose films include 'Khartourn' and 'Lady Jane'
Peter Bogdanovich, 67 (born 30 July 1939)
Director, producer and screenwriter of 'What's Up Doc' and 'Paper Moon'
Sir Clive Sinclair, 66 (born 30 July 1940)
English inventor of calculators, miniature TVs, computers and battery-powered cars
Paul Anka, 65 (born 30 July 1941)
Composer and singer and the first solo teenager to top the charts
Frances de la Tour, 62 (born 30 July 1944)
British stage and screen actress
Peter Bottomley, 62 (born 30 July 1944)
Conservative politician
Teresa Cahill, 62 (born 30 July 1944)
Opera and concert singer
Arnold Schwartzenegger, 59 (born 30 July 1947)
Austrian-born bodybuilder who became one of the biggest box-office stars of the late 80s and early 90s with films like 'Predator', 'Red Heat' 'The Terminator' and 'True l.ies'
Marc Bolan, 59 (born 30 July 1947)
(Deceased) Glam rock star
Rat Scabies, 49 (born 30 July 1957)
The Dammed
Daley Thompson, 48 (born 30 July 1958)
Olympic gold medal winning decathlete
Kate Bush, 48 (born 30 July 1958)
Singer and songwriter, who had a huge hit in 1978 with 'Wuthering Heights', inspired by Emily Bronte's novel. Kate Bush was, in fact, born exactly 140 years after Emily Bronte. She had further success with 'The Man With the Child In His Eyes'
GUESS THE YEAR
Kim Philby was named by the government as the 'Third Man' in the Burgess and Maclean spy ring.
The BBC announced its decision to scrap the television panel game 'What’s My Line'.
A 50 mph speed limit was introduced in the UK - but ignored by most drivers.
Around 1,000 people were killed when an earthquake struck the Yugoslav city of Skopje.
'Third Man' Kim Philby was granted Soviet citizenship.
Kim Philby, British intelligence officer from 1940 and Soviet agent from 1933, fled to the USSR.
Death of Theodore Roethke, US poet.
The Beatles played The Cavern in their home town, Liverpool, for the last time.
The Test Ban Agreement was signed by the USA, the USSR, and the UK, contracting to test nuclear weapons only underground.
The Great Train Robbery took place at Sears Crossing, Buckinghamshire, when a gang of 15 men, including Ronnie Biggs and Buster Edwards, stole more than £2.6 million.
No.1- The Searchers `Sweets For My Sweet’
Ready Steady Go! was first transmitted by ITV to rival the BBC's Top of the Pops - presenter Cathy McGowan became known as "Queen of the Mods".

....and we ask you to ....GUESS THE YEAR
1963

10 THINGS WE DIDN'T KNOW THIS TIME LAST WEEK

Snippets harvested from the week's news, chopped, sliced and diced for your weekend convenience.

1. It's illegal to fly a national flag without permission from a local council - unless it is flown from a vertical flagpole - meaning thousands of football fans were technically breaking the law during the World Cup by displaying the Cross of St George.

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2. When filming summer scenes in winter, actors suck on ice cubes just before the camera rolls - it cools their mouths so their breath doesn't condense in the cold air.

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3. 99 ice creams have been so-called since the 1930s, when they were more of an ice cream sandwich than a cone.

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4. The Nazis went out of their way to condemn Superman, with Goebbels writing a polemic in April 1940 in Das Schwarze Korps, the SS newspaper.

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5. Boutros Boutros Ghali's mobile phone ringtone is Oh My Darling and When the Saints (as listeners to Radio 4's Today programme unexpectedly heard on Wednesday morning).

6. Gordon Brown was presented with a Ferrari pedal car by the Italian finance minister, revealed the register of ministerial gifts. He paid £190 to keep it.

7. Once body temperature reaches 42C, it starts to cook. The heat causes the proteins in each cell to irreversibly change.

8. The average film running time is now two hours.

9. DR Congo boasts not only copper and gold and diamonds but also most of the world's deposits of a mineral called coltan, which is used in mobile phones.

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10. Tokyo's subway has women-only carriages to protect female commuters from groping.

[Sources, where stories are not linked - 6: The Times, 24 July. 7: Guardian, 26 July. 8: Variety magazine. 10: The Times, 24 July.]

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Quiz-a-Day

1.Which TV program is an anagram of "Embarrassing ego of the Century" ?
Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game
2.Who wrote 2001 ?
Arthur C. Clarke
3.What is the collective noun for a group of foxes ?
A skulk
4.In Monopoly, what is the cost of Marylebone Station ?
200 pounds
5.Which month's name is derived from Julius Caesar ?
July
6.What is Chromophobia the fear of ?
Colours
7.In the phonetic alphabet, what word represents the letter X ?
xray
8.Who ruled England in the period 1837-1901 ?
Victoria
9.What is the national airline of Isreal ?
El Al
10.In which year were all these titles at no.1 ?
'I Got You Babe', 'Dancing In The Street' and 'You'll Never Walk Alone'?
1985
11.Who sang with the Young Ones on their 1986 version of 'Living Doll'?
Cliff Richard, featuring Hank Marvin
12. Whose first British hit was 'Virginia Plain' ?
Roxy Music
13.Which is the largest city in Switzerland ?
Zurich
14.When is your tin anniversary ?
After your tenth year of marriage
15.What century did Christopher Columbus die in?
The 16th
16.What is the sea between Arabia and Africa called?
The Red Sea
17.What river is Cologne on ?
The Rhine
18.Which comedy series featured the characters "Moriarty, Eccles and Bluebottle ?
The Goon Show
19.How many yards is the penalty spot from the football goal line?
Twelve
20.In Scrabble, how many points is the letter M worth ?
3
21.Who had a hit with 'You Sexy Thing' ?
Hot Chocolate
22.Which band wore a 'Badge'?
Cream
23.The Grand Canyon is located in which state ?
Arizona
24.What is the second lightest element?
Helium
25.What is the chemical symbol for Oxygen ?
O
26.After which fictional character was Humphrey, the Downing Street cat, named?
Sir Humphry Appleby (in Yes Minister)
27.Who was British Prime Minister from 1951-1955 ?
WINSTON CHURCHILL
28.Who was Prsident of the USA from 1974-1977 ?
GERALD R. FORD
29.The first manned Lunar landing was by which Apollo ?
11
30.Which record company passed over The Beatles in favour of Brian Poole and the Tremeloes ?
Decca Records
31.What is the capital of Belarus ?
Minsk
32.What number on the Beaufort scale represents a "Light breeze" ?
2
33.What football team has the nickname Shrews ?
Shrewsbury Town
34.Who won the Formula 1 drivers championship in 1993 ?
Alain Prost
35.What soccer team plays at Prenton Park ?
Tranmere Rovers
36.What naval rank is equivalent of Flying Officer in the RAF?
Sub-Lieutenant
37.What period of time is 31,622,400 seconds ?
A leap year
38.Name the song and artist "Long nights crying by the record machine, dreaming of my Chevy and my old blue jeans"?
Crocodile Rock by Elton John
39.Who wrote 'Mein Kampf'?
Adolf Hitler
40.Where did the Bounty mutineers settle ?
Pitcairn Island

Today's The Day - 29th July

29th July 2006

Religious Events today...
Feast day of St Martha,
Saints Beatrice and Simplicius,
Saints Faustinus and Beatrice,
St Felix, antipope,
St William of Saint-Brieuc,
St Lupus of Troyes,
and St Olav, King of Norway.

History Test for July 29th
Name the Beatles' second film, which was premiered today in 1965. -`Help!'
At which venue did Prince Charles marry Lady Diana Spencer today in 1981? -St Paul's Cathedral
Who made his first appearance in `The Beano' today in 1938 with his dog, Gnasher? -Dennis the Menace
What was Sir Francis Drake doing today in 1588 when the Spanish Armada was sighted? -Playing bowls
Born today in 1801 which English publisher gave his name to the first national railway timetable? -George Bradshaw

Events today...
1588 Sir Francis Drake, while playing bowls on Plymouth Hoe, was informed that the Spanish Armada had been sighted - he proceeded to finish his game before putting to sea with the British Fleet. The Armada was defeated by the English fleet under Howard and Drake off Plymouth.
1856 German composer Robert Schumann died in an asylum near Bonn.
1890 Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh died insane, having shot himself in the chest two days earlier.
1900 King Umberto I of Italy was assassinated by an anarchist and succeeded by Victor Emmanuel.
1907 The Boy Scouts were officially formed by Robert Baden-Powell.
1948 Bread rationing came to an end in Britain.
1948 The 14th Olympic Games opened in London - the first in 12 years, due to World War II.
1949 First broadcast of ‘A Book At Bedtime’.
1949 The first regular televised weather forecast was broadcast by the BBC.
1958 NASA, the National Aeronautical and Space Administration, was created.
1963 'Third Man' Kim Philby was granted Soviet citizenship.
1964 The first Brook Advisory Clinic was opened in the UK, to give family planning advice to unmarried couples.
1968 Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Church's traditional teaching on (and condemnation of) birth control.
1970 Death of John Barbirolli, English conductor.
1974 Mama Cass of The Mamas and the Papas died at the age of 32, after choking on a sandwich at the London home of singer Harry Nilsson.
1976 Southend Pier, the world's longest pleasure pier, was severely damaged by fire. (In 1986 a ship went through the pier and in 1995 a fire broke out in the pier's bowling alley)
1981 The Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer at London's St Paul's Cathedral; the televised ceremony was watched by over 700 million viewers around the world.
1983 Death of David Niven, British film actor.
1983 Death of Raymond Massey, Canadian actor.
1983 For the first time parents were allowed by law to stop their children from being caned at school.
1984 Fifty-year-old Jim Kelly from Scotland, who had a heart transplant four years previously, climbed England's three highest mountains in seventy two hours. He scaled Sca Fell, Helvellyn and Skiddaw, to raise money for Harefield Hospital, west London.
1984 Xu Haifeng from China won the first gold medal in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics after winning the men's free pistol competition. It was also China's first ever Olympic gold medal.
1988 Copies of Sir Richard Attenborough's film 'Cry Freedom' were confiscated by police in South Africa. The film presented the life of Steve Biko, the black activist who died in police custody.
1989 It was announced that an aerial survey was to be carried out later in 1989 to see if North Sea seals had recovered from the virus which decimated them in 1988.
1989 London Zoo revieled that a rare bird-eating tarantula had given birth to seven hundred babies.
1990 John Evans, the chief constable of Devon and Cornwall, said that many police buildings were not easily recognisable as police stations, so the blue lamp - made famous by 'Dixon of Dock Green' would reappear outside police stations in the two counties.
1995 A UFO that entered our solar system was discovered by two amateur American astronomers. It mystified scientists with its huge size and, although beyond Jupiter, could be seen with small telescopes.
1995 Law lords surprised the American government by refusing to deport a Briton to face trial in the United States -the first such failure since extradition law was enacted in 1870.
1995 Serbian teenager who left war-torn former Yugoslavia became Oxford University's youngest undergraduate in a decade.
1995 Local authorities were being swamped with compensation claims by people falling over in the street. Some solicitors were advertising for 'trippers' to get in touch and the bill facing councils was expected to be £130 million in 1995.
1995 Five white teachers resigned from Slough and Eton comprehensive school, claiming the Asian governors were discriminating against a predominantly white staff.
1999 Kate Hoey was made the new Minister for Sport.
1999 Two prison officers were hurt as an incendiary device exploded at York Prison.
2003 A new audiotape purportedly from ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein said his sons died as martyrs for Iraq.
2003 The main Liberian rebel group ordered its troops to stop fighting and to move back from the front line in Monrovia.
2003 Fires raging through south-east France killed four people, as President Chirac vowed stiff punishment for arsonists.
2003 British Airways and unions held 'positive' talks, sparking hopes of a deal in the clocking-on dispute.
2003 Leeds Rhinos expressed their disappointment with the rugby players found guilty of violent conduct.
2003 Wolves agreed a fee of £1.7m with Sunderland for defender Jody Craddock.
2004 Detectives in North Yorkshire charged Mark Hobson with the murders of twin sisters and an elderly couple.
2004 Francis Crick, who helped discover the double helix shape of DNA along with James Watson, died aged 88.
2004 Catherine Zeta Jones told a court that letters from an alleged stalker said she would be chopped into pieces.
2004 Figures showed that BBC Radio 2 attracted an extra 530,000 listeners to reach a record audience of 13.43 million.
2004 Sven-Goran Eriksson said he had not misled the FA over allegations of an affair with a secretary.
2004 Marcus Trescothick hit 105 as England end the first day against West Indies at Edgbaston on 313-5.
2004 Tim Henman lost in straight sets to Gustavo Kuerten at the Toronto Masters.
2004 Newcastle completed the signing of Man Utd midfielder Nicky Butt.
2005 Cameron Diaz wons a libel case against a newspaper which alleged she was having an affair with a married man.

BIRTHDAYS (for 29 July 2006)
George Bradshaw, 205 (born 29 July 1801)
Salford-born printer who originated a series of railway guides in 1839. Sherlock Holmes in `Valley of Fear': 'The vocabulary of Bradshaw is nervous and tense, but limited. The selection of words would hardly lend itself to the sending of general messages'
Benito Mussolini, 123 (born 29 July 1883)
Italian dictator
Clara Bow, 99 (born 29 July 1907)
(Deceased) American leading lady - the `It' girl of the 20s
Charlie Christian, 90 (born 29 July 1916)
(Deceased) Jazz guitar great born in Texas. In the early 30s he experimented with the electrical amplification of guitars and, after a bad start, impressed Benny Goodman. He was very popular but by 1941 was seriously ill with TB and a fast lifestyle and d
Mikis Theodorakis, 81 (born 29 July 1925)
Composer of numerous film scores including 'Night Ambush' and 'The Shadow of the Cat'. It was, however, the score for 'Zorba the Greek' which was an enormous success. He was imprisoned in Greece, as he was a Communist, and tortured and his music was banne
Vernon Dudley Bohey-Nowell, 74 (born 29 July 1932)
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
David Warner, 65 (born 29 July 1941)
British actor who had much success in the theatre before going to Hollywood. His films include 'Star Trek V : The Final Frontier' and 'Star Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country' and 'Cross of Iron'. He was a very sinister Heydrich in 'Holocaust' on televisi
Joe Johnson, 54 (born 29 July 1952)
Bradford snooker player and former world champion
Sally Gunnell, 40 (born 29 July 1966)
Top British athlete

GUESS THE YEAR
Bjorn Borg beat John McEnroe to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon for a record fifth consecutive time. McEnroe remarked after their match: "I wish Borg would let someone else have a go at the title for a change."
Death of Seretse Khama, Botswanan politician.
Unemployment in the UK stood at 1,896,634, the highest figure since 1936.
English actor and comedian Peter Sellers died.
Death of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the deposed Shah of Iran. He died in Cairo’s Maadi Military Hospital, aged 60.
Six days after surprisingly losing to Steve Ovett in the 800 metres final at the Moscow Olympics, Sebastian Coe turned the tables by beating Ovett into third place to win the 1500m gold medal; Jurgen Straub of East Germany took the silver.
Right-wing terrorists exploded a bomb in the crowded Bologna Railway Station, northern ltaly, killing 84 people.
In Mexico, a giant panda gave birth to the first cub born in captivity.
In the Atlantic, the wreck of the Titanic was reported to have been located 12,000 feet beneath the surface of the sea.
ABBA were at No.1 with `The Winner Takes It All’
Lindy Chamberlain told Australian police how she watched her nine-week-old baby daughter, Azaria, being carried off into the night by a dingo, a type of wild dog.
The Pirates of Penzance - the musical opened on Broadway with singer Linda Ronstadt in one of the leading roles.

....and we ask you to ....GUESS THE YEAR
1980

If you're happy and you know it, you must live in Denmark

Denmark is the happiest place on Earth, researchers said today.

A University of Leicester academic has produced a World Map of Happiness outlining the life satisfactions of a country's population.

And while the Danes will be smiling, Brits should not be downbeat, said social psychologist Adrian White, who placed the UK 41st out of 178 countries for happiness.

Ireland in 11th place, said Mr White, also scored highly in the five main criteria for being happy - health, wealth, education, a sense of identity and the aesthetic quality of its landscape.

Seven of the top ten happiest countries were western democracies with state welfare systems including healthcare and education provision.

But bigger countries such as Russia and China scored low as their physical size meant people felt no attachment to a national identity.

"There is a belief that capitalism leads to unhappy people," said Mr White. "However, when people are asked if they are happy with their lives, people in countries with good healthcare, a higher GDP per capita, and access to education were much more likely to report being happy.

"The frustrations of modern life, and the anxieties of the age, seem to be much less significant compared to the health, financial and educational needs in other parts of the world.

"The current concern with happiness levels in the UK may well be a case of the 'worried well'. "It is worth remembering that the UK is doing relatively well in this area, coming 41st out of 178 nations.

"We were surprised to see countries in Asia scoring so low, with China 82nd, Japan 90th and India 125th. These are countries that are thought as having a strong sense of collective identity which other researchers have associated with well-being.

"It is also notable that many of the largest countries in terms of population do quite badly."

Mr White's analysis is based on the findings of more than 100 different studies, questioning 80,000 people from around the world.

Mr White, a social psychologist at the university's school of psychology, analysed data published by UNESCO, the CIA, the New Economics Foundation and the World Health Organisation to create a global projection of subjective well-being: the first world map of happiness.

:: The 10 happiest nations in the world are: 1. Denmark 2. Switzerland 3. Austria 4. Iceland 5. The Bahamas 6. Finland 7. Sweden 8. Bhutan 9. Brunei 10. Canada

Quiz-a-Day

1. What used to be called ‘Father's Beard’ at fairgrounds?
2. Who were the 3 members of ‘Police’?
3. What is the only time it is legal for any driver not to wear a seat belt?
4. What colour is a 13 amp fuse?
5. On TV, who once had his thumb and 2 fingers insured for £20,000?
6. Which is England’s longest motorway?
7. According to the saying, “If you pay peanuts, you get....” What?
8. The word escalator is a combination of which 2 words?
9. Who was the host of the TV show ‘The Other Half’, where contestants have to match up
married couples?
10. Who is the only artist to have a number one in 5 decades?
11. Why did Casanova have numbered balls?
12. What were the titles of the first 3 Indiana Jones films?
13. Whose catchphrase was “What do you think of it so far”?
14. ‘Dead Cert’ was which thriller writer’s first novel?
15. What is the capital of Algeria?
16. Which hospital took in it’s first infant patient in 1852?
17. What is the scientific term for someone who will only have sex in the dark?
18. Which disease killed Al Capone?
19. Blue and Seal Point are which types of cat?
20. Which man has had a hat trick of singles wins at Wimbledon in the 90’s?
21. Which country has the most people speaking English as a first language?
22. Which TV programme began ‘Here is a house, here is a door’?
23. What do Americans call Ladybirds?
24. Which female athlete was cleared of drug taking charges in March 1996?
25. Which song contains the lyric: “You had a temper like my jealousy, too hot”?
26. Which TV family live at 9764 Jeopardy Lane?
27. Do fleas have wings?
28. How old must a couple be to adopt a child?
29. Who were the runners up in the 1994 World Cup?
30. What sort of meat is Pastrami?
31. What were the first 3 number ones for Frankie Laine?
32. Once headed by Mary Whitehouse, what is the N.V.L.A.?
33. Which soccer club is accepted as the oldest in England?
34. A moped is defined as a motor cycle that can’t exceed what speed?
35. What is Michael Jackson's daughter called? (3 names - 3 points)
36. At what age do children reach roughly half their adult height?
37. Which musical featured the song “76 Trombones”?
38. Who had a seventies number one with ‘Whispering Grass’?
39. Which spirit is used in a Daiquiri? ( say dackery)
40. What sort of animal is ‘King Louie’ in Disney’s ‘Jungle Book’?
41. In which advert does a dinosaur bite off a woman’s head?
42. Which TV programme allegedly originally featured ‘Seaman Staines’, ‘Master Bates’ and ‘Roger the Cabin Boy’?
43. Who were the 6 members of the Monty Python team?
44. What is the difference between Libel and Slander?
45. What is the only English anagram of the word ‘organist’?
46. Who was the first player to score 100 goals in the Premier League?
47. What publication, founded in 1826, consists wholly of adverts?
48. Whose diary did Sue Townsend write?
49. Which country has the car index mark ‘M’?
50. In which decade were Premium Bonds introduced? (extra point for year)

ANSWERS: Highlight Below

1. CANDY FLOSS
2. STING, ANDY SUMMERS, STUART COPELAND
3. WHEN REVERSING
4. BROWN
5. HARRY CORBETT (SOOTY)
6. M6
7. MONKEYS
8. ESCALATE, ELEVATOR
9. DALE WINTON
10. CLIFF RICHARD
11. HE WAS A LOTTERY DIRECTOR IN ONE
OF THE WORLD’S FIRST LOTTERIES
12. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, I.J. AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM, THE LAST CRUSADE
13. ERIC MORECAMBE
14. DICK FRANCIS
15. ALGIERS
16. GREAT ORMOND ST
17. NYCTOPHILE
18. SYPHILLIS
19. SIAMESE
20. PETE SAMPRAS
21. USA
22. PLAY SCHOOL
23. LADYBUGS
24. DIANE MODHAL
25. WUTHERING HEIGHTS
26. THE BUNDYS (MARRIED WITH CHILDREN)
27. NO
28. 21
29. ITALY
30. BEEF
31. ANSWER ME, HEY JOE, I BELEIVE
32. NATIONAL VEIWERS AND LISTENERS ASSOCIATION
33. NOTTS COUNTY
34. 30 mph
35. PARIS MICHAEL CATHERINE
36. BETWEEN 2 - 3
37. THE MUSIC MAN
38. WINDSOR DAVIS AND DON ESTELLE
39. RUM
40. ORANG UTAN
41. DAIRYLEA DIPPERS
42. CAPTAIN PUGWASH
43. JOHN CLEESE, MICHAEL PALIN, ERIC IDLE, GRAHAM CHAPMAN, TERRY JONES, TERRY GILLIAM
44. LILBEL’S WRIITEN, SLANDER’S SPOKEN
45. ROASTING
46. ALAN SHEARER
47. EXCHANGE AND MART
48. ADRIAN MOLE’S
49. MALTA
50. 1950’s 1956

Today's The Day - 28th July

28th July 2006
National Day of Peru.

Religious Events today...
Feast day of Saints Nazarius and Celsus,
St Botvid,
and St Samson of Dol.

History Test for July 28th
From which country did Peru declare independence today in 1821? -Spain
Born today in 1866, who created the characters Jemima Puddleduck, Peter Rabbit and Squirrel Nutkin? -Beatrix Potter
What helpful innovation was introduced by the Post Office today in 1959? -Post codes
What popular food first arrived in Britain today in 1586, imported by Sir Thomas Harriot? -The potato
Johann Sebastian Bach died today in 1750. What is the collective name for his six concertos, commissioned by a German duke? -The `Brandenburg Concertos'
Events today...
1540 Thomas Cromwell, Chancellor to King Henry VIII was executed.
1586 Britain's first potatoes arrived in Plymouth, brought from Columbia by Sir Thomas Harriot.
1655 French soldier, novelist and playwright Cyrano de Bergerac died.
1741 Italian violinist and composer Antonio Vivaldi, noted for his Four Seasons, died in Vienna.
1750 German composer Johann Sebastian Bach died of apoplexy.
1794 Maximilien Robespierre and 19 other French Revolutionaries went to the guillotine.
1821 San Martin and his forces liberated Peru and proclaimed its independence from Spain.
1836 Death of Nathan Mayer Rothschild, British banker.
1858 Fingerprints were first used as a means of identification by William Herschel, who later established a fingerprint register.
1868 The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, dealing with citizens' rights of all races, was ratified.
1914 Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, beginning World War I.
1928 The 9th Olympic Games opened in Amsterdam.
1944 Death of Otto Hahn, German nuclear physicist.
1945 A B-52 bomber flying in dense fog crashed into the 78th floor of the Empire State building killing eleven people and the three crew members on board the plane.
1976 The Tai Shan area of China was struck by an earthquake which caused over 800,000 deaths.
1977 Ian Botham made his Test debut against Australia at Trent Bridge, Nottingham.
1978 England cricketer David Gower scored his first Test century on the first day of the second Test against New Zealand.
1983 It was reported that a Pershing 2 missile had exploded just 70 seconds after being launched from Cape Canaveral.
1983 Jockey Lester Piggott was suspended for five days for careless riding.
1983 The whole of Europe was gripped by a heatwave which broke temperature records.
1984 G.H. Shephard's unknown pencil sketch of the young Christopher Robin was sold for £2,970 at a Sotheby's auction. Shephard was the original illustrator of A.A. Milne's 'Winnie the Pooh' books.
1984 Tanzania banned the export of live leopards and cheetahs and products made from the skins of the two endangered animals.
1984 The 23rd Olympic Games opened in Los Angeles.
1988 19 year-old Stuart Luck made medical history when he donated bone marrow to his father to save him from leukaemia, eight years after his father had done the same for him
1988 Former Royal Marine Paddy Ashdown was elected leader of the Social and Liberal Democrats.
1990 According to a survey of 1,700 sixth-formers, examination boards were awarding high grades to pupils with a poor standard of literacy. Britain was prepared to accept standards of work which would have been wholly unacceptable a generation before. Pupils monitored were of above average intelligence but 40% could not spell 'merely', more than 25% misspelt ‘bargain' and more than 50% misspelt 'permanent’ and 'equipped'.
1990 Confidential letters written by the Duke of Edinburgh to the World Wide Fund for Nature were photocopied and sent to television researchers. Apparently, a team from 'The Cook Report', a Central Television programme, had been investigating the affairs of the charity - formerly the World Wildlife Fund.
1990 The Lord Chancellor, Lord Mackay, feared that juries were possibly acquitting defendants because they could not grasp complex arguments in difficult cases. He was also worried that too many professional people in London and the South East were evading jury service by saying they could not be excused from their jobs.
1995 Private Lee Clegg, who was released on licence after serving four years of a life sentence for the murder of Karen Reilly in West Belfast, was to be allowed to stay in the Army, the Ministry of Defence announced.
1995 An unmarried mother who was a woman priest was appointed to Tidworth parish in Wiltshire She was thought to be one of the first unmarried mothers to be given a position of such responsibility.
1995 A doctor who was addicted to heroin while helping to shape the Government’s health reforms was allowed to retain his registration by the General Medical Council, provided he did not prescribe drugs or treat patients until 1996.
1995 A Japanese professor claimed a world record after calculating 'pi' to more than 3 billion decimal places. 'Pi', the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, starts out 3.1415926535897923 and goes on and on and on. Professor Kanada's version would require at least 100,000 newspaper pages.
1998 BMW bought the rights to the Rolls-Royce name from Volkswagen.
1998 Stockport County signed Ian Moore from Tranmere Rovers for a club record fee of £700,000.
2003 Liberia's second city fell to rebels trying to oust President Charles Taylor, while fighting escalated in the capital.
2003 Legendary entertainer Bob Hope died of pneumonia, just weeks after celebrating his 100th birthday.
2003 Russian tycoon, Platon Lebedev, a key shareholder of oil giant Yukos, had tax evasion added to the list of charges against him.
2003 Forest fires sweeping through countryside near the French Riviera killed three people, including two elderly hikers.
2003 The Daily Mirror's payment to farmer Tony Martin, who shot and killed a burglar, was to be investigated. Payments should not be made to covicted criminals, but the papaer said the story was in the publics interest.
2003 Former Hear'Say singer Kym Marsh separated from ex-EastEnders actor Jack Ryder.
2003 Nasser Hussain resigned after England drew the first Test with South Africa.
2003 Wolves held talks with Italian star Dino Baggio over a possible move to Molineux.
2004 Rapper Eminem was criticised after viewers complained he was "lewd" and "offensive" on Top of the Pops.
2004 A family history TV show led Bill Oddie to discover he had a sister who died when she was just five days old.
2005 The wife of fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic appealled to him to surrender to the UN war crimes tribunal.
2005 Arsenal midfielder Freddie Ljungberg penned a new three-year contract at Highbury.

BIRTHDAYS (for 28 July 2006)
Beatrix Potter, 140 (born 28 July 1866)
English author and illustrator of books for children. She published 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit' at her own expense. The publisher Frederick Warne took over publication in 1903 and later she moved to a farm at Sawrey near Lake Windermere
Marcel Duchamp, 119 (born 28 July 1887)
French painter
Rudy Vallee, 105 (born 28 July 1901)
(Deceased) American singer who was very popular in the 20s and 30s. He starred on a weekly NBC radio show which ran for 10 years from 1929 and in the early 30s appeared on Broadway. He had many record successes including songs like 'Brother Can You Spare
Malcolm Lowry, 97 (born 28 July 1909)
(Deceased) English novelist
Sir Horace Cutler, 94 (born 28 July 1912)
Conservative politician and former leader of the Greater London Council
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, 77 (born 28 July 1929)
(Deceased) Widow of President Kennedy who married the ship-owner Aristotle Onassis in 1968
Sir Russell Johnston, 74 (born 28 July 1932)
Liberal politician
Sir Garfield Sobers, 70 (born 28 July 1936)
Legendary West Indian cricketer born in Bridgetown, Barbados, and one of the greatest all-round cricketers. In 93 Test matches for the West Indies he scored more than 8,000 runs and took 235 wickets and 110 catches. He scored 365, not out, in 1958 at King
Ian McCaskill, 68 (born 28 July 1938)
Weatherman
Riccardo Muti, 65 (born 28 July 1941)
Conductor

GUESS THE YEAR
England were held to a goalless draw by Spain in Madrid and were knocked out of the World Cup.
Intruder Michael Fagan entered Buckingham Palace. Once inside he stole a bottle of wine from the palace cellars and made his way to the Queen's bedroom where he sat on the end of her bed and asked her for a cigarette. Following in the wake of a recent incident in which German tourists were found camped out in the Queen's gardens, the incident sparked off rows over Palace security.
Death of Kenneth More, British actor.
English actor Kenneth Moore died at his home in Fulham, London.
Two guardsmen and seven army horses were killed, and seventeen spectators injured, when an IRA bomb exploded while they were en route to Horse Guards Parade for the changing of the guard.
No.1- Dexys Midnight Runners `Come On Eileen’
In the US, much-loved film actor, Henry Fonda, died at the age of 77.
In Leeds, an inquest opened into the death of British nurse Helen Smith killed in Saudi Arabia in 1979.
In London, Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman died of cancer on her 67th birthday.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Charles Burton completed their 3 year trip aboard their craft "Benjamin Bowring". They had sailed around the world by way of both the North and South Poles.
In the UK, American Ashby Harper, 65, became the oldest person to swim the English Channel.
The PLO was driven out of Beirut by the Israelis.

....and we ask you to ....GUESS THE YEAR
1982

Quiz-a-Day

1. What is the medical term for the big toe?
2. What is Dr Nicholas Tulp doing in a Rembrandt painting?
3. Which New York thoroughfare is traditionally associated with the advertising industry?
4. What do the Greeks call a restaurant?
5. In the ancient world what name was given to the two rocks flanking the entrance to the Mediterranean at the Strait of Gibraltar?
6. Give an alternative name for the mountain lion?
7. In literature, who was Don Quixote's servant?
8. There are two branches of calculus, one is differential, name the other.
9. Name either of the football league clubs for whom Alf Ramsey played?
10. Which 1,335 foot hill in central Shropshire is an extinct volcano?
11. Who created the Polo fashion label?
12. The Pentium is a high end processor - what name has INTEL given to its budget processor?
13. In which city is the University of Warwick?
14. What do North Americans call people from the Indian subcontinent to distinguish them from Red Indians?
15. Of which island are birds of paradise natives?
16. Which actress played the title role in the film 'Private Benjamin'?
17. The Gunpowder plot failed because Francis Tresham, one of the conspirators, sent a warning letter to his brother-in-law. Name the brother-in-law.
18. Name the semi-conducting device used for alphanumeric displays in digital clocks, electronic calculators etc.
19. By what name, meaning 'our thing', is the MAFIA organisation also known especially in the United States?
20. Who wrote about a pig called Babe?
21. In which TV sitcom did Paul Shane play scheming butler Alf Stokes?
22. Which motor manufacturer produces the Bora model?
23. Frank Sinatra's real first name was Francis, what was his middle name?
24. What in Japan are No and Kabuki?
25. What is the Italian word for revenge?
26. What nickname is given to the film industry in India?
27. By which three initials is the Italian state broadcasting service known?
28. Which British archaeologist excavated the bronze age city of Knossos?
29. With which branch of the arts do you associate Bernard Leach?
30. Who since 1955 has been, by appointment, dressmaker to the queen?
31. What is the name of the Provencal dish which is a thick spiced soup made of fish and vegetables?
32. Meaning 'base camp', what name did the Germans use for a prisoner-of-war camp for non-commissioned officers and men?
33. In which city are the Spanish Steps?
34. Which jazz singer was known as the Empress of the Blues?
35. Who is the mother of Phoenix Chi GuIzar?
36. What was the significance of the 1999 Oxford v Sunderland football match?
37. What is or was a halberd?
38. Who or what is Antonia as featured in the title of a novel by Louis de Bernieres?
39. Leonard Slatkin succeeded Andrew Davis as principal conductor of which orchestra?
40. What do we call eyeglasses which are held up to the eyes with a handle?
41. Which term, with two rhyming words combined with and, has been coined to refer to the practice of welding together two halves of different cars?
42. What is the surname of the brothers who played for Newcastle United in the 1952 FA Cup Final?
43. In which Northern Ireland county is Enniskillen?
44. Who succeeded John Reid as Secretary of State for Scotland?
45. Which 17th/18th century British physician and naturalist bequeathed his museum and library to the British Museum-
46. Which London thoroughfare is traditionally associated with high quality tailoring?
47. Which organisation is known by the abbreviation NCT?
48. Which Italian city is served by Amerigo Vespucci airport?
49. In art, which Italian term is used to describe a representation of the Virgin with the dead Christ across her knees?
50. What is the name of the chief male sex hormone?

ANSWERS Highlight Below

1. HALLUX
2. Giving an ANATOMY LESSON
3. MADISON AVENUE
4. TAVERNA
5. PILLARS OF HERCULES
6. PUMA or COUGAR
7. SANCHO PANZA
8. INTEGRAL
9. TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR or SOUTHAMPTON
10. WREKIN
11. RALPH LAUREN
12. CELERON
13. COVENTRY
14. EAST INDIANS
15. NEW GUINEA
16. GOLDIE HAWN
17. LORD MONTEAGLE
18. LIGHT EMITTING DIODE (accept LED)
19. COSA NOSTRA
20. DICK KING-SMITH
21. YOU RANG, M'LORD
22. VOLKSWAGEN
23. ALBERT
24. TYPES OF DRAMA
25. VENDETTA
26. BOLLYWOOD
27. RAI
28. SIR ARTHUR EVANS
29. POTTERY
30. HARDY AMIES
31. BOUILLABAISSE
32. STALAG (Stammlager)
33. ROME
34. BESSIE SMITH
35. MEL B(rown) aka Scary Spice
36. FIRST PAY-PER-VIEW MATCH ON BSKYB
37. (Axe-like) WEAPON
38. CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN
39. BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
40. LORGNETTE
41. CUT (and) SHUT
42. ROBLEDO
43. FERMANAGH
44. HELEN LIDDELL
45. SIR HANS SLOANE
46. SAVILE ROW
47. NATIONAL CHILDBIRTH TRUST
48. FLORENCE
49. PIETA
50. TESTOSTERONE

Today's The Day - 27th July

27th July 2006

Religious Events today...
Feast day of The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus,
St Theobald of Marly,
The Martyrs of Salsette,
Saints Auretia, Natalia and their Companions,
and St Pantaleon.

History Test for July 27th
Sir Winston Churchill made his final appearance in the House of Commons today in 1964. How many times was he elected Prime Minister? -Once (in 1951)
Ice-skater Christopher Dean was born today in 1958. He and Jayne Torvill won Olympic ice dancing gold in 1984, accompanied by which piece of music? -Ravel's `Bolero'
Name the actor who played Professor Humbert Humbert in the film `Lolita' and died today in 1984. -James Mason
Which war was ended by the Treaty of Panmunjom today in 1953? -The Korean War
Today in 1921, what treatment for diabetes was isolated by Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best? -Insulin

Events today...
1694 The Bank of England was founded by act of Parliament.
1789 Thomas Jefferson was made head of the new US Department of Foreign Affairs.
1844 Death of John Dalton, English physicist and chemist.
1866 The Great Eastern arrived at Heart's Content in Newfoundland, having successfully laid the transatlantic telegraph cable.
1921 Canadians Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolated insulin; the first effective treatment for diabetes, at the University of Toronto.
1941 Japan invaded Indo-China.
1942 Death of Sir Flinders Petrie, British archaeologist who was the first professor of Egyptology at University College, London.
1942 The Battle of El Alamein ended after 17 days, with the British having prevented the German and Italian advance into Egypt.
1946 American novelist and poet Gertrude Stein died in Paris, where she was a leading figure in the American expatriate community.
1949 The British De Havilland Comet, the world's first jet airliner, flew for the first time at Hatfield.
1953 The Korean armistice was signed at Panmunjon, bringing to an end three years of war which had accounted for the deaths of 116,000 UN troops, including 54,000 US troops.
1956 English cricketer Jim Laker took nineteen wickets against Australia in the fourth Test at Old Trafford, Manchester, recording record figures of nine for 37 and ten for 53.
1959 A study in the UK found that the average male manual worker in Britain earned £13 2s/11d a week.
1962 Martin Luther King was arrested in Albany, Alabama, for holding a prayer meeting on the steps of the city hall.
1964 Sir Winston Churchill appeared in the House of Commons for the last time.
1970 Death of Portuguese prime minister Antonio de Oliviera Salazar.
1980 Death of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the deposed Shah of Iran. He died in Cairo’s Maadi Military Hospital, aged 60.
1983 President Reagan said on television that the United States was not heading for a Vietnam situation in Central America.
1984 Death of James Mason, English actor.
1984 Libya announced that their athletics team would pull out of the Los Angeles Olympics. The withdrawal was revealed after the American State Department decided to ban three Libyan journalists from entering the country to work at the Games.
1985 Ugandan president Milton Obote, who had regained power in 1980 after being deposed by General Idi Amin in 1971, was overthrown by a military coup.
1986 American cyclist Greg LeMond became the first non-European to win the Tour de France.
1986 Death of Osbert Lancaster, British writer and artist.
1988 A life ban was imposed by the British Amateur Athletic Board on Olympic pole vaulter Jeff Gutteridge; the first British athlete to be banned for dope-taking.
1988 Mercury opened the first non-British Telecom payphones at Waterloo Station
1989 According to a study commissioned by the Salvation Army, over 75,000 people were living in "shanty town" conditions in London. It was also claimed that the conditions were "on a par with a third-world shanty town".
1989 Airtours announced that they were to scrap an ancient Boeing 747 jumbo which was known as the "Flying Pig" because of its appalling service after repeated technical problems.
1989 In Spain the British Council asked the public to donate five hundred old tables and chairs so that a British sculptor could throw them into a fountain to create a new work of art.
1989 Surrealist film maker Luis Bunuel's short film about Salvador Dali and his family was discovered by chance after fifty nine year’s in a biscuit tin
1990 £500,000 was to be paid by Gateway, the supermarket chain, towards a cultural and spiritual centre for Bristol cathedral. The supermarket's green and yellow logo would be displayed inside the"Gateway Centre", which would also have a tourist information office.
1990 The World Health Organisation in Geneva reported that AIDS was the main cause of death for women aged between 20 and 40.
1992 Rentokil unveiled a computer controlled mousetrap that didn't need cheese.
1993 A council tenant from Loughton, Essex, used the red rinds from thousands of Edam cheeses to insulate his loft.
1995 A man who was talked out of jumping from the roof of a multi-storey car park returned to his car to find he had been given a parking ticket.
1995 Three schoolboys who found buried treasure worth £5,000 in a hole on a canal bank near Halsall in Lancashire were to be allowed the keep it, after efforts to trace the owners failed.
1995 The Government announced that it was to send in a 'hit squad' to take over an east London comprehensive school, Hackney Downs School, in September. The new Education Association would decide by the end of October whether the school had a future.
1995 The father of the bride at a country wedding was arrested as he prepared to deliver his speech to about 100 guests. His daughter demanded he be thrown out. Police acted to prevent a breach of the peace when they were told he was uninvited and likely to cause trouble.
1995 It was reported that Kevin Costner's film 'Waterworld' had cost $200 million. Journalists had seen the final cut Time's verdict was 'a slow ride on very bumpy surf'.
1997 Tracy Andrews was jailed for the murder of her boyfriend as the jury decided against her story that he was a victim of a `road-rage’ attack.
1998 Peter Mandelson became Trade and Industry Secretary following Tony Blair’s ministerial reshuffle. He also sacked Hariet Harman, David Clark, Gavin Strang and Leader of the Lords, Lord Richard.
2003 Lance Armstrong claimed his fifth consecutive Tour de France as Jean-Patrick Nazon took the final stage.
2003 Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger marked his 60th birthday with an exclusive party in Prague.
2003 British Airways chief executive said the airline had no automatic right to survive as he prepared for talks with unions over the new clocking on procedures.
2003 The Home Office said that jailed farmer Tony Martin would not report to a Norfolk probation office after his imminent release.
2003 The News of the World defended its story that ex-footballer John Fashanu admitted taking money to rig matches.
2003 It was announced that former children's TV presenter Andi Peters was returning to the BBC to take charge of Top of the Pops.
2003 Michael Phelps finished the World Swimming Championships with five world records and three golds.
2003 Chelsea beat Newcastle 5-4 in a penalty shoot-out to win the Asia Cup final in Malaysia. Newcastle boss Sir Bobby Robson says Jermaine Jenas' penalty miss against Chelsea was unforgivable.
2004 A former serviceman appeared in court charged with the murder of his 10-year-old terminally ill son.
2004 A boy with a rare blood disorder was successfully given stem cells from his "designer baby" brother.
2004 Critics gave a cautious welcome to BBC One's new schedule, featuring new dramas and a Spelling Bee.
2004 Chelsea completed the signing of defender Ricardo Carvalho from Porto for £19.85m.
2004 Paul Gascoigne agreed in principle" to become player-coach at Boston United.
2005 At least three people were dead and 45 were still missing after fire destroyed an oil platform off India's west coast.
2005 Shankill bomber Sean Kelly was released from Maghaberry prison, a month after being re-jailed.
2005 Granville Technology, maker of Tiny and Time PCs, called in the administrators and prepared to cut 1,500 jobs.
2005 Joey Barton was fined eight weeks' wages by Manchester City after the club found him guilty of gross misconduct.
BIRTHDAYS (for 27 July 2006)
Alexandre Dumas fils, 182 (born 27 July 1824)
French writer and playwright, who wrote 'La Dame aux Camelias' in 1848
Enrique Granados, 139 (born 27 July 1867)
Spanish pianist
Hilaire Belloc, 136 (born 27 July 1870)
French-born British writer and poet who became a Liberal MP for a short time. He is probably best known for his nonsensical verse for children 'The Bad Child's Book of Beasts' and the 'Cautionary Tales'
Anton Dolin, 102 (born 27 July 1904)
(Deceased) English ballet dancer, born in Sussex. He partnered Alicia Markova and they became famous, especially for 'Giselle', and he wrote a book about Markova in 1953
Leo Durocher, 101 (born 27 July 1905)
baseball player & manager. (1906?)
Lord Jenkins of Putney, 98 (born 27 July 1908)
Jack Higgins, 77 (born 27 July 1929)
(Harry Patterson) English thriller writer born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne who became a best-selling author with the success of 'The Eagle Has Landed' in 1975, about a plot by the Germans to kidnap Winston Churchill. The novel was made into a successful film s
Baroness Shirley Williams, 76 (born 27 July 1930)
Former Labour Minister, the daughter of diarist Vera Brittain. She became a Labour MP in 1964 and held a variety of ministerial posts. She was a co-founder of the Social Democratic Party in 1981 and in 1988 joined the new, merged Social and Liberal Democr
Nick Reynolds, 73 (born 27 July 1933)
The Kingston Trio, the biggest selling early 60s folk group. Formed in San Francisco in the late 50s, they charted with 'Tom Dooley', which reached number 1 in the US chart. They had other hits including 'The Reverend Mr Black', in 1963 and released many
Bobbie Gentry, 64 (born 27 July 1942)
Singer and songwriter born in Mississippi, who had a big hit with 'Ode To Billy Joe', which topped the US charts for four weeks. She had another chart success with 'I'll Never Fall in Love Again' in 1969
Barbara Thompson, 62 (born 27 July 1944)
Saxophonist
Allan Border, 51 (born 27 July 1955)
Cricketer
Christopher Dean, 48 (born 27 July 1958)
British ice-skater who with his partner Jayne Torvill won an Olympic gold medal for ice-dancing.
Jo Durie, 46 (born 27 July 1960)
Tennis player
Michael Ball, 44 (born 27 July 1962)
Singer

GUESS THE YEAR
Maria Callas, at the age of 41, gave her last stage performance singing Tosca at Covent Garden, London.
Horse-racing stalls were first introduced in Britain in the Chesterfield Stakes at Newmarket.
US statesman Adlai Stevenson collapsed and died in London from a heart attack.
US Mariner transmitted the first close-up pictures of Mars.
The Mont Blanc road tunnel, linking France with Italy, was opened.
Death of Syngman Rhee, Korean politician.
Sir Alec Douglas-Home resigned as leader of the Conservative Party.
Death of Constance Bennett, US film actress.
Former world light-heavyweight boxing champion Freddie Mills was found shot dead in his car in Soho, London. A verdict of suicide was recorded but the circumstances in which he died has cast doubts in some minds as to the accuracy of the judgement.
Figures in the UK showed that ITV's 'Coronation Street’ was the most popular weekly television programme.
Cigarette advertising on British television was banned.

....and we ask you to ....GUESS THE YEAR
1965

Quiz-a-Day

1. What is alopecia?
2. What measure is used for sound or noise?
3. What is pancetta?
4. In Scotland, what are Eigg, Muck and Rhum?
5. Which Iranian poet's most famous translator was Edward Fitzgerald?
6. Who recorded 'Hoochie Coochie Man' and 'Got My Mojo Working'?
7. In which sport is there a york round?
8. What does a galactophagist like to drink?
9. In which film does Robert de Niro play the role of Travis Bickle ?
10. What is the unit of currency used in Costa Rica ?
11. Which Shakespeare character kills his wife Desdemona
12. What type of drug is "diazepam"
13. Who painted Flatford Mill?
14. What is the high security prison on the Isle of Wight called?
15. The song, Ain’t Misbehavin’ was written by which famous jazz musician?
16. Which is the only Christian country in Asia?
17. Which romantic poet wrote “The Bride of Abydos
18. Who had a 70’s hit with ‘Feelings’?
19. What sort of fruit is a Casaba?
20. Which was the first passenger jet aircraft?
21. What colour is copper sulphate?
22. What word can mean a fish and to glide on ice?
23. Where did the liner Queen Elizabeth catch fire?
24. What was Mud’s 1st No. 1?
25. Complete the saying: 'To err is humanTo forgive
26. Who registered the first patents for the railway sleeping car?
27. Of which group is Mick Hucknall the lead singer ?
28. In which sea do Borneo and the Philippines lie?
29. What is Pnigrophobia the fear of?
30. What is the principal vegetable in the Russian soup ``Solyanka''
31. What was Bill Cosby's character's name in The Cosby Show?
32. How many locks are there on the Suez Canal?
33. Who is the voice of Scar in 'The Lion King'?
34. Who had a hit with 'Leader Of The Pack'?
35. What kind of animal is a civet?
36. In the Flintstones what was Wilma’s vacuum cleaner
37. In which country is there a volcano called Hecla?
38. European and Lombardy are varieties of which tree?
39. Who was the author of 'Lost Horizon'?
40. TV Sci-fi. Which race is presided over by the Grand Nagus?

Answers - Highlight below
1. Baldness
2. Decibels
3. Bacon
4. Islands
5. Omar Khayyam
6. Muddy Waters
7. Archery
8. Milk
9. Taxi Driver
10. Colon
11. Othello
12. A Tranquillizer
13. John Constable
14. Parkhurst
15. Fats Waller
16. The Philippines.
17. Lord Byron
18. Morris Albert
19. Melon
20. The Comet
21. Blue
22. Skate
23. Hong Kong
24. Tiger Feet
25. Divine
26. Pullman
27. Simply Red
28. South China Sea
29. Smothering
30. Cucumber
31. Dr. Cliff Huckstable
32. None
33. Jeremy Irons
34. The Shangri‑Las
35. A cat
36. Baby Elephant on roller skates)
37. Iceland
38. Poplar
39. James Hilton
40. Ferengi

Today's The Day - 26th July

26th July 2006
National Day of Liberia.

Religious Events today...
Feast day of St Anne,
St Simeon the Annenian,
St Joachim,
and St Banholomea Capitanio.

History Test for July 26th
Which liner set sail on her maiden voyage today in 1845, the first to be fitted with a screw propeller? -The Great Britain
Which law enforcement agency was founded in Washington DC today in 1908? -The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Born today in 1945 which actress has won awards for her performances in the mini series `Prime Suspect'? -Helen Mirren
English author Aldous Huxley was born today in 1894. The title of his best known novel - `Brave New World' - is a line from which Shakespeare play? -`The Tempest'
Born today in 1927 which entertainer called his autobiography `From Drags to Riches'? -Danny la Rue
Events today...
1745 The first women's cricket match on record took place at Gosdon Common, near Guildford in Surrey, with neighbouring village Hambledon beating Bramley.
1788 New York became the 11th state of the United States of America.
1847 Liberia became the first African colony to secure independence.
1863 Death of Samuel Houston, US general and president of the Republic of Texas.
1908 The US Federal Bureau of Investigation, concerned in particular with internal security, was founded.
1945 Clement Attlee's Labour post-war government came to power with a huge landslide victory in Britain's General Election.
1952 Maria Eva Perón, Argentina's First Lady, popularly known as Evita, died of cancer at the age of 33.
1956 ERNIE, the electronic equipment designed to randomly pick the Premium Bond winners was unveiled.
1956 President Nasser of Egypt nationalised the Suez Canal which led to confrontation with Britain, France, and Israel.
1957 Figures in the UK revealed that 1.5 million people were living alone, twice as many as 25 years earlier.
1958 Charles, the Queen's eldest son, was invested with the title Prince of Wales.
1958 Debutantes were presented at the Royal Court in Britain for the last time.
1963 A 50 mph speed limit was introduced in the UK - but ignored by most drivers.
1963 Around 1,000 people were killed when an earthquake struck the Yugoslav city of Skopje.
1971 Hundreds of topless women on the French Riviera were ordered by riot police to put their bikini tops back on.
1979 Death of Charles Clore, English financier.
1983 A pair of gloves from the seventeenth century was sold for £580 at Christie's in South Kensington.
1983 British Gas announced record profits of £665 million.
1983 Husband and wife acting team Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray both received the OBE from the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
1983 It was reported that laboratories at the Aldermaston Atomic Research base in Berkshire had been closed down while they were disinfected to get rid of an infestation of fleas.
1984 Green top milk was blamed for an outbreak of illness that killed five people in WestYorkshire. Calderdale coroner James Turnbull warned that elderly people and babies were most at risk from drinking the raw unpasteurised milk.
1984 Phyllis Bellworthy from Lightwater, Surrey, was granted a divorce from her husband who was allegedly so mean that he did not trust her in buying new underwear. Instead, he bought it for her.
1986 Death of Averell Haniman, US statesman and diplomat.
1987 Cyclist Steve Roche became the first Irishman, and only the second non-continental European, to win the Tour de France.
1988 Scientists in Oxford began tests on the Turin Shroud to find it's true date of origin.
1990 The last Citroen 2CV rolled of the production line in Portugal, 42 years after the model was introduced.
1990 The newly published Royal Mail International Business Travel Guide contained some helpful hints. It is illegal not to wear a shirt in Tonga; in Albania a nod of the head means 'no', a shake of the head means 'yes'; the Japanese think it impolite to say 'no' at all so they all say 'yes'-vaguely; Aussie taxi drivers do not expect to be tipped and in Japan you must not open the door until the driver does so for you, you are likely to be applauded in China and it is polite to applaud back, in Nepal all foreign visitors are considered to be polluted, so don't step over anyone's feet-always walk round, and never stand in front of anyone who is eating, always give gifts in Indonesia with your right hand and in Cuba don't give any at all - not even back-handed.
1995 Bob Monkhouse was offering a reward of £10,000 for the return of two joke books stolen from the BBC Television Centre. The books contained gags and script ideas jotted down over 25 years.
1995 Noel Edmonds rejected an informal request from the BBC to incorporate the National Lottery draw in his show, 'Noel's House Party', when it returned in the autumn.
1995 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was under pressure to give up smoking, 50 years after his death. Health officials said that a symbol showing FDR with a cigarette-holder between his teeth at the former President's mansion was unacceptable to visitors.
1995 The Emperor and Empress of Japan laid flowers at an atomic bomb memorial in Nagasaki-the first time they had paid a visit just to pray for atomic bomb victims.
1996 Home Secretary Michael Howard referred the "Bridgewater Four" case back to the Appeal Court.
1998 The tycoon Tiny Roland died, aged 80.
2003 Gunmen believed to be mutinous rogue soldiers seized a major shopping complex in the Philippines capital.
2003 A fresh row over Prime Minister Berlusconi's immunity from prosecution shook Italy's coalition government.
2003 Britain's David Millar won the time trial as Lance Armstrong virtually secured his fifth Tour de France crown.
2003 The home secretary David Blunkett, asked the Prison Service to explain why a burglar shot by farmer Tony Martin was released early.
2003 Lord Hutton visited the family of Dr David Kelly as he prepared to begin his inquiry into the scientist's death.
2003 Singer and actress Liza Minnelli and husband David Gest split after 16 months.
2003 South Africa captain Graeme Smith made 277 against England before rain again hits the first Test.
2003 Katy Sexton is ecstatic after she claimed the women's 200m backstroke title at the World Swimming Championships in Barcelona.
2003 Everton's Wayne Rooney faced an X-ray after injuring an ankle in the 3-2 win at Rangers.
2004 A four-day convention opened in Boston to back John Kerry as Democratic candidate in the US presidential elections.
2004 Google crashed for several hours after being hit by a variant of the computer virus MyDoom.
2004 A 16-year-old Lincolnshire boy was convicted of the murder of fellow pupil Luke Walmsley.
2004 A booklet advising what to do in the event of an emergency was launched as part of an £8m government campaign.
2004 An Aboriginal group prevented native Australian artefacts from being returned to museums in the UK.
2004 Newcastle agreed a fee for Man Utd midfielder Nicky Butt subject to a medical.
2004 Ashley Giles took five wickets as England complete a 210-run victory over West Indies.
2004 FA members were reportedly embarrassed over revelations concerning Sven-Goran Eriksson's private life.
2005 A radical Dutch-Moroccan Islamist was jailed for life for murdering Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh.
2005 Nepal's anti-corruption panel sent former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba to jail for two years for corruption.
2005 A Liverpool fan was jailed for the attempted murder of a barman in Bulgaria, despite another man admitting his guilt.
2005 It ws announced that London Broncos would change their name to Harlequins Rugby League and play at the 'Twickenham Stoop'.

BIRTHDAYS (for 26 July 2006)
George Bernard Shaw, 150 (born 26 July 1856)
Carl Gustav Jung, 131 (born 26 July 1875)
Psychologist
Aldous Huxley, 112 (born 26 July 1894)
English novelist ("Brave New World").
Robert Graves, 111 (born 26 July 1895)
Poet and novelist
Paul Gallico, 109 (born 26 July 1897)
Novelist
Blake Edwards, 84 (born 26 July 1922)
American writer and film director who directed the 'Pink Panther' films
Jason Robards, 84 (born 26 July 1922)
American film and stage actor
Danny La Rue, 79 (born 26 July 1927)
actor/entertainer
Stanley Kubrick, 78 (born 26 July 1928)
American film director who has only made about a dozen films since the early 50s but they include 'Spartacus', 'Lolita', 'Dr Strangelove', '2001: A Space Odyssey' and the very controversial 'A Clockwork Orange', which he did not wish to be shown in this c
Barbara Jefford, 76 (born 26 July 1930)
British stage and screen actress. Her films include 'The Bofors Gun' and 'When the Whales Came'
Lance Percival, 73 (born 26 July 1933)
Entertainer
Dr Brian Mawhinney, 66 (born 26 July 1940)
Chairman of the Conservative Party
Bobby Hebb, 65 (born 26 July 1941)
60's hitmaker with the single 'Sunny', which was also recorded by Georgie Fame.
Brenton Wood, 65 (born 26 July 1941)
Who had success in 1967 with 'The Ooogum Boogum Song'!
Dobie Gray, 64 (born 26 July 1942)
60's soul star, who recorded 'The In Crowd' in 1965 and 'See You At The Go-Go'. He had another hit in 1973 with 'Drift Away'
Mick Jagger, 63 (born 26 July 1943)
Lead singer of The Rolling Stones
Helen Mirren, 60 (born 26 July 1946)
British stage, screen and film actress who has won the BAFTA Best Actress on TV award three times for the 'Prime Suspect' series. Her films include 'The Long Good Friday' and 'The Madness of King George'
Roger Taylor, 57 (born 26 July 1949)
Norfolk-born drummer with Queen. He has led his own band, The Cross, since 1989
Susan George, 56 (born 26 July 1950)
English actress in films from the 1960s including 'The Looking Glass War', 'Straw Dogs' and 'Venom'

GUESS THE YEAR
President Johnson signed the US Civil Rights Bill prohibiting racial discrimination.
The Beatles’ first film, A Hard Day’s Night, was given a royal premier in London.
Donald Campbell attained a new world land-speed record of over 403 mph in his Bluebird, on the salt flats of Lake Eyre in South Australia.
John White, Tottenham Hotspur's inside right, was killed when lightning struck the tree under which he was sheltering while out playing golf.
Sir Winston Churchill appeared in the House of Commons for the last time.
The first Brook Advisory Clinic was opened in the UK, to give family planning advice to unmarried couples.
The first ever close up pictures of the moon were returned to earth by the US Ranger 7.
US country singer Jim Reeves was killed in an air crash.
In London, the third James Bond film, `Goldfinger', starring Sean Connery was released. The title song, recorded by Shirley Bassey, was already in the charts.
Police were flown into Hastings, East Sussex, to quell clashes between Mods and Rockers.
Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones was fined £32 for driving a car with no insurance in Liverpool.
In the UK, `James Bond' creator Ian Fleming died at the age of 56.

....and we ask you to ....GUESS THE YEAR
1964

Quiz-a-Day

1 In which US state are the Sierra Nevada mountains?
CALIFORNIA
2 Which island off the north coast of Devon takes its name from the Norse word for Puffin?
LUNDY
3 Who played the murderer in Kind Hearts and Coronets?
DENNIS PRICE
4 Which word connects : crab, mite, monkey, plant & wasp?
SPIDER
5 True or False :- Panay is an island off Hong Kong?
FALSE (Philippines)
6 On which London street is Selfridges?
OXFORD STREET
7 A Strobilus is another name for a Pine Cone, an Orchid Stamen, or a Tulip Bulb?
PINE CONE
8 Which World War II leader was executed and exhibited by his own people?
MUSSOLINI
9 What name is given stunted and withered apples used to make rough cider?
SCRUMPS
10 Shorthorn cattle were the first breed to have their own herdbook. In which county were they developed?
DURHAM
11 In Treasure Island who apart from Jim Hawkins narrates part of the story?
Dr. LIVESEY
12 Who was crop-dusted in the film North by Northwest?
CARY GRANT
13 Marcus Samuel developed Shell Oil, but what was the original family business?
IMPORTING SEA SHELLS
14 Which American became world chess champion in 1972?
BOBBY FISCHER
15 Who wrote the drama series The Singing Detective?
DENNIS POTTER
16 What was once the traditional name for the holiday period in northern industrial towns?
WAKES WEEK
17 Which team game has positions, First defence, in home and second attack?
LACROSSE
18 Who built the majority of Wormwood Scrubs?
CONVICTS (All but the first 9 cells)
19 Is gneiss a type of rock, moss, or grass?
ROCK
20 What was Newcastle University called when it was a college of Durham University?
KINGS COLLEGE
21 True or False :- Amy Johnson was an American?
FALSE (BRITISH)
22 Who led the Scottish forces at Bannockburn?
ROBERT THE BRUCE
23 Who traded places with Eddie Murphy in Trading Places?
DAN AKROYD
24 Which part of Britain was called Vectis by the Romans?
ISLE OF WIGHT
25 Who narrated the 26 part TV series The World at War?
LAURENCE OLIVIER
26 Traquin the Proud was the last King of where?
ROME
27 Which country’s largest and oldest city was partly developed by a convict called Francis Greenaway?
AUSTRALIA’S (SYDNEY)
28 On which river is Victoria falls?
ZAMBEZI
29 In Chinese cosmology what is the contrst and compliment to the Yin?
YANG
30 Is a Saxhorn a plant, a musical instrument or an antelope?
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
31 Vinegar is a dilute solution of which acid?
ACETIC
32 Who in 1907 was the first woman to receive the Order of Merit?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
33 In which sport were Barry Briggs and Ove Fundin World Champions?
SPEEDWAY
34 Who had top 10 hits in the 1970’s with Come on over to my place, There goes my first love, Kissin’ in the back row of the movies?
THE DRIFTERS
35 Which idol did the Israelites make when they thought Moses would not return from Mount Sinai?
THE GOLDEN CALF
36 What does the Dewey Decimal System classify?
(Library) BOOKS
37 True or False :- I Ching is a Chinese method of divination?
TRUE
38 Which German scholar sold his soul to the devil in return for power & knowledge?
FAUST
39 What sorghum : Herb, Mineral oxide, Cereal Crop?
CEREAL CROP
40 What was lester Piggott’s first derby winner?
NEVER SAY DIE

Today's The Day - 25th July

25th July 2006

Religious events today...
Feast day of St Christopher,
Saints Thea, Valentina and Paul,
St James the Greater,
and St Magnericus.

History Test for July 25th
How did Louise Brown achieve medical history today in 1978? -She became the world's first test tube baby
What aviation feat was achieved for the first time by Louis Bleriot today in 1909? -He became the first man to cross the Channel in an aeroplane
Name the Scottish chemist and inventor of waterproof clothing, who died today in 1843. -Charles Macintosh
Today in 1917, Margaretha Gertruida Zelle was condemned to death for spying. By what name was she better known? -Mata Hari
Which rock group made its chart debut today in 1963 and has five consecutive UK Number Ones to its credit? -The Rolling Stones
Events today...
306AD Death of Flavius Valerius Constantinus, Roman emperor.
1139 Alfonso I of Portugal defeated the Moors at Ourique.
1581 A confederation of the northern provinces of the Netherlands proclaimed their independence from Spain.
1587 Christianity was banned in Japan.
1603 The coronation of King James I took place.
1834 English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge died.
1843 Death of Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor.
1887 Death of Henry Mayhew, British social investigator and founder of Punch.
1907 Sir Robert Baden-Powell's experimental camp, to test the feasibility of scouting, began on Brownsea Island, near Poole. Four days later, the Boy Scouts organisation was created.
1909 Louis Bleriot landed in Dover to become the first person to fly the Channel - and won the £1,000 prize the Daily Mail offered to the first person to complete the journey either way.
1914 WG Grace scored 69 not out for Eltham against Grove Park in his last cricket match. He was 66 at the time.
1917 Magarethe Zelle, the Dutch spy known as Mata Hari, was sentenced to death.
1934 Death of Engelbert Dolfuss, Astrian statesman.
1935 The first greetings telegram was sent in Britain.
1943 Benito Mussolini was forced to resign as Dictator of Italy, bringing an end to the Fascist regime.
1948 Bread rationing in Britain ended.
1952 The European Coal and Steel Community, established by the treaty of Pari 1951, was ratified.
1959 The hovercraft, the SRN1 as it was called, made its first English Channel crossing -- from Dover to Calais -- in a little over two hours.
1965 Former world light-heavyweight boxing champion Freddie Mills was found shot dead in his car in Soho, London. A verdict of suicide was recorded but the circumstances in which he died has cast doubts in some minds as to the accuracy of the judgement.
1968 Barclay's Bank merged with Martin's Bank.
1978 The first test-tube baby in Britain was born - Louise Joy Brown, at Oldham General Hospital, Lancashire.
1983 The US Air Force announced that for the first time it had successfully knocked down air-to-air missiles with a laser beam fired from an aircraft.
1984 A kitten survived a two hundred mile motorway journey from Plymouth sitting on top of the battery under a car bonnet. The animal was discovered as the driver stopped at a motorway service station in Strensham, Hereford and Worcester.
1984 Howard Austin from Pudsey, West Yorkshire, who started a computer software hire company with a government grant was fined £40 after he became the first person in Britain to be convicted of software piracy.
1984 Police were investigating the theft of five life size bronze figures created by British sculptor Barbara Hepworth. They were stolen from the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Bretton, near Wakefield.
1984 Soviet cosmonauts Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space after leaving the Salyut 7 space station for over three hours with a colleague to do some welding.
1985 American actor Rock Hudson went into hospital in Paris to be treated for Aids.
1987 The London Daily News closed down only five months after its launch.
1988 A Michael Jackson look-alike brought traffic to a standstill in the West End of London.
1988 The Department of Health and Social Security was split into two separate departments.
1988 Winds gusting to more than 70mph caused widespread destruction across Britain in the worst July weather for 50 years.
1989 Four and a half-year-old Lucinda Cash-Gibson from Belsize Park, north London, became the youngest ever member of Mensa when she scored a total of 161 in her Mensa test.
1989 Road signs were erected in southern Norway with a symbol of a ghost to warn motorists of supernatural hazards, following numerous accidents ascribed to supernatural occurrences.
1989 Sean Shannon from Oxford was named the world's fastest talker after reciting the 260 word "To Be Or Not To Be" speech from Hamlet in 26.8 seconds.
1990 Dr George Carey was nominated as the 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury.
1990 Esso increased the price of petrol to 44.9p a litre for four-star and 41.9p for premium unleaded
1990 HMS Repulse returned to port after completing the 200th Polaris patrol since ballistic missile submarines came into service more than 21 years ago.
1992 A record 172 nations were represented at the XXVth Olympics which opened in Barcelona. The opening ceremony was watched in TV by an estimated 3.5 billion people world wide. The Spanish hosts defied the critics and staged one of the most successful Games ever.
1995 A visiting boys choir from Romania were forced to busk outside York Minster to raise £3,000 for repairs after the bottom fell out of their coach. The tour leader said: “We are praying for a miracle to get us home.”
1995 A doctor, accused of plaguing women with more than 2,000 nuisance telephone calls from his consulting room, left the country before a General Medical Council hearing. He denied all charges and returned to his native South Africa.
1995 Germany was set to ban all vehicles without catalytic converters on autobahns in its summer smog alert.
1995 An independent commission set up by Paddy Ashdown, the Liberal Democrat leader, said that state pensions should be linked to earnings rather than prices.
1995 Richard Branson announced an attempt on a non-stop circumnavigation of the world by balloon during the winter. Richard Branson said: “The project is in the spirit of Jules Verne.”
1997 Tony Blair became the first Prime Minister for 30 years to campaign in a by-election when he visited Uxbridge.
1998 British swimmer Michael Fibbens was banned from competitions for a year by the governing body FINA after testing positive for a banned stimulant. Traces of Benzoylecgonine were detected after Fibbens won the 100m freestyle in a World Cup meet in Sheffield in March.
2000 An Air France Concorde crashed outside Charles De Gaule Airport in France killing 113 passengers.
2003 A military court sentenced Russian tank commander Yuri Budanov to 10 years in jail for killing a Chechen woman.
2003 Europe's biggest carmaker VW, suffered as the strength of the euro cut into export earnings and restructuring costs were mounting.
2003 The head of British Airways agreed to meet unions for urgent talks to resolve the dispute which had caused major disruption at Heathrow.
2003 Cameron Stout won Big Brother's £70,000 prize ahead of Ray Shah on the show's final night.
2003 John Schlesinger, the Oscar-winning director of Midnight Cowboy and Billy Liar, dies aged 77.
2003 Arsenal completed the signing of goalkeeper Jens Lehmann from Borussia Dortmund.
2003 Michael Phelps sets a new world record as he beats Ian Thorpe to gold at the World Championships.
2003 Damien Duff made a winning start as Chelsea beat Malaysia 4-1 in the Asia Cup in Kuala Lumpur.
2004 Lance Armstrong won his record-breaking sixth Tour de France in Paris.
2004 George Lucas' third and final Star Wars prequel got a name - Revenge of the Sith.
2004 Michael Schumacher beat Jenson Button into second at the German Grand Prix.
2005 A photographer was convicted of forgery after trying to sell topless photos of actress Cameron Diaz.
2005 Sony BMG was told to stop paying radio station employees in the US to play its artists' songs.
2005 Aston Villa forward Darius Vassell was undergoing a medical ahead of a move to Man City.

BIRTHDAYS (for 25 July 2006)
Arthur James Balfour, 158 (born 25 July 1848)
Conservative Prime Minister
Walter Brennan, 112 (born 25 July 1894)
American character actor in films from the 20s to the 70s, notably 'To Have and Have Not’ and 'Rio Bravo'
Cyril Luckham, 99 (born 25 July 1907)
(Deceased) English actor
Johnny `Rabbit' Hodges, 99 (born 25 July 1907)
(Deceased) American jazz saxophonist who recorded many numbers with Duke Ellington
Estelle Getty, 83 (born 25 July 1923)
American actress best known for her appearances in 'The Golden Girls'
Annie Ross, 76 (born 25 July 1930)
Surrey-born singer and actress, who had a jazz club in London in the 1960s. She recorded with Georgie Fame in the 1980s
James Butler, 75 (born 25 July 1931)
Sculptor
Professor Lord (Colin) Renfrew of Kairnsthorn, 69 (born 25 July 1937)
British archaeologist
Tom Dawes, 62 (born 25 July 1944)
Cyrkle - the only American act managed by Brian Epstein. They supported the Beatles on tour and had a modest hit with 'Turn Down Day'
Sally Beauman, 62 (born 25 July 1944)
writer
Steve Goodman, 58 (born 25 July 1948)
(Deceased) American songwriter who wrote the song 'City of New Orleans' which was a hit for many artists. He died in 1984 following a bone marrow transplant operation
Verdine White, 55 (born 25 July 1951)
Earth, Wind and Fire who had a hit in 1975 with 'Shining Star' and they also recorded 'Got To Get You Into My Life'. They produced a string of albums and some memorable songs including 'After the Love Has Gone', 'September' and 'Boogie Wonderland'
Lynne Frederick, 53 (born 25 July 1953)
(Deceased) British actress who was married to David Frost for a short time, and the widow of Peter Sellers. Her films included 'No Blade of Grass' and 'Voyage of the Damned'
Sheena McDonald, 52 (born 25 July 1954)
broadcaster
Walter Payton, 52 (born 25 July 1954)
(American Football) -- Record breaking Chicago Bears running back
Iman, 51 (born 25 July 1955)
model
Jackie Lye, 47 (born 25 July 1959)
English actress on television. She played Sandra in 'Brush Strokes' and has appeared in 'Fresh Fields' and 'The Bill'
Darren Jackson, 40 (born 25 July 1966)
(Soccer) -- Celtic and Scotland striker
Rudi Bryson, 38 (born 25 July 1968)
(Cricket) -- South African Test seamer
Lord Nicholas Windsor, 36 (born 25 July 1970)
son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent
Louise Brown, 28 (born 25 July 1978)
First test tube baby

GUESS THE YEAR
Bjorn Borg beat John McEnroe to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon for a record fifth consecutive time. McEnroe remarked after their match: "I wish Borg would let someone else have a go at the title for a change."
Death of Seretse Khama, Botswanan politician.
Unemployment in the UK stood at 1,896,634, the highest figure since 1936.
English actor and comedian Peter Sellers died.
Death of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the deposed Shah of Iran. He died in Cairo’s Maadi Military Hospital, aged 60.
Six days after surprisingly losing to Steve Ovett in the 800 metres final at the Moscow Olympics, Sebastian Coe turned the tables by beating Ovett into third place to win the 1500m gold medal; Jurgen Straub of East Germany took the silver.
Right-wing terrorists exploded a bomb in the crowded Bologna Railway Station, northern ltaly, killing 84 people.
In Mexico, a giant panda gave birth to the first cub born in captivity.
In the Atlantic, the wreck of the Titanic was reported to have been located 12,000 feet beneath the surface of the sea.
ABBA were at No.1 with `The Winner Takes It All’
Lindy Chamberlain told Australian police how she watched her nine-week-old baby daughter, Azaria, being carried off into the night by a dingo, a type of wild dog.
The Pirates of Penzance - the musical opened on Broadway with singer Linda Ronstadt in one of the leading roles.

....and we ask you to ....GUESS THE YEAR
1980

Quiz-a-Day

1 In which series did Reg Varney play a character called Stan Butler
2 What was the follow up to Mary Poppins
3 Who played Calamity Jane in the 1953 film
4 Who directed the film pulp fiction
5 Who was the youngest of the Beatles
6 At which sport do the New York Knicks and the Houston Rockets play
7 Of which christian group is a latter day saint a member
8 Which two airlines operated Concord
9 Which travel agent pioneered packaged holidays
10 Whose portrait is on the back of a £50 note
11 What was the capital of Australia before Canberra
12 What are the ingredients of a skrewdriver cocktail
13 Where is the worlds largest railway station
14 What days child is loving and giving
15 Which is the most frequently broken bone in the human body
16 Which motor manufacturers name is latin for I roll
17 Where is the most cork produced
18 Which is the only true flying mammal
19 Which cathedral has a crooked spire
20 What make of car is a Corrado
21 What was the capitol of England before London
22 Which creature can jump 100 times its own height
23 What is the emblem on the front of a Rolls Royce called
24 A chester white is a what
25 Which animal always give birth to identical twins
26 Which was the first reusable space shuttle
27 Al Gore was whose vice president
28 The worlds busiest international airport is where
29 In which year did the challenger space shuttle blow up
30 Who was the star of Knight Rider

Answers - Highlight below....

1 On the buses
2 Bedknobs and Broomsticks
3 Doris Day
4 Tarantino
5 George Harrison
6 Basketball
7 Mormons
8 British Airways and Air France
9 Thomas Cook
10 Sir Christopher Wren
11 Melbourne
12 Vodka and orange juice
13 Grand central new york
14 Friday
15 Collar bone
16 Volvo
17 Portugal
18 Bat
19 Chesterfield
20 VW
21 Winchester
22 Flea
23 Spirit of Ecstasy
24 Pig
25 Armadillo
26 Challenger
27 Bill Clinton
28 Heathrow
29 1986
30 David Hasslehoff

Quiztime Quiz 230706

1. Helios was the Greek god of what?
The Sun
2. What material forms the centre of the best cricket balls?
Cork
3. Who did Vladimir Putin succeed as President of Russia?
Boris Yeltsin
4. In which city was Gary Linekar born?
Leicester
5. Whose secret hideaway in the Arctic is called The Fortress of Solitude?
Superman
6. What was the original trophy in 1860 for winning the Open, a glove, a jacket or a belt?
A Belt
7. Which is the world's only completely car-free city centre?
Venice
8. Who in 2003 succeeded Jenny Bond as Royal reporter for the BBC?
Nicholas Witchell
9. Which government department is responsible for MI5?
Home Office
10. According to the Pentagon, each US Soldier in Iraq is equipped with a 'combat emplacement evacuator' - what would a normal person call it?
A Shovel
11. How many legs does a butterfly have?
Six
12. What was the first name of Ronnie Barkers character Arkright in the TV series Open All Hours?
Albert
13. If seven people meet each other and each shakes hands only once with each of the others how many handshakes will there have been?
Twenty One
14. What is the name of the bay near Glasgow that is home to Britain’s Trident Nuclear submarines?
Faslane
15. Admiral Horatio Nelson lost an eye and an arm during battles - which did he lose first his eye or his arm?
Eye in 1794 at Calvi during French Revolutionary war, Arm in 1797 at battle of Cape St. Vincent
16. Which wine is named after the range of hills in N. Central Italy between Florence and Siena?
Chianti
17. Which people were led by Genghis Khan?
Mongols
18. What in criminal slang are 'Darbies'?
Handcuffs
19. Which African animal kills the most people?
Crocodile
20. Quiztime Survey Question - Top Answer Required - Name a non-living object which has feet?
Table / Statue / Chair or Stool / Tape Measure or Ruler / Socks

21. Which Year - 22-year-old Spanish golfer Seve Ballesteros became only the second golfer from continental Europe to win the British Open championship, Broadcast music was banned in Iran by the Ayotallah Khomeini who said that it corrupted youth, Britain's first nudist beach was established in Brighton, Sebastian Coe broke his third world record in six weeks at Zurich when he set a new best for the 1500 metres and America's Skylab 1 returned to earth after 34,981 orbits and six years in space?
1979
22. How Many Different Euro Banknotes Are There?
Seven (5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 & 500)
23. What event is baker Thomas Fairylore associated with?
Started great fire of London
24. What job does an 'optical illuminator enhancer' do?
Window Cleaner
25. What do the letters TIR on the rear of heavy goods vehicles stand for?
Transport International Routiers
26. What relation is Super-Hero 'Supergirl' to 'Superman'?
Cousin
27. Who was the first sponsor of the football league in 1983?
Canon
28. If you were born on the date that Britain and France declared war on Germany to start World War Two, what sign of zodiac would you be?
Virgo (3rd September 1939)
29. Which animal, often kept as a pet, is known as the Sand Rat or Desert Kangeroo?
Gerbil
30. How much did the watch sell for in the episode of Fools and Horses when they became rich?
£6 million
31. At a depth of 12,391 ft, which country is the home to the World's deepest mine?
South Africa
32. Who was pictured on the reverse of the last English pound notes?
Sir Isaac Newton
33. If you sailed the River Rhine, how many countries would you travel through?
Three - Switzerland, Germany & Holland
34. Which insurance company are currently being asked to "quote me happy"?
Norwich Union
35. What type of creature is an 'Indian Runner' - a bird, an insect or a reptile?
A Bird - type of duck
36. Which three items does Bob The Builder carry in his belt?
Spanner, Hammer and Screwdriver
37. On which Mediterranean island is the seaport of Famagusta?
Cyprus
38. In literature, who owned The Spyglass Inn?
Long John Silver
39. How many Carry On Films did Barbara Windsor star in - 6, 7 or 8?
Eight
40. Where would you find 5 pieces of wood at each end of a chain?
Cricket pitch

Tiebreaker - How long is the world record for juggling 3 objects without dropping any of them?
Terry Cole of the UK juggled 3 objects for 11hours 4min 22 sec in 1995

What did Sir Peter Teazle do in 1787, that Cardinal Beaufort did in 1805 and Captain Cuttle did in 1922? - Won the Derby - they were all horses!

Today's The Day - 24th July

24th July 2006

Religious Events today...
Feast day of St Christina the Astonishing,
St Boris or Romanus,
St Declan,
St Christina of Bolsena,
and St Gleb or David.

History Test for July 24th
Who was the first man to swim the English Channel, but later drowned during an attempt to swim across Niagara Falls today in 1883? -Captain Matthew Webb
Born today in 1802 who wrote the novel 'The Count of Monte Cristo'? -Alexandre Dumas (père)
Which former boxing champion and nightclub owner was shot dead today in 1965? -Freddie Mills
Against which newspaper did novelist Jeffrey Archer win a libel action today in 1987? -The Daily Star
Born today in 1895, which novelist called his autobiography `Goodbye To All That'? -Robert Graves

Events today...
1534 Jacques Cartier landed at Gaspe in Canada and claimed the territory for France.
1704 Admiral Sir George Rooke captured Gibraltar from the Spaniards during the War of the Spanish Succession.
1824 The first ever public opinion poll was conducted in Wilmington, Delaware, to judge the voting intentions in the forthcoming US Presidential elections.
1851 The window tax in Britain was abolished.
1862 5th US President Martin van Buren died in Kinderhook, New York.
1883 Matthew Webb, the first man to swim the English Channel, was drowned during an attempt to swim the rapids above Niagara Falls.
1925 At Guy's Hospital in London six-year-old Patricia Cheeseman became the first person to be successfully treated with insulin.
1936 The Speaking Clock was introduced by the GPO.
1957 Death of Sacha Guitry, French actor and dramatist.
1965 Death of Constance Bennett, US film actress.
1965 Night-club owner Freddie Mills, a former British boxing champion, was found shot dead in his car in Soho.
1974 Death of James Chadwick, English physicist.
1975 Unemployment in the UK stood at 1,147,633, the highest for 35 years.
1980 English actor and comedian Peter Sellers died.
1983 47-year-old David Kitchen of Bristol celebrated his birthday with a meeting with six of seven brothers he never knew he had, after discovering an adoption certificate in his late father's documents; he was due to meet the seventh at a later date.
1984 Britain's first telephone healthline was launched in Gloucester in an attempt to make better use of the National Health Service. Similar schemes were to be launched in Exeter and Tower Hamlets, London.
1984 Home Secretary Leon Brittan announced that a new European Community passport would be introduced by 1987. He claimed that the new passports would speed up passport issues, save money and reduce delays at frontiers.
1984 Suzette Charles became the first black Miss America after taking over from Vanessa Williams who resigned after eleven months in office when nude photographs of her appeared in Penthouse.
1987 £500,000. Worth of damages was awarded to Geoffrey Archer, the millionaire author, following the success of his libel action against the Star newspaper. It was alleged that Archer, also deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party at the time, had paid Monica Coughlan, a prostitute, £70 for sex. Archer denied this, although he did admit that he had paid her £2,000 to take a holiday and remove herself from the scandal. It was subsequently proved that Archer had committed purjury at the trial and he was sent to prison as a result.
1988 Iraqi troops started to withdraw from Iran after an offensive aimed at bolstering their position in peace talks.
1988 Ayrton Senna won the German Grand Prix, with McLaren team-mate Alain Prost in second.
1988 Spaniard Pedro Delgado won the Tour de France despite a positive drugs test. The international jury for the tour had decided to take no action as the offending drug had not been banned by the International Cycling Union.
1989 Police announced that a Gauguin painting worth £1 million was stolen from a cargo hangar at Heathrow airport. The picture had disappeared from a British Airways storage area a month previously but the owners only reported the theft two days previously.
1990 A Catholic nun and three policemen were killed by an IRA landmine hidden at the side of a road in County Armagh.
1992 A former convict claimed on American television that he and three other men had been involved in the paid-for-murder of Jimmy Hoffa, head of the Teamsters trucking union - an alleged underworld figure - who disappeared in 1975 and was never seen again. Hoffa, the subject of a recent film starring Jack Nicholson, was apparently drugged and thrown into Lake Michigan, the man's claim passed a lie-detector test.
1992 Actor Sean Connery joined the all-time movie greats when he was given the American Cinématheque award, one of only seven actors to have won the award.
1995 A streaker who ran across the eighteenth green at the end of the Open Golf Championship at St Andrews was fined £250 by Cupar Sheriff Court.
1995 A live Second World War shell was taken from a pub in Colchester and detonated by bomb disposal experts. It had been used as a doorstop for six years.
1995 The BBC were set to ask Noel Edmonds and Mr Blobby to present the National Lottery live draw on Saturday evenings to boost the show's flagging ratings.
1995 The Southern Cross, a ship with 800 passengers on board, became the first cruise liner in more than 40 years to sail into the Port of Londonderry in Northern Ireland.
1995 A murder trial at Winchester Crown Court was halted after jurors complained that they could not concentrate because defence lawyers kept watching them, pointing in their whispering.
1998 Keizo Obuchi became Japan’s new Prime Minister after a landslide victory at the Polls.
1998 RMT rail workers began a three day strike.
1998 Chris Smith announced that the Government would be giving cash to museums and by the year 2000 there would be free admission for everyone.
1999 Mohammed IV took over the Moroccan throne, suceeding his father Hussein II who died of a heart attack the previous day.
2003 The US released photographs of what it said are the bodies of Uday and Qusay Hussein in a move to prove they were dead.
2003 The French parliament passed a controversial pension reform plan, which provoked a wave of strikes.
2003 Rules were being eased to let Russians have a drink before driving - but critics saw it as a step in the wrong direction.
2003 Farmer Tony Martin from Norfolk was moved to an unknown secret location from his prison in Suffolk prior to his release.
2003 Herschelle Gibbs and Graeme Smith scored centuries as South Africa hammered England on day one of the first Test.
2003 Bernhard Langer was chosen to lead the European team in the 2004 Ryder Cup.
2003 West Ham's Joe Cole and Rufus Brevett were charged with misconduct over incidents during the match against Bolton the previous season.
2003 Man City signed Dutch midfielder Paul Bosvelt from Feyenoord on a two-year deal.
2003 Aston Villa signed Gavin McCann for £2.25m from Sunderland in a three-year deal.
2004 A Mexican judge refused to order the arrest of former President Luis Echeverria on "genocide" charges.
2004 Rock band U2 announced that they would rush-release their new album on "iTunes" if pirated material turned up on the internet.
2004 Singer Courtney Love surrendered to Los Angeles police, two weeks after being branded a fugitive.
2004 England ended day three of the first Test 223 runs ahead of West Indies, despite Shiv Chanderpaul's 128 not out.
2004 Man Utd's Gary and Phil Neville agreed new five-year contracts with the club.
2005 Lance Armstong bowed out of cycling with his seventh-straight Tour de France title.
2005 Comedy drama Desperate Housewives was named programme of the year by the TV Critics' Association.
BIRTHDAYS (for 24 July 2006)
Simon Bolivar, 223 (born 24 July 1783)
Liberator of six South American countries
Alexandre Dumas pere, 204 (born 24 July 1802)
French author of 'The Three Musketeers'
Frank Wedekind, 142 (born 24 July 1864)
German dramatist
E.F. Benson, 139 (born 24 July 1867)
English author
Amelia Earhart, 108 (born 24 July 1898)
First woman to fly solo over the Atlantic in 1928. Her plane was lost over the Pacific in 1937
Nora Swinburne, 104 (born 24 July 1902)
British actress on the stage from 1914. She has appeared in several films
Wilfred Josephs, 79 (born 24 July 1927)
Composer of concert works, film and television scores. He left his career in dentistry and has composed some very successful TV themes, including 'The Great War', 'I Claudius' and 'A Voyage Round My Father'. His film scores include 'Bomb in the High Stree
Peter Yates, 77 (born 24 July 1929)
Film director and producer. His work includes 'Summer Holiday' with Cliff Richard in 1962. Later on came 'Bullitt', 'Breaking Away', 'The Dresser' and 'Hard Rain'
Les Reed, 71 (born 24 July 1935)
Composer, pianist, arranger and musical director. Just some of Les Reed's songs include 'Does Anybody Miss Me' for Shirley Bassey; 'There's A Kind of Hush' for Herman's Hermits; 'Tell Me When' for the Applejacks; 'It's Not Unusual' and 'Delilah' for Tom J
Heinz (Burt), 64 (born 24 July 1942)
The Tornados. He was a founder member of the Tornados who had a huge hit with 'Telstar'. He went solo and had a top ten hit with 'Just Like Eddie'
Chris Smith, 55 (born 24 July 1951)
Labour politician

GUESS THE YEAR
Death of Joe De Rita, US comedian.
Death of John Bolton, English astronomer.
Death of Fred Weick, US aeronautical engineer.
Death of Masuji Ibuse, Japanese writer.
Death of Jean Negulesco, Romanian-born US film director.
A twenty-five-year-old female gorilla called Bafia who had lost her sex drive was to become the subject of the first European attempt to produce gorilla offspring by artificial insemination.
Death of Raul Gardini, Italian businessman.
The British Museum announced that security was to be tightened after thieves stole over forty priceless Roman coins dating from the reign of Diocletian (285- 305AD).
A council tenant from Loughton, Essex, used the red rinds from thousands of Edam cheeses to insulate his loft.
A British Rail announcer bungled by telling three hundred people that their mystery trip from Hull would end at Knaresborough.
Bognor and Eastbourne announced that they were to stage rival birdman contests to see how far contestants could fly unpowered.
Death of Alfred Manessier, French painter.

....and we ask you to ....GUESS THE YEAR
1993

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1970's One Hit Wonders

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10 THINGS WE DIDN'T KNOW THIS TIME LAST WEEK

Snippets harvested from the week's news, chopped, sliced and diced for your weekend convenience.

1. British bathrooms usually have two taps instead of one because, historically, British plumbing provides hot and cold water at different pressures, meaning mixer taps are more difficult to fit.

2. A professional pronouncer is called an "orthoepist" - and it can be pronounced three different ways.

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3. There are 60 Acacia Avenues in the UK.

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4. If left alone, 70% of birthmarks marks gradually fade away.

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5. Kenneth Clarke invented road humps.

6. We sleep more deeply when we sleep alone - but when sharing, women sleep more soundly than men.

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7. Gritters come out in hot weather too - to spread rock dust, which stops roads melting.

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8. The exploits of the SAS parachuting dog mentioned in last week's 10 things were, in fact, a ruse. Rob the collie did little more than cheer up ground staff, according to one of the last surviving officers from his regiment.

9. A morris dancing group is called a side.

10. Jarvis Cocker watches CBeebies and rates Barnaby Bear but not the Fimbles.

[Sources, where stories are not linked - 1: G2, 21 July. 5. The Scotsman, 18 July. 8: Daily Telegraph, 21 July. 9. G2, 20 July. 10. Radio Times.]

Quiz-a-Day

1 In which film did Lee Marvin throw boiling coffee in Gloria Grahame’s face?
THE BIG HEAT
2 Which gas is manufactured by the Haber process?
AMONIA
3 Who owned the High Chaparral ranch?
JOHN CANNON
4 Two musical notes have no actual flats, can you name them?
C or F
5 If a woman is nubile what does it mean?
MARRIAGEABLE
6 Would a man love an ODALISQUE Yes or No?
YES (Female slave)
7 What does a MYCOLOGIST study?
FUNGI
8 Which wild west Outlaw’s real name was Henry Patrick McCarty?
BILLY THE KID
9 “The great masses of the people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one” is a quote from which infamous 20th century leader?
ADOLF HITLER
10 Which heavy metal band had hits in the 1980’s with the following songs : Run to the hills, Can I play with madness, The evil that men do?
IRON MAIDEN
11 Who sailed away to die on HMS Bellerophon?
NAPOLEAN
12 What was the actual purpose of a gargoyle?
WATER SPOUT
13 On the TV satire show “Have I got news for you” what stood in to replace Roy Hattersley as a panel member?
TUB OF LARD
14 What were once called “Love Apples”?
TOMATOES
15 What are you doing if you are “TILTHING”?
CULTIVATING
16 What originally gave Foolscap paper its name?
THE WATERMARK
17 In which sport is there something named after Ulrich Salchow?
ICE SKATING
18 In a famous Dickens novel who was helped financially by Abel Magwitch?
PIP
19 After which famous engineer is the university at Uxbridge named?
BRUNEL
20 If ursine is bear like and equine is horse like what is Vulpine?
FOX LIKE
21 Devils Apron & Purple laver are types of :- Bread, Tomato, Seaweed?
SEAWEED
22 Who was the father of David :- Zachariah, Absalom, Jesse?
JESSE
23 Under what nickname did Albert de Salvo become infamous?
THE BOSTON STRANGLER
24 True or False : Vernal means to do with spring?
TRUE
25 What name is given to the metal discs in the rim of a tambourine?
JINGLES
26 In Gaelic legend who had a dog called Bran?
FINGAL
27 Who played Eliza Doolittle in the stage version of MY Fair Lady?
JULIE ANDREWS
28 What are Ossicles and Osselets?
BONES
29 Soling, Star & Finn are categories in which sport?
YACHTING
30 Which device allows a cars driving wheels to turn at different speeds when cornering?
DIFFERENTIAL
31 Which large object was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930?
PLUTO
32 Disc Jockey Alan Freed is credited with coining the popular phrase of which type of music?
ROCK ’n’ ROLL
33 In poker what is the best hand :- Flush, Run (Straight), Three of a kind?
FLUSH
34 Which King of England’s mother and son were both beheaded?
JAMES I’s
35 To what is the French word “Chambrè” applied?
WINE
36 What was the name of the famous detective created by Raymond Chandler?
PHILLIP MARLOWE
37 To what does the adjective “PONTIC” apply?
THE BLACK SEA
38 What term is used to measure the fineness of yarns?
DENIER
39 What would you do with a CHARLOCK :- Eat it : Play it : Wear it?
EAT IT (Herb)
40 What is the 2nd of February called in the USA?
GROUND HOG DAY

Today's The Day - 23rd July

23rd July 2006
National Day of Ethiopia
National Day of The United Arab Republic.

Religious Events today...
Feast day of St Anne or Susanna,
St John Cassian,
St Romula and her Companions,
St Apollinaris of Ravenna,
The Three Wise Men,
St Bridget of Sweden,
and St Liborius.

History Test for July 23rd
Today in 1962, principal photography began on the movie classic `Whatever Happened to Baby Jane'. Who were the two female leads? -Joan Crawford and Bette Davis
Name the American director of the epic silent film 'The Birth of a Nation', who died today in 1948. -D.W. Griffith
Born today in 1913 who was leader of the British Labour Party from 1980 to 1983? -Michael Foot
Who was the best man when Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson today in 1986? -Prince Edward
Born today in 1953, who was the first cricketer to bowl left- and right-armed in a test match? -Graham Gooch

Events today...
1745 Charles Stuart, the Young Pretender, landed in the Hebrides.
1757 Death of Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer.
1864 Dr Livingstone returned to England.
1875 Death of Isaac Singer, US inventor.
1885 18th US President Ulysses S.Grant died of cancer at Mount McGregor.
1940 The Local Defence Volunteers were renamed the Home Guard by Winston Churchill.
1948 Death of D. W. Griffith, US film director.
1952 King Farouk of Egypt was deposed by General Neguib.
1955 Donald Campbell set a new water speed record of 202.32 mph in his Bluebird.
1962 US TV programmes were broadcast live to 16 countries throughout Europe for the first time, with an estimated audience of around 200 million.
1967 In the heat of the mountain stage of the Tour de France, British cyclist Tony Simpson, 29, collapsed and died.
1973 Death of Eddie Rickenbacker, US World War I fighter pilot.
1979 Broadcast music was banned in Iran by the Ayotallah Khomeini who said that it corrupted youth.
1983 It was reported that a New Orleans woman who claimed she ordered fried chicken in a fast food restaurant but got a large batter-fried mouse had filed a lawsuit seeking $225,000 in damages.
1983 It was reported that night-club owner Peter Stringfellow had failed in the High Court to halt the showing of TV commercials for chips called Stringfellows; the same name as his exclusive night-club.
1983 It was reported that the Government was considering abolishing the half pence piece.
1984 The Oakland Zoo in California hired an architectural firm to build a £1 million love nest for elephants that would be conducive to mating.
1986 Prince Andrew married Lady Sarah Ferguson in Westminster Abbey, and was created Duke of York.
1988 Bloody anti-Government riots in Rangoon forced Ne Win, Burma's leader for 26 years, out of office.
1988 Death of Jahangir, Pakistani cricketer.
1988 Six people were drowned, with a further twenty-five missing, when a Japanese submarine collided with a chartered fishing boat in Tokyo Bay.
1989 Barbecues were banned in Sherwood Forest, Nottingham, after the fire brigade described it as a tinder box
1989 Former Welsh guardsman Simon Weston, who was badly burnt during the Falklands war, wing walked on a Boeing Super Stearman at the International Air Tattoo in an attempt to raise money for the Weston Spirit charity.
1989 Greg Lemond of the US won the 86thTour de France, covering the distance at an average of 33.8mph, the fastest tour speed ever.
1989 US golfer Mark Calcavecchia won the Open Championship at Royal Troon.
1990 Gardner Merchant, the contract caterers, said in a survey that chips were named by 59% of children as one of their favourite foods. Runners up were pizzas and hamburgers, with salads second favourite overall among girls. Fewer than one child in eight considered how healthy a dish was before deciding what to eat.
1990 It was announced that a project to assess the extent of bullying in schools and find ways of preventing it was to be launched in Sheffield in April, 1991. The project would cost £150,000 and be financed partly by the government and the Gulbenkian Foundation.
1992 The claims that Cabinet Minister David Mellor's mistress Antonia de Sancha was a 'class act' with ambitions to play Shakespeare were offset by reports that she had appeared as a one-legged prostitute in a soft porn movie called 'The Pieman'.
1992 The Foundation for Sport and the Arts gave a £100,000 grant to the project to rebuild Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
1993 A twenty-five-year-old female gorilla called Bafia who had lost her sex drive was to become the subject of the first European attempt to produce gorilla offspring by artificial insemination.
1993 Death of Raul Gardini, Italian businessman.
1993 The British Museum announced that security was to be tightened after thieves stole over forty priceless Roman coins dating from the reign of Diocletian (285- 305AD).
1995 It was announced that the National Trust was to appeal to Japan to help limit the numbers of Japanese tourists visiting Beatrix Potter's cottage in the Lake District.
1995 A snail owned by six-year-old Carl Bramham of Norfolk, set a new world snail-racing record. The snail, Archie, covered the 13-inch course in two minutes - beating the old world record by 20 seconds.
1995 The Shadow Home Secretary, Jack Straw, wanted persistent young offenders to suffer a weekend in jail as a deterrent and to stop them embarking on a lifetime of crime.
1995 A survey of accountants showed that their ideal woman was Liz Hurley, well ahead of Joanna Lumley or the Princess of Wales. 80% would drink beer from a bottle in a pub, the Mazda MX-5 was voted the most popular car, their favourite holiday was skiing, favoured sport, golf - followed by football. And they preferred Giorgio Armani suits.
1998 The first new British Driving Licence was issued. The new licence was the size of a credit card and had a photograph of the driver. Civil Liberty organisations feared it would become an official Identity Card.
1998 Secret papers were brought to light, which carried details of plots to kill Adolf Hitler.
1999 Death of King Hussein
2003 The Pentagon weighed up whether to make public the pictures of Saddam Hussein's sons to prove that they were dead.
2003 Tehran admitted for the first time that it was holding senior al-Qaeda members - but did not identify them.
2003 A senior German diplomat was in Mali requesting help to locate 15 Western tourists missing for five months.
2003 Italy faced the risk of power cuts as a heat wave caused a surge in demand for air conditioners.
2003 James Gibson won Britain's first World Swimming Championships gold medal since 1975.
2003 Argentine striker Luciano Figueroa agreed a five-year contract with Birmingham City.
2003 Tyler Hamilton clinched his first ever Tour de France stage win despite a broken collar bone.
2003 Sunderland accepted a £2.25m bid from Aston Villa for midfielder Gavin McCann.
2003 Defender Nigel Winterburn quit after 17 years of playing top-flight football.
2004 Lavish celebrations marked the reopening of a historic bridge, destroyed in the war in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
2004 Ex-cabinet minister Peter Mandelson said he would bring a "commitment to reform" as the next European commissioner.
2004 Outspoken chef Gordon Ramsay signed a three-year deal with Channel 4 for a new prime-time show.
2004 Fulham signed striker Tomasz Radzinski from Everton, subject to a medical.
2004 Ashley Giles took 3 for 58 as West Indies trailed England by 360 runs after day two of the first Test at Lord's.
2004 Danny McGuire equaled the Super League record for tries in a season as Leeds demolished St Helens.
2004 Millwall midfielder Tim Cahill completed his move to Everton.
2005 Egypt's president pledged to hunt down those behind the Sharm al-Sheikh bombings which killed 88 people.
2005 An LA court ordered two remaining members of The Doors to stop using the name for a new version of the band.
2005 McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen beat Jenson Button's BAR by nearly half a second in qualifying at the German Grand Prix.

BIRTHDAYS (for 23 July 2006)
Albert Warner, 122 (born 23 July 1884)
movie producer ("Warner Bros.").
Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, 120 (born 23 July 1886)
British aviator
Raymond Chandler, 118 (born 23 July 1888)
American novelist, who was brought up in England from the age of seven and educated at Dulwich College in south east London, before going to California in 1912. The creator of Philip Marlowe and novels such as 'The Big Sleep'
Elspeth Huxley, 99 (born 23 July 1907)
Novelist and travel writer
Michael Wilding, 94 (born 23 July 1912)
(Deceased) British actor who, at one stage or another, was married to Elizabeth Taylor and Margaret Leighton
Coral Browne, 93 (born 23 July 1913)
(Deceased) Australian actress who was married to Vincent Price. She appeared with Beryl Reid in the film 'The Killing of Sister George' and on television in 'An Englishman Abroad' by Alan Bennett
Michael Foot, 93 (born 23 July 1913)
Former Labour leader, journalist, author, pacifist and a long-running supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Danny La Rue, 79 (born 23 July 1927)
Entertainer and female impersonator
Andy Mackay, 60 (born 23 July 1946)
Roxy Music
David Essex, 59 (born 23 July 1947)
Singer and actor, who won the lead part in the stage musical 'Godspell'. He then appeared in two films, 'That'll Be the Day' and 'Stardust’. In the mid-1970s he had hits with 'Hold Me Close', 'Gonna Make You a Star' and 'Lamplight’, among others.
Graham Gooch, 53 (born 23 July 1953)
English cricketer
Martin Gore, 45 (born 23 July 1961)
Depeche Mode, who had their first big hit in 1981 with 'Dreaming of Me'. They continue to release albums, including 'Songs of Faith & Devotion' in 1993

GUESS THE YEAR
30-year-old Dr.David Owen became the government’s youngest member.
Alec Rose landed at Portsmouth in Lively Lady, having sailed single-handed around the world.
Jane Asher stunned listeners to the BBC radio programme Dee Time, hosted by Simon Dee, with the news that her engagement to Beatle Paul McCartney was off.
Barclay's Bank merged with Martin's Bank.
Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Church's traditional teaching on (and condemnation of) birth control.
Don Jones, a 17-stone Californian state public defender, was fined for being too fat.
In the UK The Countryside Act, allowing local authorities to designate country parks, came into force.
Governor Reagan of California announced his decision to run for President.
Pirate radio station Radio Free London started broadcasting.
Mia Farrow divorced Frank Sinatra.
Russian troops invaded Czechoslovakia.
In Bogota, Pope Paul VI arrived in Columbia on the first visit by a Pope to Latin America.

....and we ask you to ....GUESS THE YEAR
1968

0 = SC in H = Snowball''s Chance in Hell

1 = AN of H = Atomic Number of Hydrogen
1 = A is AFD = April is April Fool's Day
1 = B in the HWT in the B = Bird in the Hand Worth Two in the Bush
1 = CA in M = Carbon Atom in Methane
1 = DAAT = Day At A Time
1 = EOHFPPE = Eyed One Horned Flying Purple People Eater
1 = E on a C = Eye on a Cyclops
1 = F in the G = Foot in the Grave
1 = GL for M = Giant Leap for Mankind
1 = GTDA = Good Turn Deserves Another
1 = H on a U = Horn on a Unicorn
1 = KE(B) = Kelly's Eye (Bingo)
1 = KK on the ESB = King Kong on the Empire State Building
1 = MW to MWHD = Man Went to Mow With His Dog
1 = SC in DP = Single Calorie in Diet Pepsi
1 = SS = Singular Sensation
1 = SS for a M = Small Step for a Man
1 = SUP is a B = Stroke Under Par is a Birdie
1 = T that OK = Time that Opportunity Knocks
1 = W on a U = Wheel on a Unicycle
1 = W that PPPECK = Wife that Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater Couldn't Keep
1 = if by L = if by Land
1 = the LN = the Loneliest Number
1 = FBOHZIAG = Followed By One Hundred Zeroes In A Googol

2 = # it T to T = # it Takes to Tango
2 = A-BP in a BM = All-Beef Patties in a Big Mac
2 = BG = Brothers Grimm
2 = CA in E = Carbon Atoms in Ethane
2 = CB as B as O = Can Be as Bad as One
2 = C in the T by CD = Cities in the Tale by Charles Dickens
2 = E of E = Elizabeths of England
2 = G and a S = Girls and a Sailor (movie)
2 = G of V = Gentlemen of Verona
2 = H are BTO = Heads are Better Than One
2 = H in a W = Halves in a Whole
2 = H of C = Houses of Congress
2 = H on a PMPY = Heads on a Push Me Pull You
2 = is C, T is a C = Is Company, Three is a Crowd
2 = L in the HB = Lungs in the Human Body
2 = M for SS = Mules for Sister Sarah
2 = N in a D = Nickels in a Dime
2 = O in a DP = Outs in a Double Play
2 = PJP = Pope John Pauls
2 = P in a B = Pieces in a Bikini
2 = P in a D = Parts in a Duet
2 = P in a P = Peas in a Pod
2 = P in a Q = Pints in a Quart
2 = Q in a H-D = Quarters in a Half-Dollar
2 = SP in the N = Ships Passing in the Night
2 = SUP is an E = Strokes Under Par is an Eagle
2 = S of a C = Sides of a Card / Conflict / Coin
2 = S of a LT = Shakes of a Lamb's Tail
2 = S to ES = Sides to Every Story
2 = TD, AAPIAPT = Turtle Doves, And A Partridge In A Pear Tree
2 = TT = Ton Tessie
2 = T on TRFL = Toes on Tyranoaurus Rex Front Legg
2 = T and a P in a PT = Turtledoves and a Partridge in a Pear Tree (song)
2 = T the PAR = Times the Postman Always Rings
2 = W on a M = Wheels on a Motorbike
2 = WDM a R = Wrongs Don't Make a Right
2 = WS in C = Wicked Stepsisters in Cinderella
2 = YB the M = Two Years Before the Mast
2 = if by S = if by Sea
2 = of each A on NA = of each Animal on Noah's Ark
2 = GOAR = Grooves On A Record
2 = G for EB = Girls for Every Boy (song)

3 = BMSHTR! = Blind Mice, See How They Run!
3 = BGG = Billy Goats Gruff
3 = B in a T = Books in a Trilogy / Bases in a Triangle
3 = B in G = Bears in Goldilocks
3 = B in L of the R = Books in Lord of the Rings
3 = B in the HE = Bones in the Human Ear
3 = B of the USG = Branches of the United States Government
3 = BS (C, E, A) = Bronte sisters (Charlotte, Emily, Anne)
3 = CA in P = Carbon Atoms in Propane
3 = C in a F = Coins in a Fountain
3 = D for J in the B of the W = Days for Jonah in the Belly of the Whale
3 = FH = French Hens (song)
3 = D of the C = Days of the Condor
3 = F in a Y = Feet in a Yard
3 = F of E = Faces of Eve
3 = G in a HT = Goals in a Hat Trick
3 = GNM = Guys Named Mike (movie)
3 = H on the D C = Heads on the Dog Cerberus
3 = LF in an IBP = Little Fishes in an Itty Bitty Pond
3 = LKTLTM = Little Kittens They Lost Their Mittens
3 = L M from S = Little Maids from School
3 = L of M = Legs of Man (in the Isle of Man flag)
3 = LP = Little Pigs
3 = L on a T = Legs on a Tripod
3 = MINPS = Mile Island Nuclear Power Station
3 = M and a B = Men and a Baby (movie)
3 = ME = Minute Egg
3 = M in a L = 3 Miles in a League
3 = M in a B (JKJ) = Men in a Boat (Jerome K Jerome)
3 = M in a TR a DD = Men in a Tub Rub a Dub Dub
3 = OKCF = Old King Cole's Fiddlers
3 = P in a BS = Pieces in a Business Suit
3 = P in a HG = Periods in a Hockey Game
3 = P into which AG was D = Parts into which Ancient Gaul was Divided
3 = P of an I = Parts of an Insect
3 = PT = Point Turn
3 = R in a TRC = Rings in a Three Ring Circus
3 = SLM and C = Stooges, Larry, Moe and Curly
3 = S and YO = Strikes and You're Out
3 = S in a T = Sides in a Triangle
3 = S make an O = Strikes make an Out
3 = S of CC = Ships of Christopher Columbus
3 = S on CFV = Ships on Columbus' First Voyage
3 = S on the B of an I = Segments on the Body of an Insect
3 = S to the W = Sheets to the Wind
3 = SYO at the OBG = Strikes You're Out at the Old Ball Game
3 = TAL = Times a Lady
3 = T(FS and HG) = Trinity (Father Son and Holy Ghost)
3 = WM at B = Wise Men at Bethlehem
3 = W on my W = Wheels on my Wagon (country song)
3 = W in M = Witches in Macbeth
3 = W on a T = Wheels on a Tricycle
3 = Y and a COD = Yards and a Cloud of Dust
3 = on a M = on a Match
3.6 = Mj in a KwH = Megajoules in a Kilowatt Hour

4 = and TBB in a P = and Twenty Blackbirds Baked in a Pie
4 = B in a W = Balls in a Walk
4 = CA in B = Carbon Atoms in Butane
4 = CB = Calling Birds (song)
4 = C in a Q = Cups in a Quart
4 = C in the FF = Children in the Famous Five
4 = C in a HH = Chambers in a Human Heart
4 = F on MR = Faces on Mount Rushmore
4 = GM in C = Gang Members in China
4 = H of ND = Horsemen of Notre Dame
4 = H of a H = Hooves on a Horse
4 = H on the A = Horsemen of the Apocalypse (movie)
4 = I in M = Is in Mississippi
4 = LCAL = Leaf Clovers Are Lucky
4 = LC that I'm LO = Leaf Clover that I'm Looking Over
4 = L in a DW = Letters in a Dirty Word
4 = L on a LC = Leaves on a Lucky Clover
4 = M in a S = Movements in a Symphony
4 = M of the B = Members of the Beatles
4 = M with TD = Months with Thirty Days
4 = P on MR = Presidents on Mount Rushmore
4 = Q in a FG = Quarters in a Football Game
4 = Q in a G = Quarts in a Gallon
4 = S in M = Ss in Mississippi
4 = S and SYA = Score and Seven Years Ago
4 = S in a D of C = Suits in a Deck of Cards
4 = S in a P of C = Suits in a Pack of Cards
4 = S in a R = Sides in a Rectangle
4 = S in a S = Sides in a Square
4 = S in a Y = Seasons in a Year
4 = S on a V = Strings on a Violin
4 = TFDREP = Terms FDR Elected President
4 = W and a F = Weddings and a Funeral
4 = W on a C = Wheels on a Car
4 = Y in an O = Years in an Olympiad
4 = Y in one PT = Years in one Presidential Term
4 = HOTA = Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

5 = B in the T = Books in the Torah
5 = CA in P = Carbon Atoms in Pentane
5 = C in CA = Countries in Central America
5 = D in Y = Dice in Yahtzee
5 = D in a ZC = Digits in a Zip Code
5 = EP = Easy Pieces
5 = FTE of B = Foot Two Eyes of Blue
5 = F on a H = Fingers on a Hand
5 = GLOM = Great Lakes Of Michigan
5 = GR = Golden Rings (song)
5 = MB in J and the B = Magic Beans in Jack and the Beanstalk
5 = OCIQT = O' Clock Is Quitting Time
5 = P in a N = Pennies in a Nickel
5 = R on the OF = Rings on the Olympic Flag
5 = S in a P = Sides in a Pentagon
5 = S in the SC = Stars in the Southern Cross
5 = S of the P = Sides of the Pentagon
5 = Sp = Spice Powder
5 = SM = Shaolin Masters (movie)
5 = T on a HF = Toes on a Human Foot
5 = V in the A = Vowels in the Alphabet
5 = W in the A = Words in the Answer
5 = W in a B = Weeks in a Balloon (movie)
5 = YM of the SE = Year Mission of the Starship Enterprise

6 = BC = Brandenburg Concertos
6 = A of the A = Avenues of the Americas
6 = CA in H = Carbon Atoms in Hexane
6 = D in a PC = Digits in a Post(al) Code (in England)
6 = D of C = Days of Creation
6 = D of S = Degrees of Separation
6 = D of the C = Days of the Condor (movie)
6 = D, 7N = Days, 7 Nights (movie)
6 = F in a F = Feet in a Fathom
6 = FU = Feet Underground
6 = F over T = Flags over Texas
6 = G a-L = Geese a-Laying (song)
6 = GS = Gilled Shark
6 = HD of O for RC = Holy Days of Obligation for Roman Catholics
6 = HW (TLTH) = Henry's Wives (Two Lost Their Heads)
6 = ITBB (LC) = Impossible Things Before Breakfast (Lewis Carroll)
6 = L on an I = Legs on an Insect
6 = P in a P = Pigs in a Poke
6 = P on a PT = Pockets on a Pool Table
6 = S in a H = Sides in a Hexagon
6 = S on a C = Sides on a Cube
6 = S on a D = Sides on a Die
6 = TZ in the US = Time Zones in the United States
6 = V in the EL = Vowels in the English Language
6 = W of H the E = Wives of Henry the Eighth
6 = of O and a HD of the O = of One and a Half Dozen of the Other
6 = Z in a M = Zeroes in a Million

7 = AM = Angry men (movie)
7 = P of W = Pillars of Wisdom
7 = A of M = Ages of Man
7 = B for SB = Brides for Seven Brothers (movie)
7 = C in a R = Colors in a Rainbow
7 = C on the E = Continents on the Earth
7 = DS = Deadly Sins
7 = D in SW = Dwarfs in Snow White
7 = D in a TN = Digits in a Telephone Number
7 = H of R = Hills of Rome
7 = K of F in HP = Kinds of Fruit in Hawaiian Punch
7 = LGS in the BS = Little Girls Sitting in the Back Seat
7 = P for B in S = Points for Black in Snooker
7 = P for a TD = Points for a Touch Down
7 = P in a WPT = Players in a Water Polo Team
7 = S a-S = Swans a-Swimming (song)
7 = S of S the S = Seas of Sinbad the Sailor
7 = S on a FPP = Sides on a Fifty Pence Piece
7 = V of S = Voyages of Sinbad (movie)
7 = W of the AW = Wonders of the Ancient World
7 = WOTW = Wonders Of The World
7 = Y in a S = Years in a septennial
7 = Y of BL for B a M = Years of Bad Luck for Breaking a Mirror
7 FLARBM = Family Lamentations at Ridyah Bar Mitzvah

8 = A on an O = Arms on an Octopus
8 = B in a B = Bits in a Byte = Bits in a Buck
8 = D a W (B) = Days a Week (Beatles)
8 = D of H = Days of Hanukkah
8 = GA in 1Y for MJ = Grammy Awards in 1 Year for Michael Jackson
8 = GT in a LBC = Great Tomatoes in a Little Bitty Can
8 = KH of E = King Henrys of England
8 = L on a S = Legs on a Spider
8 = L on an O = Legs on an Octopus
8 = M a-M = Maids a-Milking (song)
8 = POSITEL = Parts Of Speech In The English Language
8 = S in an O = Sides in an Octagon
8 = S on a SS = Sides on a Stop Sign
8 = S of F H = Signs of Fu Hsi
8 = SR = Santa's Reindeer
8 = T on an O = Tentacles on an Octopus

9 = CRM = Camptown Racetrack Miles
9 = C in a G of F = Calories in a Gram of Fat
9 = C of H in the DC = Circles of Hell in the Divine Comedy
9 = D in a ZC with the SC = Digits in a Zip Code with the Street Code
9 = GM = Greek Muses
9 = H on a H = Heads on a Hydra
9 = I in a BG = Innings in a Baseball Game
9 = J of the SC = Justices of the Supreme Court
9 = J on the USSC = Justices on the United States Supreme Court
9 = L of a C = Lives of a Cat
9 = LD = Ladies Dancing (song)
9 = L of F the C = Lives of Frits the Cat (movie)
9 = M in a HGP = Months in a Human's Gestation Period
9 = P in the SS = Planets in the Solar System
9 = S by B = Symphonies by Beethoven
9 = S in T-T-T = Squares in Tic-Tac-Toe

10 = A in the B of R = Amendments in the Bill of Rights
10 = CG to M = Commandments Given to Moses
10 = C of G = Commandments of God
10 = CR of a T = Cube Root of a Thousand; Continued Rantings of a Tantrum
10 = D in a R of Q = Dollars in a Roll of Quarters
10 = E in a D = Events in a Decathlon
10 = F in B = Frames in Bowling
10 = L a-L = Lords a-Leaping (song)
10 = LIG = Little Indian Girls
10 = LI = Little Indians
10 = PIAS = Pins In A Strike
10 = P in C = Provinces in Canada
10 = P of E = Plagues of Egypt
10 = S in a CD = Seconds in a Count Down
10 = Y in a D = Years in a Decade
10 = YW on a FV [H] = Young Women on a Fishing Vessel [Heaven]
10 = ITNOTP = Is Top Notch On The Parallels

11 = F in a C = Fathoms in a Chain
11 = H and S in KFC = Herbs and Spices in Kentucky Fried Chicken
11 = L a L (TD of C) = Lords a Leaping (Twelve Days of Christmas)
11 = P on a CT = Players on a Cricket Team
11 = P on a FT = Players on a Football Team
11 = PP = Pipers Piping (song)
11 = S in the C = States in the Confederacy

12 = A at the LS = Apostles at the Last Supper
12 = B on a T = Buttons on a Telephone
12 = C of AR = Caesars of Ancient Rome
12 = D of C = Days of Christmas
12 = DD = Drummers Drumming (song)
12 = D of J = Disciples of Jesus
12 = D of JC = Disciples of Jesus Christ
12 = E in a D = Eggs in a Dozen
12 = H to K = Hours to Kill (movie)
12 = I in a F = Inches in a Foot
12 = J on a J = Jurors on a Jury
12 = L of H = Labors of Hercules
12 = M of a J = Members of a Jury
12 = N on a C = Numbers on a Clock
12 = P on a MC = Points on a Maltese Cross
12 = S in a 300 G = Strikes in a 300 Game
12 = S of the Z = Signs of the Zodiac
12 = T of I = Tribes of Israel

13 = C in a S = Cards in a Suit
13 = H by A = Hours by Air (movie)
13 = OC = Original Colonies
13 = OC of A = Original Colonies of America
13 = P for the Q of S in H = Points for the Queen of Spades in Hearts
13 = P in a RLT = Players in a Rugby League Team
13 = S on the AF = Stripes on the American Flag
13 = in a BD = in a Baker's Dozen
13 = W in a C = Whiches in a Coven

14 = D in a F = Days in a Fortnight
14 = L in a S = Lines in a Sonnet
14 = P in WWP = Points in Woodrow Wilson's Plan
14 = S of the C = Stations of the Cross

15 = FP in T = First Point in Tennis
15 = M of F per P (AW) = Minutes of Fame per Person (Andy Warhol)
15 = M on a DMC = Men on a Dead Man's Chest
15 = PWAVG = Points Win A Volley-ball Game

16 = D in a O = Drams in a Ounce
16 = O in a P = Ounces in a Pint
16 = O in a P = Ounces in a Pound - Oz in a Pound
16 = O of M = Orders of Mammals
16 = SLA = School Leaving Age
16 = S and NBK = Sweet 16 and Never Been Kissed
16 = T and WDYG? = Tons and What Do You Get?
16 = VV = Vestal Virgins

17 = PBN and SV = Parallel Between North and South Vietnam
17 = S in a H = Syllables in a Haiku

18 = H on a GC = Holes on a Golf Course
18 = I in a C = Inches in a Cubit
18 = W on a TTT = Wheels on a Tractor Trailer Truck
18 = WOAST = Wheels On A Semi Trailer
18 = YOTV = Years old To Vote
18.5 = ME from the WT = Minutes Erased from the Watergate Tapes

19 = GS for the VP = Gun Salute for the Vice President

20 = C in a P = Cigarettes in a Pack
20 = CIAPOM = Cigarettes In A Pack Of Marlboros
20 = FO in a P = Fluid Ounces in a Pint
20 = MP in a HG = Minute Periods in a Hockey Game
20 = QA, V, or M = Questions Animal, Vegetable or Mineral
20 = YS by RVW = Years Slept by Rip Van Winkle
20 = YTRVWS = Years That Rip Van Winkle Slept
20 = Y in a S = Years in a Score

21 = GS = Gun Salute
21 = JS = Jump Street
21 = K of the D = Key of the Door
21 = LDA = Legal Drinking Age
21 = S on a D = Spots on a Die
22 = C = Catch
23 = P on a GJ = People on a Grand Jury
23 = POCIAH = Pairs Of Chromosomes In A Human
23 = P to BS = Paces to Baker Street (movie)
24 = BB in a P = Blackbirds Baked in a Pie
24 = BB to a C = Beer Bottles to a Case
24 = B in a C = Beers in a Case
24 = B in the I (H) = Books in the Iliad (Homer)
24 = CT(GC) = Carets Troy (Gold Content)
24 = DP to the I for MI = Dollars Paid to the Indians for Manhattan Island
24 = H in a D = Hours in a Day
24 = H of the R = Hours of the Rebel (movie)
24 = L in the GA = Letters in the Greek Alphabet
25 = P in a Q = Pennies in a Quarter
25 = P in a Q = Procent in a Quarter
25 = S in a Q = Sheets in a Quire
25 = Y of M for a SA = Years of Marriage for a Silver Anniversary
26 = L of the A = Letters of the Alphabet
27 = A to the C = Amendments to the Constitution
27 = A to the USC = Amendments to the United States Constitution
27 = DWW by GG = Different Wigs Worn by Gregory Giggs
28 = D in F = Days in February
29 = D in F in a LY = Days in February in a Leap Year
29 = P in a PCH = Points in a Perfect Cribbage Hand

30 = DHS = Days Hath September
30 = D has S, A, J & N = Days has September, April, June & November
30 = D in J = Days in June
30 = FB of CR = Foot Bride of Candy Rock (movie)
30 = P of SG to J = Pieces of Silver Given to Judas
30 = S for FJ = Seconds for Final Jeopardy
30 = S over T = Seconds over Tokyo (movie)

31 = D in O = Days in October
31 = F of BRIC = Flavors of Baskin Robins Ice Cream
31 = ICFABR = Ice Cream Flavors At Baskin Robins
32 = DF at which WF = Degrees Fahrenheit at which Water Freezes
32 = T counting WT = Teeth counting Wisdom Teeth
33 = CQ for the IFH = Cars Qualify for the Indianapolis Five Hundred
36 = I on a YS = Inches on a Yard Stick
36 = IIAY = Inches In a Yard
36 = N on a RW = Numbers on a Roulette Wheel
36 = RM = Righteous Men
37 = NBTDC = Natural Body Temperature Degrees Centigrade
38 = N on a RW = Numbers on a Roulette Wheel
39 = L in ML = Lashes in Moses' Law
39 = S = Steps (movie)

40 = D and N of the GF = Days and Nights of the Great Flood
40 = D in L = Days in Lent
40 = G to AP = Guns to Apache Pass (movie)
40 = H in a WW = Hours in a Work Week
40 = P in a F = Poles in a Furlong
40 = P of T= pounds of Trouble (movie)
40 = R in a F = Rods in a Furlong
40 = W = Winks
40 = Y in the D for I = Years in the Desert for Israelites
43 = B in EC of N = Beans in Each Cup of Nescafe
40 - D and N of the GF = Days and Nights of the Great Flood
45 = D in a O = Degrees in an Octant
45 = RPM = Revolutions Per Minute
46 = C in a HC = Chromosomes in a Human Cell
47 = PP in EE = Pythagorean Propositions in Euclid's Elements
48 = C in a PD = Cards in a Pinochle Deck
49 = RA in a R = Reasons All in a Row

50 = R to T = Roads to Town (movie)
50 = S on the AF = Stars on the American Flag
50 = S in the U = States in the Union
50 = W to LYL = Ways to Leave Your Lover
50 = Y in a J = Years in a Jubilee
52 = C in a D = Cards in a Deck
52 = W in a Y = Weeks in a Year
54 = C in a D with the J = Cards in a Deck with the Jokers
54 = F or F = Forty or Fight
54 = S on a RC = Squares on a Rubik's Cube
55 = D at P = Days at Peking (movie)
56 = SOTDOI = Signers Of The Declaration Of Independence
57 = HV = Heinz Varieties

60 = GY = Glorious Years (movie)
60 = M in an H = Minutes in an Hour
60 = S in a M = Seconds in a Minute
60 = M in a NM = Minutes in a Nautical Mile
61 = HRH by RM in OS = Home Runs Hit by Roger Maris in One Season
64 = DOTTOH = Disks On The Tower Of Hanoi
64 = S on a C = Squares on a Chessboard
64 = S on a CB = Squares on a Checker Board
64 = TDQ = Thousant Dollar question
64 = YOWIHYWSNM = Years Old When I Hope You Will Still Need Me
66 = B in the KJB = Books in the King James Bible

70 = D of C = Disciples of Christ
70 = SL on a M = Speed Limit on a Motorway
75 = Y of M for the DA = Years of Marriage for the Diamond Anniversary
76 = TL the BP = Trombones Led the Big Parade
76 = T in TMM = Trombones in The Music Man
77 = SS = Sunset Strip
78 = C in a TD = Cards in a Tarot Deck
78 = R per M on a OR = Revolutions per Minute on a Old Record
79 = AN of G = Atomic Number of Gold

80 = C in a M = Chains in a Mile
80 = D to GA the W = Days to Go Around the World
80 = S to J = Steps to Jonah (movie)
82 = YOWFSD = Years Old When Frank Sinatra Died
87 = FS and SY = Four Score and Seven Years
88 = C in the S = Constellations in the Sky
88 = PK = Piano Keys

90 = D in the S = Degrees in the Shade (movie)
90 = D in a RA = Degrees in a Right Angle
92 = AN of U = Atomic Number of Uranium
92 = in the S = in the Shade (movie)
95 = MLT = Martin Luther's Theses
96 = ETT = Eight Times Twelve
97 = PW = Pound Weakling
99 = B of B on the W = Bottles of Beer on the Wall

100 = C in a D = Cents in a Dollar
100 = AW (W the P) = Acre Wood (Winnie the Pooh)
100 = K in a C = Kilograms in a Centner
100 = L on a C = Legs on a Centipede
100 = P in a C = Pounds in a Cental / Pounds in a Cwt/ Pesewas in a Cedi
100 = S in the S = Senators in the Senate
100 = USS = United States Senators
100 = Y in an AFF = Yards in an American Football Field
100 = Y in a C = Years in a Century
100 = DCTBW = Degrees Celsius To Boil Water

101 = CCB = Clarinets Came Behind
101 = D in the DM = Dalmatians in the Disney Movie
101 = a SML = a Silly Millimeter Longer
102 = F in the ESB = Floors in the Empire State Building
109 = JKPTB = John Kennedy's PT Boat

110 = F in the WTC = Floors in the World Trade Center
110 = Y in a CFF = Yards in a Continental Football Field
111 = E on the PT = Elements on the Periodic Table
112 = P in a BC = Pounds in a British Cwt (hundredweight)
116 = Y in the HYW = Years in the Hundred Years War
120 = H in a CB = Holes in a Cribbage Board
121 = ES = Eleven Squared
125 = R of C = Rooms of Comfort (movie)
144 = U in a G = Units in a Gross
144 = I in a G = Items in a Gross
150 = P in the B = Psalms in the Bible
150 = P for a YCT = Pushups for a Yeoman's Curt Tort
151 = P in the ROB = Psalms In the Russian Orthodox Bible
176 = V in the LP = Verses in the Longest Psalm [#119]
180 = D to RD = Degrees to Reverse Direction

200 = D for PG in M = Dollars for Passing Go in Monopoly
200 = M in a C = Milligrams in a Carat
206 = B in the HB = Bones in the Human Body
221 = BBSA of SH = B Baker Street Address of Sherlock Holmes
235 = I of U in the AB = Isotope of Uranium in the Atomic Bomb
300 = B in the T of C = Bees in the Tomb of Childeric
364 = P from MTL = Presents from My True Love
365 = D in a Y = Days in a Year
366 = D in a LY = Days in a Leap Year
432 = P in a H = Pints in a Hogshead
435 = M of the H of R = Members of the House of Representatives
435 = S in the H of R = Seats in the House of Representatives
451 = DF at which BB = Degrees Fahrenheit at which Books Burn
500 = FC = Fortune Companies
500 = M in the IFH = Miles in the Indianapolis Five Hundred
500 = S in a R = Sheets in a Ream
501 = L-SJ = Levi-Strauss Jeans
600 = C in the LB = Charged in the Light Brigade
666 = N of the B in the B of R = Number of the Beast in the Book of Revelation
707 = Y of C = Year of Confusion
711 = OD = Ocean Drive (movie)
714 = BN of SJF = Badge Number of Sgt Joe Friday
755 = HRH by HA = Home Runs Hit by Hank Aaron
800 = W in V = Warriors in Valhalla
969 = Y that ML = Years that Methuselah Lived

1000 = E has the N = Eyes has the Night
1000 = I in NY = Islands in New York
1000 = M in a K = Metres in a Kilometre
1000 = P of L = Points of Light
1000 = SL by the F of H of T = Ships Launched by the Face of Helen of Troy
1000 = W that a P is W = Words that a Picture is Worth
1000 = YIAM = Years In A Millennium
1001 = AN = Arabian Nights
1001 = C a BBC = Cleans a Big Big Carpet
1066 = B of H = Battle of Hastings
1189 = TC of R the L-H = Third Crusade of Richard the Lion-Hearted
1314 = B of B = Battle of Bannockburn
1390 = CTW by GC = Canterbury Tales Written by Geoffrey Chauser
1452 = B of LDV = Birth of Leonardo Da Vinci
1431 = M of OB at the S = Maid of Orleans Burnt at the Stake
1440 = M in a D = Minutes in a Day
1492 = CCD the A = Christopher Columbus Discovered the Americas
1543 = CS by NC = Copernican System by Nicolaus Copernicus
1595 = WSWR and J = William Shakespeare Wrote Romeo and Juliet
1600 = PA the WH = Pennsylvania Avenue the White House
1607 = J, FC in A = Jamestown, First Colony in America
1648 = C of TM = Completion of Taj Mahal
1692 = WT in S, M = Witchcraft Trials in Salem, Massachusetts
1756 = B of WAM = Birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1760 = Y in a M = Yards in a Mile
1776 = F of SF = Founding of San Fransico
1805 = SFS = Six Five Special
1854 = FNS in the CW = Florence Nightingale Serves in the Crimean War
1863 = ALD the GA = Abraham Lincoln Delivered the Gettysburg Address
1865 = PALA by JWB = President Abraham Lincoln Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
1901 = FNPA = First Nobel Prize Awarded
1943 = FECB = First Electronic Computer Built
1945 = B of N and H = Bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
1953 = EHCE = Edmund Hilary Conquers Everest
1963 = PKA = President Kennedy Assassinated
1969 = NA and EAW on the M = Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin walked on the Moon
1977 = EP, K of R, D = Elvis Presley, King of Rock, Died
1989 = TSP in B = Tiananmen Square Protest in Beijing
2000 = P in a T = Pounds in a Ton
2001 = ASO = A Space Odyssey (movie)
2130 = LGCGR = Lou Gehrig's Consecutive Game Record
3000 = MC = Mile Chase (movie)
3600 = S in a H = Seconds in an Hour
5000 = F of DT. = Fingers of Doctor T. (movie)
5280 = F in a M = Feet in a Mile
20000 = Y in SS = Years in Sing Sing (movie)
20000 = LU the S = Leagues Under the Sea
29029 = H of ME above SL = Height of Mount Everest above Sea Level
43560 = SF in an A = Square Feet in an Acre
1000000 = T to the PS = Ten to the Power Six

Quiz-a-Day

1 What does the abbreviation GDP stand for?
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT
2 Who played the named character in these films :- Kitty Foyle : Roxie hart : Magnificent Doll?
GINGER ROGERS
3 Which calendar did Britain adopt in 1752 which is still in use today?
GREGORIAN
4 In 1987 who presented the TV show Sweethearts?
LARRY GRAYSON
5 After which Norse God is Friday named?
FRIGGA or FREYA
6 In 1993 which country ranked third in terms of population :- China : India : USA?
USA
7 Which of the 7 wonders of the ancient world was constructed by the sculptor Phidias about 430 BC?
STATUE OF ZEUS
8 Who is the patron saint of singers :- Andrew, Gregory, Vitus?
GREGORY
9 Which video-cassette system introduced in the 1970’s is now obsolete?
BETAMAX
10 Who is the Greek equivalent of the Roman deity Pax?
IRENE
11 Who hit reached No.1 with Reet Petite almost 30 years after first entering the hit parade?
JACKIE WILSON
12 True or False : The Egyptian God Osiris was the son of Nut?
TRUE
13 Of which country was Achmed Sukarno the president from 1945 to 1962?
INDONESIA
14 Which German physicist formulated the quantum theory?
MAX PLANCK
15 What is Pott :- Re-fired Pottery : Size of Paper : African meal?
SIZE OF PAPER
16 In what field did Norman Parkinson make his name?
PHOTOGRAPHY
17 What instrument was played by jazz musician John Coltrane?
SAXAPHONE
18 Which novel by Michael Crichton was No.1 bestseller paperback in 1993?
JURASSIC PARK
19 1n which sport did Irina Rodnina win 23 World, Olympic & European gold medals?
ICE SKATING
20 Who won best actress for her role in Coming Home (1978)?
JANE FONDA
21 From whom did Shylock wish to take his pound of flesh?
ANTONIO
22 Who wrote the plays : Arms and the Man and The devils Disciple?
G B SHAW
23 The Jewish festival Purim celebrates the story of which woman in the Bible?
ESTHER
24 What colour eggs are the Chinese symbol of luck and new life?
RED
25 In the Bible which King’s doom was foretold by the writing on the wall?
BELSHAZZAR
26 Which once common disease was also known as The White Death?
TUBERCULOSIS
27 Which former Labour Government Minister has a son who is now an MP for a LEEDS (West Yorkshire) constituency?
TONY BENN (Hilary Benn)
28 True or False : Salisbury Crags are in Scotland?
TRUE (Edinburgh)
29 In which African country do the Hausa people live :- Sudan, Nigeria, Tanzania?
NIGERIA
30 Who succeeded U Thant as Secretary General of the United Nations?
KURT WALDHEIM
31 Which bone is between your Femur and your Tibia?
PATELLA
32 Under what name did Nathan Birnbaum become famous?
GEORGE BURNS
33 Of what do fennel leaves taste?
ANISEED
34 Who was Desmond Lynam’s co-presenter on the first series of How Do They Do That?
JENNIE HULL
35 Which French soldiers name became the word for a strict disciplinarian?
(JEAN) MARTINET
36 How many islands make the Maldives :- 1196, 1296, 1396?
1196
37 Which film ends like this? Mounted soldier (Charlton Heston) reaches out to a little girl and says “Here take my hand”?
55 DAYS AT PEKING
38 Which singer had hits in the 80’s with Games Without Frontiers and Sledgehammer?
PETER GABRIEL
39 In which constellation is the star Betelgeuse?
ORION
40 Who was the Norse God of Poetry :- Bragi, Balder, Hoder?
BRAGI

Today's The Day - 22nd July

22nd July 2006
National Day of Poland.

Religious Events today...
Feast day of St Mary Magdalen,
St Joseph of Palestine,
St Philip Evans,
St Vandrille or Wandregesilus,
and St John Lloyd.

History Test for July 22nd
Which American gangster was reputedly shot by FBI agents outside a Chicago cinema today in 1934? -John Dillinger
Born today in 1939, who received an Oscar nomination for his performance in 'Billy Budd'? -Terence Stamp
According to legend, in which city did the Pied Piper appear on this day in 1284? -Hamelin
Born today in 1890, who was the mother of an American President, an Attorney General and a senator and the wife of an ambassador? -Rose Kennedy
Today is a national holiday in Poland. What is the country's unit of currency? -The Zloty
Events today...
1802 Death of Marie Francois Xavier Bichat, French anatomist.
1812 The Duke of Wellington defeated the French in the Battle of Salamanca in Spain.
1844 The Rev William Spooner was born, to thus invent "spoonerisms" - such as 'a blushing crow’ for a 'crushing blow'.
1932 US theatrical producer Florenz Ziegfeld died in Hollywood.
1933 Wiley Post became the first person to fly solo around the world, taking 7 days 18 hours and 49 1/2 minutes to complete the journey from Floyd Bennett Field in New York City and back via the Arctic Circle.
1934 American public enemy No 1 John Dillinger was gunned down and killed by plain clothes police officers in front of the Biograph Theater in Chicago following a tip-off by a Chicago brothel madame. However, US Naval records of Dillinger's description while a crewman, suggested that he may not have been the man shot dead by the police
1946 Bread rationing came into force in peacetime Britain.
1950 Death of Mackenzie King, Canadian statesman.
1954 The musical film 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers' received its premiere in New York.
1959 Figures announced in the UK revealed that the crime rate in London had risen 21 per cent from the previous year.
1965 Sir Alec Douglas-Home resigned as leader of the Conservative Party.
1967 Death of Carl Sandburg, US poet.
1976 Death of Mortimer Wheeler, British archaeologist.
1976 The musical show A Chorus Line was staged in London for the first time.
1980 Unemployment in the UK stood at 1,896,634, the highest figure since 1936.
1983 A report published in the UK claimed that two million adults - the official figure, the actual figure might have been much higher - in Britain, were functionally illiterate, in that they had difficulties in reading, writing and spelling.
1983 Around half a dozen Welsh students shouted "go home" at the Prince of Wales as he arrived for a meeting at the University of Wales. They were allegedly protesting against English imperialism.
1983 Disc jockey Ed Stewart slept through alarms as smoke filled his hotel in Bristol, he was eventually roused by his producer with whom he fled to safety
1983 Television presenter David Frost was fined £150 and banned from driving for a year for driving his car with excess alcohol in his blood
1984 Nineteen-year-old Nigel Short from Atherton, Manchester, became Britain's youngest chess Grand Master after winning an international tournament in Esbjerk, Denmark.
1984 Seve Ballesteros won the British Open golf championship for the second time.
1984 The Royal Institute of British Architects announced it was to launch an appeal for funds to install fire protection equipment in York Minster which was badly damaged by fire two weeks previously.
1988 Hopes of an end to the eight-year Iran-Iraq war were further dashed when Iraq launched an offensive aimed at recovering land lost in the early days of the war. Only five days earlier Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had offered Iran a peaceful end to the war but after Iran agreed to a cease-fire, Iraq again began the conflict. As a result UN Secretary General Perez de Cuellar was sending a team to Iraq and Iran to work out details of the cease-fire.
1988 Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital admitted that over 150 cancer patients had received large accidental overdoses of radiation treatment during a five-month period.
1989 A massive Bronze Age rock-cut tomb in the Orkneys was discovered when a lorry dislodged it in a sand quarry. The manager of archaeological operations for Historic Buildings and Monuments in Scotland, John Barber, claimed that it was one of the most important sites found this century.
1989 Police were searching for a thief who had stolen a scale model of the Batmobile used for special effects sequences, from Pinewood film studios. Berkshire.
1989 The UK suffered its highest temperatures since 1976, reaching a high of 34 degrees C.
1991 Prime Minister John Major unveiled the government's 'Citizen's Charter' aimed at improving public services.
1995 It was announced that British MPs take a very long summer break, with a holiday more than 10 weeks longer than their counterparts in America, India or Italy, according to The People newspaper. The parliamentary recess lasts 13 1/2 weeks.
1995 Lady Wilson, the widow of the former prime minister, had her pension reduced by almost a half. Harold Wilson's annual allowance of £28,700 as a former prime minister was reduced to £15,000 for his wife - about £288 a week.
1995 Police closed the A31 near St Leonards, Dorset, for six hours when heathland burst into flames and threatened people using the road.
1995 Harold Larwood, the cricketer, died aged 90. He was at the centre of the controversial 'Bodyline' tour of Australia in the 1930s.
1995 The Commons transport select committee found that nearly three-quarters of ferries operating from British ports failed to meet international safety standards. Some MPs had even changed transport plans to avoid sea crossings because of the danger of capsizing by roll-on, roll-off ferries.
1995 British Rail negotiators were to offer to cut the working hours of train drivers in a desperate attempt to avoid another 24-hour strike.
2003 The US military said it was 'certain' its troops had killed Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay in a raid.
2003 Jessica Lynch, the US soldier rescued by special forces after she was taken prisoner in Iraq got a hero's welcome home.
2003 At least eight people were hurt as bombs exploded in Alicante and Benidorm, after a warning from Basque group ETA.
2003 The BA chief Rod Eddington said he is sorry for the disruption to passengers caused by an unofficial strike at Heathrow airport over the introduction of new staff clocking in procedures.
2003 Hundreds of fans paid their final respects to salsa star Celia Cruz at her funeral in New York.
2003 Borussia Dortmund's Jens Lehmann looked set to become the long-term replacement for David Seaman at Arsenal.
2003 Former England captain Alec Stewart announced he was to quit Test cricket at the end of the summer.
2004 At least 38 people were killed as a high-speed train derailed in north-western Turkey.
2004 French singer Sacha Distel, best known for his 1960s and 1970s hits, died after a long illness at the age of 71.
2004 BBC director of news Richard Sambrook moved to a new role in charge of the BBC's worldwide news services.
2004 A record stand between Rob Key and Andrew Strauss put England in total control on day one against West Indies.
2004 Lance Armstrong won his fourth stage in the 2004 Tour de France in sensational style.
2004 Olympique Marseille midfielder Matthieu Flamini signed for Arsenal.
2005 Director Roman Polanski won £50,000 libel damages from Vanity Fair magazine at London's High Court.
2005 Chinese carmaker Nanjing Automotive bought the remaining assets of collapsed UK car company MG Rover.
2005 R&B singer Ashanti was ordered to pay $630,000 to her first producer after losing a court battle in New York.
2005 Yelena Isinbayeva became the first woman to clear five metres as she sets a new pole vault world record.

BIRTHDAYS (for 22 July 2006)
Philip I, 528 (born 22 July 1478)
King of Spain
Gregor Mendel, 184 (born 22 July 1822)
Austrian botanist who discovered the fundamental principles governing the inheritance of characteristics in living things, and summarised them in the `Law of Segregation' and the `Law of Independant Assortment'
Rev. William Archibald Spooner, 162 (born 22 July 1844)
coined phrases like "swell foop."
Selman Waksman, 118 (born 22 July 1888)
Russian-born American biochemist who discovered streptomycin in 1943. He was awarded a Nobel prize in 1952
Stephen Vincent Benet, 108 (born 22 July 1898)
American poet and short story writer
Bryan Forbes, 80 (born 22 July 1926)
Film director, actor and author who married actress Nanette Newman. As an actor he appeared in many films including 'The League of Gentlemen' with Jack Hawkins and 'The Guns of Navarone'. He has directed 'The Mad Woman of Chaillot' and 'King Rat', amongst
Jimmy Hill, 78 (born 22 July 1928)
Football commentator
Vivien Merchant, 77 (born 22 July 1929)
(Deceased) British actress, once married to Harold Pinter. She made several films ineluding 'Alfie' and 'Under Milk Wood'
Chuck Jackson, 69 (born 22 July 1937)
Soul singer from the 60s
Anthony Steen, 67 (born 22 July 1939)
Conservative politician
Terence Stamp, 67 (born 22 July 1939)
Film actor and author. He has made many movies including 'Billy Budd', 'The Collector', 'Young Guns', 'Prince of Shadows' and 'The Real McCoy'
George Clinton, 66 (born 22 July 1940)
Funkadelic/Parliament
Danny Glover, 59 (born 22 July 1947)
American actor of 'Lethal Weapon' and '2' and '3'. Other films include 'Predator' and 'BAT 21' with Gene Hackman
Don Henley, 59 (born 22 July 1947)
The Eagles
Willem Dafoe, 51 (born 22 July 1955)
American actor usually in unsympathetic parts. His films include 'Mississippi Burning' and Born on the Fourth of July', to name only two of a great many
Simon, 50 (born 22 July 1956)
Jimmy The Hoover
Bonnie Langford, 42 (born 22 July 1964)
Actress and dancer

GUESS THE YEAR
President Johnson signed the US Civil Rights Bill prohibiting racial discrimination.
The Beatles’ first film, A Hard Day’s Night, was given a royal premier in London.
Donald Campbell attained a new world land-speed record of over 403 mph in his Bluebird, on the salt flats of Lake Eyre in South Australia.
John White, Tottenham Hotspur's inside right, was killed when lightning struck the tree under which he was sheltering while out playing golf.
Sir Winston Churchill appeared in the House of Commons for the last time.
The first Brook Advisory Clinic was opened in the UK, to give family planning advice to unmarried couples.
The first ever close up pictures of the moon were returned to earth by the US Ranger 7.
US country singer Jim Reeves was killed in an air crash.
In London, the third James Bond film, `Goldfinger', starring Sean Connery was released. The title song, recorded by Shirley Bassey, was already in the charts.
Police were flown into Hastings, East Sussex, to quell clashes between Mods and Rockers.
Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones was fined £32 for driving a car with no insurance in Liverpool.
In the UK, `James Bond' creator Ian Fleming died at the age of 56.

....and we ask you to ....GUESS THE YEAR
1964

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Quiz-a-Day

1 What colour is traditionally associated with Roman Emperors?
PURPLE
2 What name is given to the flap of cartilage which prevents food from entering the windpipe?
EPIGLOTIS
3 What sort of fruit is a Laxton Superb :- Apple : Strawberry : Plum?
APPLE
4 Under what name did Lord Tweedsmuir write several novels?
JOHN BUCHAN
5 What is the more common name for grape-sugar?
GLUCOSE
6 What would you do with a LABRET :- Eat it : Play it : Wear it?
WEAR IT (Lip ornament)
7 Areas of what are connected by a line called an isohyet on a map?
RAINFALL
8 In which American state are there towns called Anaconda and Moscow and the Salmon River?
IDAHO
9 In which sport is there competition for the America’s Cup?
YACHTING
10 Which British island about 80 feet across is in the Atlantic, 230 miles west of the Hebrides?
ROCKALL
11 What was supposed to flow in the veins of Greek Gods?
ICHOR
12 In which film did POW’s use a vaulting horse to disguise the digging of an escape tunnel?
THE WOODEN HORSE
13 Which drink was advertised by Leonard Rossiter & Joan Collins?
CINZANO
14 What was the name of the ageing rock band in the TV series Tutti Frutti?
THE MAJESTIKS
15 Which straits separate Sri Lanka from India?
THE PALK STRAITS
16 True or False Glyndebourne Opera House is in West Sussex?
FALSE (EAST SUSSEX)
17 Who designed the tapestry which hangs behind the altar in Coventry Cathedral?
GRAHAM SUTHERLAND
18 Which animal gives us nutria fur?
COYPU
19 Who said “It’s a funny old world – a man’s lucky if he gets out of it alive”?
W C FIELDS
20 What is the collective word for a group of foxes?
SKULK
21 In which novel did Michael Henchard sell his wife for 5 guineas?
THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE
22 For which King George did Handel compose his Water Music?
GEORGE I
23 What colour was Alexander Dumas’ Tulip?
BLACK
24 What is the square root of 729?
27
25 On what material does a Topiarist work?
HEDGES & SHRUBS
26 In which club did Arthur & Terry drink in the TV series Minder?
THE WINCHESTER
27 Which famous adventure story was originally titled The Sea Cook?
TREASURE ISLAND
28 Mainly which creatures belong to the order ARACHNIDA?
SPIDERS
29 From which country did the Bashi Bazouks come :- Morocco, Persia, Turkey?
TURKEY
30 What fruit did Columbus discover on the island of Guadeloupe?
PINEAPPLE
31 Who played the named character in the following films : Darby’s Rangers, Mister Buddwing & Marlow?
JAMES GARNER
32 True or False : There is actually a country called Cape Vered?
TRUE
33 Which Christian name derives from the Gaelic for Handsome?
KENNETH
34 From what affliction did the patient Job suffer in the Bible?
BOILS
35 What is the family name of the Dukes of Wellington?
WELLESLEY
36 In which city were the 1896 Olympics Games held?
ATHENS
37 With which sport do you mainly associate Sabina Park?
CRICKET
38 In MACBETH who was Banquo’s son?
FLEANCE
39 Who had a 1972 pop hit with Sylvia’s Mother?
Dr. HOOK
40 Which football team plays its home games at Roots Hall?
SOUTHEND

Heat - A Hot Topic

The last time Britain lived through so much heat in July was in 1911, when 384 hours of sunshine were recorded in Eastbourne and Hastings.
Ninety-five years ago, dancing duchesses in the Savoy ballroom were cooled down by sprays of freezing ozone and the newly crowned Queen Mary found relief in the plentiful supplies of ice carried aboard the royal yacht.
Rupert Brooke took a break from writing his first book of poems that summer and swam naked in the river at Grantchester. The bathing machines that crowded Britain's beaches gave comforting shelter to those who feared public scrutiny as they clambered into their neck-to-shin swimming costumes (which weighed up to 20lb when wet).
But sunshine and warmth do not always bring happiness; excess heat has a way of stripping inhibitions and encouraging impulsive behaviour.
On July 17, 1911, a man walked six miles from his Essex village into the local town, stripping off his clothes and hurling them over the hedge as he went.
Finally, marching stark naked down Brentwood High Street, he was arrested and locked away in the local lunatic asylum. He had literally gone mad with the heat.
Newspapers began to run occasional columns that summer called Deaths from the Heat until they were discontinued as no longer newsworthy.
The dockers, exasperated by low pay and unemployment, went on strike that July, to be joined by the railwaymen, paralysing the transport system.
Winston Churchill, the 36-year-old home secretary, feared that as the food lay in the sun, untouched and rotting on the quays, there would be famine in the land.
Churchill also worried that the Kaiser's aggressive behaviour towards French-occupied North Africa might eventually lead to something truly dangerous. He discussed the situation in between swimming lengths of the new pool at the RAC Club in London's Piccadilly with his lodger, the foreign secretary, Edward Grey.
Even in the record-breaking heat of July 2006 it would be hard to imagine Margaret Beckett and John Reid so desperate for a swim that they would be caught mulling over departmental policy in the pool.
Juliet Nicolson is the author of The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911, published by John Murray, £20

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Hot? Call this hot? One warm day and the whole country flops down in a faint like a bunch of wilted pansies. I mean what's got into us, eh?
After being AWOL for most of June, the British sun has put in a brief appearance, and at once our airwaves are jammed with portentous government doctors warning us to stay indoors, wear loose cotton clothing, turn off the central heating and above all to slather our skins with oceans of foul seal-blubberish suncream. We are warned of heatstroke, kidney failure, heart attack and - mystifyingly - cold sores.
Listen, my friends. Here is my own personal weather analysis. It is a lovely sunny July day. It is admittedly a trifle close on the Tube - but how on earth can that be an excuse for closing our schools?
On trains, passengers are continually interrupted by the guard warning them to drink water, bottles of which may conveniently be obtained from the buffet car at a mere two quid a pop. What next? Will they have to remind us to keep breathing? Have we lost all sense of proportion?
The Middle East is aflame. Our Prime Minister has been exposed in a posture of abject servility before the American President, summoned with a click of the fingers and the words "Yo, Blair", as if he were Jeeves to Dubya's Wooster.
I only refrain from calling Mr Blair a poodle because several correspondents have protested to me that this is an insult to poodles, who are, apparently, keen independent spirits.
The Labour Government is in a state of meltdown far more serious than any softening of the tarmac at Eastbourne, and in only a few days' time we must endure the national agony of seeing John Prescott at the helm of the ship of state.
In spite of all this genuine global catastrophe it seems that the main news - the big, front-page news - concerns the efficacy or otherwise of sun gunk.
In order to terrify its poor benighted readers one newspaper has recruited two groups of warring scientists. The first lot says that you must baste yourself with two 5mm layers of sun gunk, being careful to leave it on the skin like war-paint, otherwise it will have no effect and you will get cancer. The second lot says that you must rub it in, otherwise it will soon wear off and you will get cancer.
Which is it? And isn't the dreadful truth, frankly, that we would be just as well off using Mazola?
Let me remind you of one thing, all you local authorities which seize the chance to close the schools on a gorgeous sunny day. The parents of these kiddies save thousands of pounds to buy them holidays in the sun everywhere from Crete to Cancun.
Look up at the sky and every 60 seconds you will see another huge airborne cattle truck taking the British to be scorched in climates far fiercer than our own. We sit in our villas and our condos around the shores of the Mediterranean, like pale frogs about a pond, and when our own watery sun is so pretentious as to put on a Mediterranean performance, we go into a national spasm of alarm.
Is this the nation that built the Empire? When Lawrence was cantering his camels through the sands, was he pursued by health warnings about exposing the tips of his ears and nose to the desert glare?
When Livingstone toiled through the sweltering jungles of central Africa, did he have coolies toting bottles of Evian and government officials warning him of dehydration?
This is a nation whose imperial greatness transformed the world, and which disseminated ideas of freedom, parliamentary democracy and above all the English language, the language of the globe, polar, tropical and temperate.
We pulled it off because we were equipped with colonial servants who didn't care whether it was as hot as a chilli on the back streets of Bangalore. They were pink of cheek and rheumy of eye, and when their French and German rivals were having a siesta, they were out in the noonday sun claiming the planet for the Crown.
How fallen, how changed we are from that magnificent ethic. Even since the 1970s, when we last had a heatwave and, interestingly, movies about Superman and the Poseidon Adventure, we seem to have softened like a strawberry mivvi in the sun.
Our footballers blub when they lose a match. The nanny state won't let us take our T-shirts off in public lest we get sunburn, and from November all children under the age of 11 will have to be equipped with an expensive plastic booster seat banquette before you can take them in the back of the car.
We have become so wet that the Government has tried to intrude in the housing market and abolish the ancient principle of caveat emptor, and while I am on the subject there is one final point I want to make before I fire this piece off to the Telegraph and go for a well-deserved pint of beer with dewy condensation running down its cold, golden flanks.
No matter how great the hysteria about the heat, no matter how many scientists warn us about the risks of either applying or failing to apply sunscreen, we should not allow anyone to convert the current panic into legislation.
We don't want any more of those directives that make employers criminally liable for failing to see that their employees are covered with gloop factor 15.
Let us in conclusion remember the words of the poet. Sometime too bright the eye of heaven shines, he pointed out, and for some weeds out there that is the case this week.
But the key point, as he went on to say, is that Often is his gold complexion dimm'd. That is the way of the British sun, and that, if I read the forecast correctly, is what is going to happen this weekend.
My heatwave health advice is to jump in the delicious river Thames, upstream of Henley. And if you really can't stand the heat, move to Scotland, where it seems to be raining already.

Today's The Day - 21st July

21st July 2006
National day of Belgium.

Religious Events today...
Feast day of St Laurence of Brindisi,
St Victor of Marseilles,
St Arbogastes,
and St Praxedes.
History Test for July 21st
Born today in 1899, who wrote the novel `A Farewell To Arms'? -Ernest Hemingway
What nickname was given to soldier Sir Henry Percy, killed in battle today in 1403? -`Hotspur'
In which country did Mrs Bandaranaike become the world's first woman Prime Minister today in 1960? -Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon)
Who became the second man on the moon today in 1969? -Edwin `Buzz' Aldrin
Born today in 1934, which doctor and opera director presented the TV documentary series 'The Body in Question'? -Dr. Jonathan Miller
Events today...
1796 Scottish national poet Robert Burns died at the age of 37 in Dumfries.
1798 The Battle of the Pyramids took place, in which Napoleon, soon after his invasion of Egypt, defeated an army of some 60,000 Mamelukes.
1861 The Confederates defeated the Union troops in the first Battle of Bull Run, in the American Civil War.
1897 London's Tate Gallery, built on the site of the Millbank Prison, was opened.
1904 After 13 years work, the Trans-Siberian railway was completed.
1928 Death of Ellen Tracy, English actress.
1928 English Shakespearian actress Dame Ellen Terry died in Hythe, Kent, at the age of 81.
1944 Guam, in the western Pacific, which had been under Japanese occupation since December 1941, was retaken by US Marines.
1960 58-year-old Francis Chichester docked at New York in his Gypsy Moth II setting a new record of 40 days for a solo crossing of the Atlantic.
1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaika replaced her murdered husband as prime minister of Sri Lanka, becoming the first woman to hold this office.
1961 Captain Virgil Grissom became the second American astronaut during a 16 minute flight 116 miles into space.
1962 Death of George Macaulay Trevelyan, British historian.
1964 John White, Tottenham Hotspur's inside right, was killed when lightning struck the tree under which he was sheltering while out playing golf.
1967 Death of Albert Luthuli, South African politician.
1967 English actor Basil Rathbone, best remembered as Sherlock Holmes, died.
1969 The lunar module Apollo II landed on the Moon, and US astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz”Aldrin took their first exploratory walk. Armstrong became the first man to ever set foot on the moon, with the words "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." -He made a mistake from the carefully prepared quote. He should have said “...one small step for a man..”
1974 The national police computer began operating.
1983 A rare Elizabethan volume of Sir Francis Bacon's 'Essayes' was sold for £20,900 to London dealers Quaritch.
1983 It was disclosed that malicious calls to the fire services had reached a record 187,112 for the previous year
1983 Lucille Langley-Williams, one of six survivors of the Isles of Scilly helicopter crash, flew on a helicopter on the same route only five days after the disaster which claimed twenty lives.
1984 52-year-old James Finn, the man who started the jogging craze, suffered a heart attack and dropped down dead while jogging in Vermont.
1984 A fly stowed away on the Soyuz spacecraft which was taking three Soviet cosmonauts to the Salyut space station. The insect’s behaviour was to be watched by the cosmonauts as an addition to their study of weightlessness.
1984 It was announced that Mother Teresa would undergo a single eye cataract operation in Pittsburgh later in 1984.
1986 A report in the UK showed that 20 per cent of children were born outside of marriage.
1988 A Gallup Poll claimed that Neil Kinnock's public rating had sunk to its lowest since the general election.
1988 Building societies raised their mortgage lending rates to an average of 11.5 per cent.
1988 English cricketer David Gower played in his 100th Test match, at Headingley against the West Indies.
1988 It was reported that prisoners had held an unauthorised wine and cheese party in a cell at Ford Open prison, near Arundel, West Sussex, to celebrate a prisoner's birthday. They were only discovered when staff found the party in full swing with prisoners celebrating with home-made gin and lager while nibbling lumps of cheese and tomatoes.
1988 Michael Dukakis was confirmed as the Democratic Presidential candidate when the party convention backed him to take on George Bush later in the year.
1988 West Ham United put a £2 million transfer fee on their striker Tony Cottee, wanted by both Arsenal and Everton.
1989 Comedian Ken Dodd was acquitted of trying to defraud the Inland Revenue. It took the jury nine hours fifty minutes to reach their verdict.
1989 In Yorkshire pieces of glass were found in four cans of HP Baked Beans. The beans were produced at HP's canning plant in North Walsham, Norfolk.
1989 Seventeen-year-old Michael Adams from Truro, Cornwall, qualified as Britain's youngest chess grandmaster. After drawing his final game in the Iclicki Chess Tournament at Muswell Hill, north London, he became the third youngest grandmaster in history after Bobby Fischer and Gary Kasparov.
1990 More than 150,000 people attended 'The Wall', a large-scale concert staged by rock performers in East Berlin to celebrate the dismantling of the Berlin Wall.
1995 The BBC's head of entertainment, David Liddiment, was to join London Weekend Television as director of programmes and deputy managing director. He became the second senior BBC executive to join ITV in three months.
1995 An Oxford businesswoman won planning approval to run 15 rickshaws around the city.
1995 Johan van Niekerk, aged 20, steered Marlow Park to victory in their cricket match against Stoke Green by scoring 102 of his team's 237 for 3 and taking 10 for 46 in Stoke Green's total of 94. 100 runs and ten wickets has been achieved by four cricketers in first-class matches, including W.G. Grace, who scored 104 and took 10 for 49 for MCC against Oxford University in 1886. But van Niekerk took his final three wickets with successive balls, which was a unique feat.
1995 West End Garage in Wedmore, Somerset, was to be moved in its entirety to become an exhibit at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu. The garage was founded during the First World Warby William Tucker, who was one of the village's first car owners.
1995 Russia ordered a Virgin Atlantic flight to Hong Kong to land at Moscow airport for allegedly violating its military air space. More than 250 passengers were forced to remain on board for eight hours in very hot conditions before the plane returned to London.
1998 The Government announced that it was considering plans to relax licencing the laws in Britain.
1998 It was announced that the house where Paul McCartney grew up as a child and wrote some of the Beatles early songs with John Lennon, had been taken over by the National Trust. The building in Atherton, Liverpool, would be opened to the public later in the year.
1999 28-year-old Neil Whitehouse from Yorkshire was jailed for one year after being found guilty of refusing to turn off his mobile ‘phone on a BA flight from New York to Manchester. The judge said his stubburn attitude and disregard of human safety was disgusting.
1999 The body of John F Keddedy Jnr was found in his light aircraft after disappearing off the coast of New York on the way to a family wedding four days earlier.
2003 A mortar barrage killed many people in Monrovia as the US put thousands of marines on standby to intervene.
2003 The new director-general of the WHO vowed to provide key drugs for three million HIV and Aids patients in poor countries within two years.
2003 Farmers described the summer drought as a natural disaster, as forest fires broke out across Europe.
2003 Doctors said they had carried out the world's first successful tongue transplant on a human.
2003 Disgraced peer Lord Archer visited his parole officer for the first time since his release from prison.
2003 Damien Duff signed for Chelsea in a £17m move from Blackburn Rovers.
2003 Thousands of fans greeted Arnold Schwarzenegger at the UK première of Terminator 3.
2003 Singer Chris Martin of Coldplay was charged with malicious damage after he allegedly attacked a photographer's car.
2003 A controversial exhibition by graffiti artist Banksy, which featured painted animals, was closed "for legal reasons".
2003 Lance Armstrong recovered from a crash to take stage 15 of the Tour de France.
2003 Around 30,000 Barcelona fans turned out to welcome new signing Ronaldinho to the Nou Camp.
2003 Manchester City captain Ali Benarbia announced his retirement from football.
2004 Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon announced large cuts in the armed forces as part of modernisation plans.
2004 A man and a woman were convicted of trying to smuggle cocaine into UK stitched into the stomachs of two dogs.
2004 Pop star Michael Jackson denied magazine and newspaper reports he was to father quadruplets.
2004 Newcastle signed Patrick Kluivert on a three-year deal.
2005 Algeria's top diplomat and an aide were abducted in a western district of Baghdad.
2005 It was announced that the ashes of Star Trek actor James Doohan, Scotty in the sci-fi series, were to be scattered space.

BIRTHDAYS (for 21 July 2006)
Ernest Hemingway, 107 (born 21 July 1899)
American novelist who wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'The Old Man and the Sea'. He won the Pulitzer prize in 1953 and the Nobel prize for literature in 1954. He committed suicide in 1961
Duke of Norfolk, 91 (born 21 July 1915)
England's premier Duke
Isaac Stern, 86 (born 21 July 1920)
Award winning violinist
Kay Starr, 84 (born 21 July 1922)
American 50's pop star with hits like 'Wheel of Fortune' and 'Side by Side'
Molly Sugden, 84 (born 21 July 1922)
Yorkshire-born actress, probably best known as Mrs Slocombe in the TV series 'Are You Being Served?'
Bill Pertwee, 80 (born 21 July 1926)
English stage and screen actor, best known as ARP Warden Hodges in 'Dad's Army'. He has also appeared in several films
Karel Reisz, 80 (born 21 July 1926)
Czech film director who worked in Britain directing films such as 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' and 'Night Must Fall'
Julian Pettifer, 71 (born 21 July 1935)
Globe-trotting TV reporter for 'Tonight', 'Panorama', '24 Hours' and many other series
Leigh Lawson, 63 (born 21 July 1943)
Warwickshire-born actor who married Twiggy. He has played Neil Kinsey in two series of 'Kinsey' on television and has made several films
Cat Stevens, 59 (born 21 July 1947)
Also known as Islam Yusuf. London-born singer who had a hit in 1966 with 'I Love My Dog', which he followed with 'Matthew and Son' and 'Bad Night'. He had further hits with `Wild World' and `Lady D'Arbanville'
Robin Williams, 54 (born 21 July 1952)
American actor and comedian whose films include 'Popeye', `Good Morning Vietnam', 'Dead Poets Society', 'The Fisher King', 'Mrs Doubtfire' and 'Birdcage'

GUESS THE YEAR
Margaret Court beat Billie Jean King 14-12 11-9, to record the highest number of games played in the final of the women's singles at Wimbledon.
David Broome became the first Briton to ever win the World Show Jumping Championship.
Thor Heyerdahl and his crew crossed the Atlantic in 57 days, in a papyrus boat.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Iain Macleod died of a heart attack at the age of 56.
Death of Portuguese prime minister Antonio de Oliviera Salazar.
Death of John Barbirolli, English conductor.
Miriam Hargrove from Wakefield, Yorkshire, passed her driving test after a record 40 attempts and 212 lessons.
Penalty kicks were used as a tie-breaker in a first-class English football match for the first time during the game between Hull City and Manchester United. Drawing 1-1 after extra time, United won 4-3 after a penalty shoot-out.
In London, actor Albert Finney married French star, Anouk Aimee.
In the UK, the magazines `Harper's Bazaar' and `Queen' merged.
In the UK, the 1,000th episode of TV's `Coronation Street' was screened.
Elvis Presley was at No.1 with `The Wonder Of You’

....and we ask you to ....GUESS THE YEAR
1970

The 'Heat Is On' Quiz

1. What are the three modes of heat transmission?
Conduction, Radiation and Convection
2. Which capital city is heated by volcanic springs?
Reykjavik
3. What's is the process of extracting metal from its ore by heating?
Smelting
4. Which sound is produced by the rapid expansion of atmospheric gases suddenly heated by lightning?
Thunder
5. If you are ironing clothes, which requires the greatest heat, wool, linen or nylon?
Linen
6. Lyrics from which 80's song - "Strange voices are saying, Things I can't understand, It's too close for comfort, This heat has got, Right out of hand"?
Cruel Summer - Bananarama
7. What name is given to the hardening of rubber by heating it at high temperatures with sulphur?
Vulcanization
8. Which foodstuff was advertised as being “Central Heating For Kids”?
Ready Brek
9. What is a hypocaust?
Roman heating system
10. Which film won the best picture Oscar in 1967?
In the heat of the night
11. Who played the thief Neil McCauley in the 1995 film “Heat”?
Robert De Niro
12. What is measured in Scroville Units?
The heat of chillies
13. In food, what does UHT mean on the carton?
Ultra Heat Treatment
14. What name is given to the medical condition when you suffer from a dangerous loss of body heat?
Hypothermia
15. What word can follow crime, heat and new?
Wave
16. What is the scientific name for the heat absorbed to change solids to liquids or liquids into gases without a rise in temperature ?
Latent (Heat)
17. Which metal is the best conductor of heat and electricity ?
Silver
18. The process of heating beer or wine with spices and sugar to make a hot drink is known as what?
Mulling
19. Who appeared opposite Kathleen Turner in the film Body heat?
William Hurt
20. Sufferers of ‘cutis anserina’ usually seek heat as a cure, what is it?
Goose pimples

- If reactants can be converted into products by a series of reactions, the sum of the heats of these reactions is equal to the heat of reaction for direct conversion. This is a statement of whose law in chemistry?
Germain Henri Hess (Hess's law)

- Which 19th century French scientist, usually regarded as the founder of thermodynamics, has the most efficient cycle of operations for a reversible heat engine named after him?
(Nicolas Léonard) Sadi Carnot

Quiztime's Spain Quiz

1. What is the capital of Spain?
Madrid
2. Who ruled Spain from 1939 to 1975?
General Franco
3. Which is nearest to mainland Spain, Majorca, Minorca, or Ibiza?
Ibiza
4. In which sport is the 'Vuelta' contested in Spain?
Cycling
5. Which colours make up the flag of Spain?
Red and Gold with an eagle in its crest
6. Which language, spoken in northern Spain and south-west France, is unrelated to any other language?
Euskara (accept Basque)
7. In which country was King Juan Carlos of Spain born?
Italy
8. In Spain which is the “golden coast”?
Costa Dorado
9. Which region of Spain has Barcelona as its capital?
Catalonia
10. Which English Queen married Philip 2nd of Spain?
Mary I
11. Who is the Patron Saint of Spain?
St James
12. In the nursery rhyme, whose daughter "came to visit me, all for the sake of my little nut tree"?
The King of Spain
13. The cities of Seville and Cadiz are located in which region of Spain?
Andalucia
14. Which insect in Spain is known as La Cucaracha?
The Cockroach
15. In Spain what are Paradors?
State owned tourist hotels
16. In Spain, what is manchego?
Sheep's cheese
17. Which range of mountains lies between Granada and the south coast of Spain?
Sierra Nevada
18. What is the national flower of Spain?
Carnation
19. Which important port in Spain was known to the Romans as Brigantium?
La Coruna OR Corunna
20. What is the most popular spectator sport in Spain?
Football of course… not Bullfighting!

21. Name the five largest cities in Spain (in population terms)?
Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Zaragoza
22. The town of Jerez in Spain gave its name to which drink?
Sherry
23. Which dance (in which dancers make abrupt turns and perform complicated steps in syncopated rhythms) is considered to be the national dance of Spain?
Bolero
24. Born in Malaga, Andalusia in 1881, name the Spanish painter who, after 1901, simply signed his paintings with his mother's maiden name?
Picasso
25. The most famous Spanish festival is the running of the bulls in July in which city?
Pamplona
26. Name the main city of the Basque region which has its own language and cultural identity?
Bilbao
27. If you were served 'el helado' in Spain, what would you have?
Ice Cream
28. Which famous sailor said that he ‘Singed the King of Spain’s beard’?
Sir Francis Drake
29. Which two groups of islands belong to Spain?
Balearic and Canary Islands
30. Which mountain range lies along the boundary of France and Spain?
Pyrenees
31. Who were Spain’s opponents in the War of Jenkins Ear?
Britain
32. Which town in Central Spain is famous for it’s swords and knives?
Toledo
33. Which form of Spanish is the official language of Spain?
Castillian
34. Born near Saragossa, who became court painter to Charles III of Spain in 1786?
Goya
35. Which fruit is the national symbol of Spain?
Pomegranate
36. Which area of Spain literally translates as the "Sunshine Coast"?
Costa del Sol
37. Which institution, founded in 1231 by Pope Gregory 9th, was revived in Spain in 1478 against Jews, Muslims and later Protestants?
Inquisition
38. What is Spain's National Airline called?
Iberia
39. Madrid stands on which river?
Manzanares
40. What is Spain’s highest mountain?
Mount Teide - (Tenerife – 12,190 ft)

Tiebreaker - In which year did Spain become the first European country outside Britain to stage the Ryder Cup?
1997

QUIZTIME UK 2006

Warm Beer

As temperatures have soared to 34C in London and the South East pub licensees and managers have reported mixed fortunes from the exceptionally hot weather.

Beer gardens have been busy across the country as customers flocked to enjoy the good weather.

John Donohue, manager of the Dog and Duck in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, said: "Our beer garden has been packed out, when it's hot and the sun shines like it been we really fill up.

"We have made about 30 per cent more sales".

Not all pubs though have had such a boom in business, Wendy Deary, licensee of the Pig and Whistle near Totnes, Devon has seen sales drop as the high temperature has affected kept some customers away.

"People aren't coming in for Sunday lunch and families with children are staying away, it's just too hot for them to drive here," she said.

Mavis Harris, licensee of The Swan and Railway in Manchester also commented: "The day times have been really quiet, it has just been too hot to eat."

Whilst customers in beer gardens have been heating up, Cask Marque, the body that inspects tens of thousands of pints of real ale a year to guarantee quality, has criticised pubs for serving beer as warm as bathwater.

Cask Marque quality assessors found pubs in Cumbria, Keswick, Salisbury and Wiltshire were serving pints well above the recommended temperature of somewhere between 11 and 13C. One inspector in Dartford was served a 30C pint, which he described as being "more akin to bathwater than beer".

Licensees at Samuel Smith's pubs have been told not to serve customers full pints - unless they ask for them.

The Tadcaster-based brewer has written to its managers telling them pints of cask ale are to be served with a five per cent head.

The letter said serving pints that are 95 per cent liquid and five per cent head is "entirely in line with statutory rules" and is simply reflecting what most of their customers want.

Most pubs serve pints with a head and offer a top up to a full pint if the customer asks for it. Legally a 95 per cent liquid pint is allowable, but the letter from Samuel Smith's is thought to be the first time a brewery or pubco has admitted encouraging licensees to serve less than a 100 per cent liquid pint.

John Grogan, chairman of the All-party Parliamentary Beer Group, whose Selby constituency covers the Samuel Smith's brewery, suggested brewers introduce slightly larger glasses to allow them to serve a full pint and a head - a move the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has been backing for many years..

CAMRA spokesman Owen Morris said: "When you ask for a pint of beer you should receive 100 per cent liquid as this is what you're paying for."

A spokesman for Samuel Smith's declined to comment on the issue.

Today's The Day - 20th July

20th July 2006
National day of Colombia.

Religious Events today...
Feast day of St Margaret of Antioch,
St Elias of Jerusalem,
St Ansegisus,
St Aurelius of Carthage,
St Flavian of Antioch,
St Wulmar,
St Gregory Lopez,
St Wilgefortis or Liberata,
and St Joseph Barsabas the Just.

History Test for July 20th
Which actress and cook broke off her engagement to Paul McCartney on live, national television today in 1968? -Jane Asher
Which Prime Minister announced today in 1957: "Most of our people have never had it so good"? -Harold Macmillan
Which World War Two leader narrowly survived an assassination attempt today in 1944? -Adolf Hitler
The first man to set foot on Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary, was born today in 1919. What nationality is he? -New Zealander
What popular sport was legalised in England today in 1875? -Football

Events today...
1588 The Spanish Armada set sail for England from Corunna, a day later than planned because of a storm.
1629 English adventurer Sir David Kirke seized Quebec from the French.
1808 Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, entered Madrid as Spanish patriots conquered the French army at Bailen.
1837 London's first railway station was opened at Euston.
1845 Charles Sturt became the first European to enter Simpson's Desert in central Australia.
1885 Professional football was legalized in Britain.
1903 Death of Pope Leo XIII.
1912 Death of Andrew Lang, Scottish historian and folklore scholar.
1937 Italian physicist and inventor Guglielmo Marconi, pioneer of wireless telegraphy, died in Rome aged 63.
1940 In the USA, Billboard published the first singles-record charts.
1944 An attempt was made on the life of Adolf Hitler by Count Claus von Stauffenberg, a German staff officer, who planted a bomb under the table of a meeting room in Hitler's headquarters. Von Stauffenberg was executed the same day.
1951 King Abdullah of Jordan was shot dead outside a mosque.
1954 The Geneva Agreement brought about a cessation of hostilities between North and South Vietnam.
1957 Prime Minister Harold Macmillan first made his famous speech "Lets be frank about it. Most of our people have never had it so good," at a Conservative rally in Bradford.
1962 The world's first regular hovercraft passenger service began running on the Dee estuary.
1968 Jane Asher stunned listeners to the BBC radio programme Dee Time, hosted by Simon Dee, with the news that her engagement to Beatle Paul McCartney was off.
1970 Chancellor of the Exchequer Iain Macleod died of a heart attack at the age of 56.
1973 It was revealed that Lee Yuen Kam, better known as Kung Fu film star Bruce Lee, reputedly the fittest man on Earth was found dead in the bathroom of actress Betty Ting Pei in Hong Kong, the previous night. It was thought he died of a swollen brain, possibly brought on by an allergic reaction to aspirin.
1975 After an 11-month journey, the US uncrewed Viking 1 made a soft landing on Mars and started sending back television pictures.
1979 22-year-old Spanish golfer Seve Ballesteros became only the second golfer from continental Europe to win the British Open championship.
1979 The Sandinista National Liberation Front took power in Nicaragua after ousting General Somoza, whose family had ruled the country since 1933.
1982 Two guardsmen and seven army horses were killed, and seventeen spectators injured, when an IRA bomb exploded while they were en route to Horse Guards Parade for the changing of the guard.
1983 A report published in the UK revealed that more than 410,000 of those aged between 18 to 25 had been out of work for more than a year.
1983 A series of 123 letters written by the Irish poet and playwright W.B.Yeats between 1935 and 1938 were sold for £18,360 at Christie's.
1983 Channel 4 made its first public admission that it was having difficulty in attracting the audiences and advertising revenues which it originally expected when it was launched in November 1982.
1983 Lynda Chalker, Under Secretary of State for Transport, announced that driving instructors would have to pass a stricter test in future before being registered.
1984 A thief stole property worth £35,000 from television and radio presenter Jimmy Saville's flat in the West End of London.
1984 Tagliacozzi's 'De Curtorum Chirurgia' which was thought to have been the first modern book on plastic surgery and was published in Venice in 1597 fetched £11,550 at a Sotheby's auction.
1984 Annette Kitchener from Stroud, Gloucestershire, was put on probation for two years after she was convicted of accepting £12,000 of reverse charge calls from her boyfriend in Florida in public telephone boxes.
1986 Australian golfer Greg Norman won the British Open golf championship.
1988 The Government revealed a £7,000 million share plan for the English and Welsh water authorities.
1988 The Labour Party approved plans to replace the poll tax with two new local taxes; a property tax based on the value of homes combined with a local income tax.
1989 According to a published survey the stereotype of a man who knocks back pints of beer and likes to be considered "one of the lads" was a dwindling breed in Britain. He wished to be seen as sensitive and understanding.
1989 English comedian Harry Worth died.
1989 The Secretary of State for the Environment Nicholas Ridley announced that the maximum fine for dropping litter was to be increased from £400 to £1,000.
1989 The Under Secretary of State for Defence Michael Neubert announced that women were to be trained to fly a whole range of RAF aircraft including Hercules transport planes, early warning Awacs and Tristar jets.
1995 The Oueen Mother was recovering at Clarence House after an operation to remove a cataract from her left eye.
1995 A government report recommended that emergency calls to the ambulance service should be ranked according to urgency. Fewer than one in seven calls are for life-threatening conditions and almost a third are for trivial injuries.
1995 A gardener who attacked a drunken vandal for uprooting an ornamental tree in his garden was fined £100. He gave a teenager six of the best with an 18inch stick. He said: 'I gave him the good old-fashioned spanking he deserved.'
1995 Ronnie Kray left under £10,000 in his will. Fred Dineage, his biographer, said he gave away a fortune during the 26 years he spent in prison and secure hospital. 'People would write to him in jail asking for his help to send sick children to America or making a plea for assistance.'
1995 The Prince of Wales launched 'Adopt a Veg', an appeal to save thousands of vegetable varieties which are threatened with extinction because it is no longer legal under EU regulations to sell their seed.
1995 Mary Francis became the first woman to be appointed assistant private secretary to the Queen.
1995 Thousands of American Express customers were charged twice after an error by computer staff. Those using their cards on the July 8th were billed twice for each transaction.
1998 Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott issued a white paper stating that the government would introduce a tax on parking places provided by companies, and tolls on major routes into city centres to fight congestion and pollution.
1998 Martin Bell, MP for Tatton and former newsreader, married his 32-year-old bride at a private ceremony in Cheshire.
2003 Liberian rebels tried a new, eastern route into Monrovia as they faught government forces for the capital.
2003 Medical sources said that the exiled former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was on life support in hospital in Saudi Arabia.
2003 BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan denied he "misquoted or misrepresented" Dr David Kelly in his controversial report on an Iraq weapons dossier.
2003 French police established a Corsican link to the two blasts in the city of Nice that slightly injured 16 people.
2003 Italy's prime minister said that from now on he will try to become boring to avoid any fresh political gaffes.
2003 US record industry officials won over 870 subpoenas to identify music pirates.
2003 Golf: American rookie Ben Curtis wins the Open by one shot after a rollercoaster final round at Sandwich.
2003 Ferrari's Rubens Barrchello won an eventful British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
2004 Philippine lorry driver Angelo de la Cruz was freed by his kidnappers in Iraq after Manila pulled out its troops.
2004 Two men were convicted of taking part in one of Britain's biggest robberies at an exclusive London jewellers.
2004 Chelsea signed Marseille striker Didier Drogba on a three-year deal.
2004 Lance Armstrong took the race lead after winning stage 15 of the Tour de France.
2004 Everton director Arthur Abercromby quit to plunge the club into further turmoil.
2005 Actor James Doohan, who played the chief engineer Montgomery Scott in Star Trek, died at the age of 85.
2005 Actor Ray Winstone accused the government of harming the UK film industry by closing tax loopholes.
2005 Liverpool signed Peter Crouch for £7m.

BIRTHDAYS (for 20 July 2006) John Charles Reith, 117 (born 20 July 1889)
Baron Reith. The first Director-General of the BBC, from 1927 to 1938. He was an engineer and entered the field of radio communications. He was the first general manager of the BBC from 1922 to 1927.
Sir Edmund Hillary, 87 (born 20 July 1919)
New Zealand mountain climber and the first man to reach the summit of Everest
Jacques Delores, 81 (born 20 July 1925)
French and EC politician, who was the former President of the Commission of the European Community
Nelson Doubleday, 73 (born 20 July 1933)
baseball executive.
Ted Rogers, 71 (born 20 July 1935)
Television presenter and game Show host
Dame Diana Rigg CBE, 68 (born 20 July 1938)
English actress who was with the Royal Shakespeare Company but became famous as Emma Peel in 'The Avengers' on television. Her other appearances on TV include 'King Lear', 'Bleak House' and 'Mother Love'
Natalie Wood, 68 (born 20 July 1938)
(Deceased) American film actress of the 1960s who was married to Robert Wagner. Her films include 'Splendour in the Grass', 'West Side Story' and 'Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice'. She drowned after falling from a yacht in 1981
Kim Carnes, 61 (born 20 July 1945)
Singer best known for `Bette Davis Eyes'
Wendy Richard, 60 (born 20 July 1946)
British stage and television actress, born in Middlesbrough. She sang with Mike Sarne on the single `Come Outside' which reached number 1 in 1962. Her TV career has been extensive with appearances in 'Hugh and I', 'The Arthur Haynes Show', 'Dixon of Dock
Charlie Magri, 50 (born 20 July 1956)
Former British and European flyweight champion
Paul Cook, 50 (born 20 July 1956)
The Sex Pistols
Mike McNeil, 48 (born 20 July 1958)
Simple Minds

GUESS THE YEAR
Gary Megson was named as the new manager of Stockport County, following the departure of Dave Jones to Southampton.
Hollywood legend Robert Michum died.
Actor James Stewart, died.
Briton Tim Henman completed the most important win of his career with a four set victory over the champion Richard Krajicek to reach the quater-finals. The Dutchman had no answer to Henman’s precise and powerful tennis.
In Labour’s first budget for 18 years, the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, reduced MIRAS tax relief on mortgages to 10 percent.
Three children from St. James’ High School in Bolton were killed as the minibus in which they were travelling, left the road during a school trip in the French Alps.
Poland Hungary and the Czech Republic were admitted to NATO.
More than 70 people died when fire swept through a holiday hotel in Thailand.
Bradford Bulls beat Salford Reds 34-14 at Odsal -- their 17th straight victory on the way to winning the Super League title.
The co-joined twins born earlier in the year, returned to Manchester, following their seperation in London the previous month.
Top fashion designer, Gianni Versace was shot and killed in Miami by a murderer who, as eye-witnesses said, “just walked calmly away, and hailed a taxi”.
Prince Charles hosted a 50th birthday party at Highgrove for his friend Camilla Parker Bowles.

....and we ask you to ....GUESS THE YEAR
1997

Women First - Quiz

What specifically were the following women the first to do?

1 Valentina Terishkova 1963?
2 Anna Ford 1978?
3 Amy Johnson 1930?
4 Sirimavo Bandaranaike 1960?
5 Anita Lonsborough 1962?
6 Mary Tudor 1553?
7 Gertrude Ederle 1926?
8 Angela Rippon 1976?
9 Marilyn Monroe 1953?
10 Charlotte Brew 1977?
11 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson 1859?
12 Constance, Countess Markievicz 1918?
13 Geraldine Rees 1982?
14 Nancy Astor 1919?
15 Maureen Connolly 1953?
16 Dr Sally Ride 1983?
17 Madeline Albright 1997?
18 Aretha Frankin 1987?
19 Amelia Earhart 1934?
20 Helen Sharman 1991?

Answers - Highlight Below
1 First woman in space
2 First female ITN newsreader
3 First woman to fly solo England to Australia
4 First female Prime Minster in the world
5 First female winner of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award
6 First female monarch to rule England / Britain in her own right
7 First woman to swim the English Channel
8 First prime time female BBC newsreader
9 First Playboy centrefold
10 First woman to compete in the Grand National
11 First woman doctor in the UK
12 First elected woman MP in the UK
13 First female jockey to complete the Grand National
14 First woman to take her seat in the House of Commons
15 First woman to complete the tennis "Grand Slam"
16 First US woman to go into space
17 First female Secretary of State
18 First woman to be inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame
19 First female solo flight across the Atlantic
20 First British woman in space

A to Z Quiz of Ships & Shipping

A Jason's ship when he sought the Golden Fleece?
B Cargo of the HMS Bounty on its 1789 voyage from Tahiti?
C Most famous submarine of Jacques Costeau?
D The first British nuclear submarine launched in 1960?
E Swedish owned ferry which sank in the Baltic in 1994, killing 852 people?
F Small oared or sailed vessel used in the Mediterranean?
G Francis Chichester's yacht when he sailed single handedly around the globe in 1967?
H Cross channel ferry which capsized in the North Sea in 1987?
I Second aircraft carrier to leave for the Falkland Islands in 1982?
J Chinese flat-bottomed sailing vessel?
K Thor Heyerdahl's balsa-wood raft sailed across the Pacific in 1947?
L Cunard liner sank by a German torpedo off the Irish coast in 1915?
M Vessel on which the Japanese surrendered on 2 September 1945?
N Norwegian Antarctic explorer who sailed on the Fram?
O Port of Rome?
P Port of Athens?
Q Former Cunard flagship now a floating hotel in Long Beach, California?
R Greenpeace flagship sunk by the French in Auckland Harbour in 1985?
S Christopher Columbus' flagship on his voyage to the New World in 1492?
T Container port for London?
U Vessel which struck their first successes against warships in 1914?
V First ship to circumnavigate the globe in 1522?
W First iron hulled battleship, now on display in Portsmouth?
Y Flag which signifies a diseased ship?
Z Belgian port from which "H" sailed on its last voyage in 1987?

Answers - Highlight Below
Argo
Breadfruit
Calypso
Dreadnought
Estonia
Felucca
Gypsy Moth IV
Herald of Free Enterprise
Invincible
Junk
Kon Tiki
Luisitania
Missouri
Nansen
Ostia
Piraeus
Queen Mary
Rainbow Warrior
Santa Maria
Tilbury
U-boat
Vittoria
Warrior
Yellow
Zeebrugge

Today's The Day - 19th July

19th July 2006

Religious Events today...
Feast Day of St Ambrose Autpert,
St Arsenius the Great,
St James of Nisibia,
St Symmachus, pope,
and St John Plesington.

History Test for July 19th
Marilyn Monroe filmed her first screen test today in 1946, but for which major studio? -Twentieth Century Fox
Samuel Colt was born today in 1814. How many bullets does a Colt .45 revolver hold? -Six
Which British king excluded his wife from his own Coronation today in 1821? -George IV
Which sporting championship was won for the first time by Spencer Gore today in 1877? -The Wimbledon Men's Singles title
Name Henry VIII's flagship, which keeled over and sank in the Solent today in 1545. -The Mary Rose

Events today...
1374 Death of Petrarch, Italian poet.
1545 The Mary Rose, the pride of Henry VIII's battle fleet, keeled over and sank in the Solent with the loss of 700 lives. (The ship was raised 11 Oct 1982 to be taken to Portsmouth Dockyard.)
1553 Mary Tudor was proclaimed Queen of England. Her predecessor Lady Jane Grey had been confined to the Tower atter only a nine-day reign.
1814 Death of Matthew Flinders, English navigator and explorer of Australia.
1821 George IV was crowned King.
1837 Isambard Kingdom Brunel's steamship the Great Western was launched in Bristol - the first steamship to provide a regular transatlantic service.
1848 At a convention in a Seneca Falls, New York, female rights campaigner Amelia Bloomer introduced `Bloomers' to the world.
1877 The first ever men's final at Wimbledon took place, won by Spencer Gore.
1903 The first Tour de France cycle race was won by Maurice Garin.
1939 Death of Tom Hayward, English cricketer.
1949 Laos gained independence.
1952 The 15th Olympic Games opened in Helsinki.
1965 Death of Syngman Rhee, Korean politician.
1966 Frank Sinatra married Mia Farrow in Las Vegas.
1973 Death of Clarence White, US pop guitarist.
1983 A Liverpool school attended by Paul McCartney and George Harrison was condemned in a report published by the school inspectors.
1983 At Bury St Edmunds Crown Court, Judge Richards, who earlier caused controversy when he fined a man for raping a teenage girl who he had blamed for the incident, was at the centre of another row after telling would-be suicides to be more diligent in their attempts. "I wish these people would show more efficiency about these overdoses. How much trouble they would save."
1983 It was announced that the fossil remains of an unknown species of dinosaur had been discovered in a claypit in Surrey.
1984 General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, Moss Evans, was awarded substantial libel damages over allegations made in Private Eye magazine that he was a strike breaking scab.
1984 Italian cyclist Carlo Tonon remained in a coma after crashing into a spectator and falling during the nineteenth leg of the Tour de France.
1984 Seismologists from The British Geological Survey in Edinburgh were investigating Britain's most powerful earth tremors for over a century. The earthquake was felt by millions of people from eastern and Northern Ireland to Leicestershire and from north Lancashire to Bristol.
1985 Large quantities of Austrian wine were revealed to contain a chemical similar to anti-freeze.
1988 The BBC was condemned by an all-party committee of MPs for a "catalogue of management incompetence" that led to the outbreak of legionnaires' disease at its Portland Place headquarters.
1988 The Gulf War flared again with an Iraqi bombing attack only a day after Tehran's decision to accept a UN resolution calling for a cease-fire.
1988 The House of Lords threw out a proposal by John Moore, Secretary of State for Social Services, to charge patients for eye tests and dental check-ups.
1989 450 haemophiliacs who were infected by the HIV virus or contracted AIDS were to sue the Government and individual authorities for damages.
1989 Smiths Foods announced they had withdrawn all stocks of Smiths Square Crisps and Crispy Tubes after broken glass and other objects were found in sealed packets.
1990 According to a survey carried out by local authority careers officers, girls were more concerned than boys in improving their education 48% of the pupils surveyed stayed in full-time education - 52.4% girls and 41.7% boys.
1990 Barristers and solicitors joined forces to launch a campaign to raise £1 million for the homeless, many of whom were to be found around the Inns of Court. LawAid '90 was the first charity event of its kind organised by the legal profession.
1990 Signal International, a market research company, found that Britain's over-55s spent £1 in every £3. The top 10% of the over 55s, about 1.5 million people, spend £28 billion (9%) of the total amount spent annually in Britain, which was more than any other group. More than half of them owned their own homes outright.
1991 A major political scandal erupted in South Africa after the government admitted that it had made secret payments to the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party.
1995 Millions of tiny willow sawfly caterpillars invaded a residential close in Wolverhampton, reducing gardens to ruins and munching through the foliage of a line of willow trees 100 yards long.
1995 Scientists said that the fabled 'Beast of Bodmin Moor' was a domestic cat, causing outrage among farmers who insisted that a puma or black panther was at large. A farmer near Liskeard said: `This report is an expensive joke. Of course the Beast of Bodmin Moor exists. I've seen it and videoed it. These people are office workers who know nothing.'
1995 The Arts Council agreed to award £50 million from National Lottery Funds to the Royal Opera House in London to enable it to redevelop its Covent Garden site.
1995 The Tower of London was also after National Lottery money to study ways of refilling its dry moat. The study would look at ways of removing thousands of tons of soil and allowing the Thames to surround the fortress, as it did for almost 700 years.
1995 The Home Secretary, Michael Howard, said that the ancient law that allows people to get away with murder if their victims survive for a year and a day would be abolished.
1998 Seventeen-year-old Justin Rose took fourth place in the English Open Golf Championship at Royal Berkdale. As he was only an amateur, he could not collect the £70,000 prize money, but sponsorship deals resulted, enabling him to turn professional.
1998 The Royal Family were unhappy with the Mirror newspaper for printing a story telling that Princes William and Harry were organising a surprise 50th birthday part for their father, Prince Charles in November.
1999 The funeral of the actor Bill Owen, best-known as the scruffy Compo Simanite in “Last Of The Summer Wine”, took place in Holmfirth, the home of the programme. He was 85 and had just fineshed filming a Christmas special in France.
1999 Thirty years after the anniversary of the first flight to the moon, the launch of the Space Shuttle was aborted with 6 seconds to go.
2001 Jeffrey Archer was sent to prison for four years charged with perjury. This followed his 1987 libel case against the Daily Mirror, which alleged he slept with a prostitute. The newspaper claimed back its money after sufficient evidence had emerged that Archer had carefully crafted a set of lies to win that case.
2003 Police confirmed that weapons expert Dr David Kelly bled to death from a cut to his wrist, as Tony Blair came under intense pressure over the Iraq dossier affair.
2003 Russian writers condemned a "growing trend" to drop great Soviet-era dissident authors from school reading lists.
2003 British Airways staff returned to work following an unofficial walkout at Heathrow Airport, but delay chaos continued.
200 3Irish-born actor Pierce Brosnan received an honorary OBE from the British Ambassador in Dublin.
2003 Man Utd missed out on Ronaldinho as the Brazilian signed a five-year £21m deal with Barcelona.
2003 Mark Roe and Jesper Parnevik were disqualified from the Open after a mix-up with their scorecards and Tiger Woods suffered on the back nine after an early surge to end with a third-round 69.
2004 Millions of dollars were to be distributed to the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy after years of legal delay.
2004 Tony Blair heralded the end of the "1960s liberal consensus" on law and order as he trailed the government's new five year crime-cutting plan.
2004 Will Smith's "I, Robot" toppled "Spider-Man 2" at the US box office, raking in $53.3m on its opening weekend.
2004 The BBC announced plans for a new complaints procedure to make it easier for people to air grievances.

BIRTHDAYS (for 19 July 2006)
Samuel Colt, 192 (born 19 July 1814)
US inventor of the revolver
Lizzie Borden, 146 (born 19 July 1860)
Notorious American alleged murderess. She was accused of murdering her father and step-mother with an axe in 1892 but was acquitted
Dr A. J. Cronin, 110 (born 19 July 1896)
Scottish novelist (born Archibald Joseph)
John Bratby, 78 (born 19 July 1928)
(Deceased) English painter
George Hamilton IV, 69 (born 19 July 1937)
singer
Vicki Carr, 65 (born 19 July 1941)
singer
Alan Gorrie, 60 (born 19 July 1946)
Average White Band
Ilie Nastase, 60 (born 19 July 1946)
Romanian tennis player
Brian May, 59 (born 19 July 1947)
Guitarist with the band Queen, possibly one of Britain's finest groups. Their first hit was 'Seven Seas of Rhye' and in 1975 completed the seven-minute 'Bohemian Rhapsody' which stayed at the top of the UK charts for nine weeks'.
Bernie Leadon, 59 (born 19 July 1947)
rock guitarist (The Eagles)
Beth Morris, 57 (born 19 July 1949)
Scottish-born actress occasionally on TV
Adrian Noble, 56 (born 19 July 1950)
Artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company
Simon Cadell, 56 (born 19 July 1950)
(Deceased) British stage and television actor who spent most of his working life in the West End and regional theatre but was probably better known to the non-theatre-going public as Jeffrey Fairbrother in the TV comedy 'Hi-de-Hi!'.
Dominic Muldowney, 54 (born 19 July 1952)
composer
Paul Bracewell, 44 (born 19 July 1962)
footballer
Anthony Edwards, 44 (born 19 July 1962)
actor
Evelyn Glennie, 41 (born 19 July 1965)
percussionist

GUESS THE YEAR
Unionist David Trimble became the first First Minister of Northern Ireland, with a Nationalist as his deputy.
England returned home as heroes, but the record book depicted them as second-round losers, from a World cup showdown against Argentina. Beckam was the villan after being sent off for retaliation. The match the day before ended 2-2, Argentina won on penalties.
Kofi Annan announced that Nigeria would return to democracy, as political prisoners were released.
Linford Christie won £40,000 in a libel case against journalist John McVicar.
Temperatures in the Mediteranean area reached 40C in the shade. Ten holiday-makers died of heat exhaustion.
Jana Navotna won the Wimbledon Ladies title for the first time beating Nathalie Tauziat in straight sets.
Croatia beat Germany 3-0 in the quater-finals of the World Cup.
Reigning champion Pete Sampras beat Goarn Ivanisevic in five sets to win his fifth Wimbledon singles championship.
Johnny Speight, the comedy writer and creator of Alf Garnett died at the age of 78.
Caroline Aherne, best-known for the spoof TV chatshow host Mrs. Merton was admitted to hospital following a drugs overdose.
Check Lap Cock airport opened in Hong Kong. Half as big again as Heathrow it was expected to become the world’s busiest airport with an estimated 87 million passengers a year.
Roy Rogers, the singing cowboy, died at his ranch in California aged 86.

....and we ask you to ....GUESS THE YEAR
1998

Today's The Day - 18th July

18th July 2006
National day of Spain.

Religious events today...
Feast day of St Bruno of Segni,
St Pambo,
St Arnoul or Arnulf of Metz,
and St Frederick of Utrecht.

History Test for July 18th
Pele played football for Brazil for the last time today in 1971. How many times did he represent his country? -110
Born today in 1811 who wrote the literary classic `Vanity Fair'? -William Makepeace Thackeray
Born today in 1848, which cricketing great scored 54,896 runs and took 2,876 wickets during his career? -Dr. W.G. Grace
The Spanish Civil War began today - in which year? -1936
Who wrote `Mein Kampf', published today in 1925? -Adolf Hitler

Events today...
64AD The great fire began in Rome and lasted for nine days.
1610 Death of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian painter.
1712 Death of Antoine Watteau, French painter.
1762 Peter III, Tsar of Russia was murdered.
1817 Author Jane Austen died at the age of 41. Doctors were unable to diagnose her illness but medical authorities now believe she died from Addison's Disease.
1848 WG Grace was born. The cricket legend, also a qualified doctor, was an outstanding all-rounder who scored 54,896 runs and took 2,876 wickets and 871 catches in the first-class game. In 1876 he became the first man to score 300 runs in an innings and duly repeated the feat within a week. WG represented his country at bowls as well as cricket and founded the English Bowling Association in 1903. He retired from first-class cricket aged 60 in 1908. He died in 1915.
1870 The Vatican Council proclaimed the Dogma of Papal Infallibility in matters of faith and morals.
1872 The Ballot Act, which laid the foundations of our current voting system, was passed.
1892 Thomas Cook, founder of the famous travel agency, died.
1923 Under the Matrimonial Causes Bill, British women were given equal divorce rights with men.
1925 Adolf Hitler’s 'Mein Kampf' - My Struggle- written while he was imprisoned in Landsberg fortress, was published.
1934 The Mersey Tunnel was formally opened.
1936 The Spanish Civil War began when the army, led by General Franco, revolted against the Republican government.
1951 Jersey Joe Walcott knocked out Ezzard Charles to become the then oldest ever world heavyweight champion, aged 37 years and 168 days.
1955 Disneyland, the 160-acre amusement park, opened near Anaheim, California.
1969 Senator Edward Kennedy crashed his car into the Chappaquidick River on America's east coast, but while he escaped, his companion Mary Jo Kopechne drowned. His subsequent failure to report the incident for ten hours resulted in a two-month suspended sentence.
1973 Death of Jack Hawkins, British film actor.
1976 The 21st Olympic Games opened in Montreal.
1983 It was reported that an 83-year-old man in Tiberias had allowed police to destroy a suspiciously ticking package, only to learn that it contained a gold watch; his reward for banking 40 years at the National Bank of Israel.
1983 Prince Charles told a meeting of the Police Federation at Guildhall, London, that young offenders should be given a taste of army discipline.
1984 A sporting gun known as the 'Greener St George' was sold to a private collector for £10,800 at a Christie's auction. The gun was such a rarity that Christie's could not put an estimate on it.
1984 Great Britain and Argentina started official talks for the first time since the invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982. Senior diplomats began discussions which were expected to last two days in Berne.
1984 In San Ysidro, California, a security guard walked into a McDonalds and began shooting randomly, killing 20 people and wounding 16.
1984 Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Home Office David Mellor announced that the number of animal experiments had dropped by fourteen per cent. (Was this due to the fact that they have trouble lighting the Bunsen burners at school?)
1987 Mrs Thatcher was refused an honorary degree by Oxford University for the second time.
1988 Hopes of an end to the eight-year Iran-Iraq war rose when Tehran accepted a call by the United Nations Security Council for a cease-fire.
1988 Mrs Thatcher was the only western leader not to send Nelson Mandela a birthday card. (So I wonder if his mum didn’t give her a lucky bag to take home?)
1988 Spanish golfer Severiano Ballesteros won his third open championship at Royal Lytham and St Annes with a last round of 65.
1989 Bert Hooks won the Queen's Cup for the sixth year running for having the best cottage garden on the 20,104 acre Royal Estate at Sandringham.
1989 Local Government workers began a three-day strike.
1989 Twelve-year-old Emmett De Monterey from Lewisham, south-east London became the first Briton to undergo surgery at Newington Children's Hospital, Connecticut, which could help sufferers of cerebral palsy to walk
1990 A pilot scheme by Unigate selling organically produced "green top" milk in Torbay, Devon, proved so successful that the company was to expand the sales nationwide.
1990 British nurse Daphne Parish arrived back in England after being released from a 15-year prison sentence in Iraq. She had been imprisoned after being found allegedly spying with the journalist Farzad Bazoft (who was later hanged).
1990 In a report by the Policy Studies Institute, video hire was worth £478 million in 1988, against f283 million in 1984. Compact disc sales were £7 million in 1984 but worth £288 million in 1988. Children's programmes were bought rnore than any other video cassette. The value of admissions to live arts events rose from £170 million in 1980 to £440 million in 1988. The West End theatre took £50 million in 1984 and £110 million in 1988.
1990 Shepherd Homes of York revealed plans for a new town of 2,250 houses at Acaster airfield, south of York, costing £200 million.
1990 Two English girls, 17-year-old Patricia Cahill and 19-year-old Karen Smith were arrested at Bangkok airport for attempting to smuggle a consignment of heroin worth £4 million onto a flight to Amsterdam.
1993 Death of Jean Negulesco, Romanian-born US film director.
1995 A 70-year-old woman was stung more than 200 times by a swarm of bees in Blackburn and was taken to hospital where she was recovering. (I was stung by a bee on last Tuesday, 93p for a jar of honey!)
1995 The second 24-hour rail strike crippled the rail network. 325 out of the normal 18,000 trains ran. (A better percentage than when the wrong type of snow fell!)
1995 It was announced that the BBC World Service was to cut back on programming and staff in 1996 because of a £5 million shortfall in its budget.
1995 Polar explorer, David Hempleman-Adams, was seeking eight people prepared to undertake a 300-mile trek to the North Pole. They would have to pay £15,000 each for the privilege.
1995 Cambridge University was given £3 million by a Japanese businessman to enhance the study of Japan and its language.
1995 Robbie Williams, of the group Take That, decided to leave the band, leaving million of teenagers in mourning. The news editor of Music Week, Martin Talbot, said 'I don't rate his prospects of a solo career. He's a bit of a dancer. who can sing a few lines, and can't play an instrument. Mind you, that might be to his advantage.'
1995 Express Newspapers announced 220 redundancies on three national titles.
1995 Stella Marie Thompson, the prostitute arrested with Hugh Grant, pleaded not guilty to lewd behaviour with the actor in a public place, in a Hollywood courtroom. (This prostitute approached me last Thursday and said that any thing I could say in three in words she would do for £10. So I said “Service my car.”)
1997 Prince Charles hosted a 50th birthday party at Highgrove for his friend Camilla Parker Bowles.
1998 Nelson Mandela married Graca Machel, the former First Lady of Mozambique, at his home in Johannesburg.
1998 Team Festina withdrew from the Tour de France after admitting that riders had been routinely taking performance enhancing drugs under the supervision of the team doctor.
1999 John F Kennedy Junior was missing presumed dead of the coast of New York. The son of the former president of the USA was flying a light aircraft to a family wedding the previous night.
1999 Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood was shot in a drive-by shooting incident after ignoring gangland threats by “Yardies”.
2003 UK Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Japan, on an Asia tour overshadowed by questions about the Iraq war.
2003 Police said a body found in the search for a missing Iraq arms expert matches Dr David Kelly, as the government announced a judicial inquiry.
2003 A wildcat strike by British Airways ground staff forced the airline to cancel all its flights from Heathrow Airport's Terminal One.
2003 The US suspended military court proceedings against all UK and Australian suspects held at Guantanamo Bay.
2004 Israeli PM Ariel Sharon urged Jews in France to relocate to escape anti-Semitic attacks, sparking French anger.
2004 People who own expensive homes faced thousands more in council tax as part of a funding shake-up.
2004 Sir Ben Kingsley was among the stars attending the UK premiere of the new Thunderbirds film in London.
2004 A judge ordered singer Courtney Love to appear in court for sentencing 24 hours after her hospital release.
2004 Little-known American Todd Hamilton beat Ernie Els in a play-off to clinch the Open title at Royal Troon.
2004 Andy Cole joined Fulham from Blackburn on a free transfer.
2004 Decathlete Dean Macey booked his place in Great Britain's Olympic team.
2004 Marseille admitted Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba was set for a move to Chelsea.
2005 Hurricane Emily felled trees, flooded streets and knocked out power along parts of Mexico's Caribbean coast.
2005 The three main parties reached agreement on new terror laws in the wake of the London bomb attacks.
2005 The new Harry Potter book sold almost 9 million copies in the UK and US in 24 hours, beating sales records.
2005 Shaun Wright-Phillips joined Chelsea on a five-year contract.

BIRTHDAYS (for 18 July 2006)
Gilbert White, 286 (born 18 July 1720)
English naturalist, who wrote 'The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne'
W. M. Thackeray, 195 (born 18 July 1811)
English novelist and poet
W.G. Grace, 158 (born 18 July 1848)
English cricketer
Hume Cronyn, 95 (born 18 July 1911)
Veteran actor, American stage and films
Red Skelton, 93 (born 18 July 1913)
American comedian of radio and TV, who made a lot of films in the 40s including 'Lady Be Good' and 'Ship Ahoy'
Kenneth Armitage, 90 (born 18 July 1916)
Sculptor
Nelson Mandela, 88 (born 18 July 1918)
President of South Africa
Senator John Glenn, 85 (born 18 July 1921)
American astronaut, politician and aviator
John Glenn, 85 (born 18 July 1921)
astronaut
Bryan Johnson, 80 (born 18 July 1926)
(Deceased) Actor and singer - represented Britain in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1980 with 'Looking High, High, High'
Elizabeth Jennings, 80 (born 18 July 1926)
Award-winning poet and author
Richard Pasco CBE, 80 (born 18 July 1926)
British classical stage and screen actor, sometimes seen on TV
Screaming Jay Hawkins, 77 (born 18 July 1929)
R&B singer
Edward Bond, 72 (born 18 July 1934)
British director and playwright
Sir Garfield Sobers, 70 (born 18 July 1936)
(cricket) -- Former West Indies all-rounder
Professor Hugh Stephenson, 68 (born 18 July 1938)
Journalist, author and former editor of the New Statesman
Brian Auger, 67 (born 18 July 1939)
Sixties pop star
Dion DiMucci, 67 (born 18 July 1939)
Dion & The Belmonts
Martha Reeves, 65 (born 18 July 1941)
Of TheVandellas. During the sixties Martha and the Vandellas had many hits including 'Heat Wave', Dancing in the Street' and 'Nowhere to Run'
James Brolin, 65 (born 18 July 1941)
actor
Dave Cash, 64 (born 18 July 1942)
disc-jockey
James Faulkner, 58 (born 18 July 1948)
actor
David Hemery, 58 (born 18 July 1948)
(athletics) -- 1968 Olympic 400m hurdles champion
Jim Watt, 58 (born 18 July 1948)
(boxing) -- One-time WBC world lightweight champion- now TV commentator
Dennis Lillee, 57 (born 18 July 1949)
(cricket) -- Former Australian fast bowler
Richard Branson, 56 (born 18 July 1950)
Founder and chairman of the Virgin Group
Nick Faldo, 49 (born 18 July 1957)
(golf) -- Winner of six Majors
Nigel Twist, 48 (born 18 July 1958)
The Alarm

GUESS THE YEAR
According to the Nationwide Building Society, house prices fell in June by 1%, bringing them to a lower level than in 1994 and dashing hopes of a property market recovery.
Two teenagers saved the life of a newborn girl they found in a pink blanket lying between headstones in a graveyard. Doctors at a Liverpool hospital said she had been close to dying of hypothermia.
Britain's Chris Boardman crashed out of the three-week Tour de France. He fell heavily on a left-hand bend and sustained broken bones.
A Burmese python snake escaped from a garden in Ilford, north east London, and was being hunted by police. The pet; although not poisonous,. can swallow prey as large as a rabbit.
A woman of 49 wanted to become the first person in Britain to give birth to her own grandchild. She was planning to have a baby for her daughter who was born without a womb.
The inhabitants of Christmas Island. in the Pacific, where Britain carried out nuclear tests, appealed for help in clearing up hundreds of tons of military waste. A former serviceman who recently visited the island said. 'rusting earth-moving equipment and machinery blot the landscape. Mobile cranes, trucks of all descriptions and amphibious landing craft lay up-ended and dead in their tracks. Stockpiles of 40-gallon drums of bitumen lie rusting and piled high, their contents seepmg into the jungle floor.'
The American player Jeff Tarango, was thrown out of Wimbledon after yelling insults at a French umpire Tarango's wife slapped the official on the face. She gatecrashed her husband's press conference saying. 'I don't think that's bad. This guy deserved a lesson
According to the Campaign for Real Ale, beer prices were rising at twice the rate of inflation.
The Archbishop of Canterbury's son, Mark Carey, was ordained as a priest at a ceremony at Wakefield Cathedral.
Britain's first womens' radio station was to go on the air in London on July 4. Viva hoped to reach 400,000 women aged between 25-45. ('Britain's first women's radio station' - a claim refuted by fans of the 1960s pirate station Radio 390, which broadcast as 'Eve - The Woman’s Magazine of the Air' from a former flak-tower off the Kent coast).
British conservationists and the Chinese Government launched an ambitious attempt to save the last giant pandas from poachers, land clearance and in-breeding. Only a thousand giant pandas were left in the wild.

....and we ask you to ....GUESS THE YEAR
1995

Today's The Day - 17th July

17th July 2006

Religious Events today...
Feast day of The Seven Apostles of Bulgaria,
St Clement of Okhrida and his Companions,
St Leo IV, pope,
St Ennodius,
St Kenelm,
St Speratus and his Companions,
St Marcellina,
and St Nerses Lampronazi.
History Test for July 17th
Born today in 1889, who created the detective Perry Mason? -Erle Stanley Gardner
Today in 1793, Charlotte Corday was sent to the guillotine. Which French revolutionary leader did she kill in the bath? -Jean Paul Marat
Who devised the theatrical revue `Oh! Calcutta', which opened in New York today in 1969? -Kenneth Tynan
Nicknamed `Lady Day', which singer died today in 1959? -Billie Holiday
Who wrote the economic classic `The Wealth Of Nations' and died today in 1790? -Adam Smith

Events today...
1453 With the defeat of the English at the Battle of Castillon, the Hundred Years' War between France and England came to an end.
1790 Death of Adam Smith, Scottish economist.
1793 Charlotte Corday, murderess of Marat was executed.
1841 The first issue of the humorous magazine Punch was published in London.
1903 Death of James McNeill Whistler, US painter.
1917 The Royal Family adopted the title House of Windsor to replace House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
1945 The Potsdam Conference of Allied leaders Truman, Stalin, and Churchill (later replaced by Attlee) began.
1946 Dragolub Mihajlovic, Serbian nationalist was executed.
1955 Stirling Moss won the British Grand Prix, his first grand prix victory.
1959 Death of Billy Holiday, US jazz singer.
1964 Donald Campbell attained a new world land-speed record of over 403 mph in his Bluebird, on the salt flats of Lake Eyre in South Australia.
1967 Britain's first Anti-Litter Week was launched by the Keep Britain Tidy group.
1975 The US Apollo spacecraft and the Russian Soyuz craft successfully docked while in orbit.
1979 Sebastian Coe set a new mile record in Oslo with a time of 3 minutes 48 95 seconds.
1981 The Humber Estuary Bridge, the world's longest single-span structure, was officially opened by the Queen.
1983 Police and 2,000 volunteers hunted in vain for a girl missing for 10 days from her home in Edinburgh in the biggest search of its kind ever mounted in Scotland.
1984 Fans of film actress Marlene Dietrich were attempting to raise the £11,000 she owed in rent on her Paris flat.
1984 The Information Technology Minister Kenneth Baker announced that Britain was to take part in a £325 million European Space project, a remote weather sensing satellite which was to be launched in 1989.
1984 The Safeway supermarket chain withdrew frozen frog's legs from sale as they were not satisfied that the frogs were being slaughtered humanely.
1985 The Live Aid appeal reached the £50 million mark.
1988 A rally was held in Hyde Park demanding the release of Nelson Mandela.
1988 Clowns and other performers rescued spectators when a seven-tier block of seats collapsed during a show by Chipperfield Circus at Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
1988 French film stars launched a petition to save Fouquet's, the famous Champs Elysees restaurant, from closure.
1988 President Saddam Hussein of Iraq offered Iran peace after nearly eight years of war.
1988 The Government proposed a code of practice to curb unscrupulous and incompetent estate agents.
1989 The Stealth bomber, the world's most revolutionary warplane made its maiden flight after eighteen months delay. The bomber was the result of ten years top secret work.
1990 Labour leader Neil Kinnock had a meeting with President Bush at the White House.
1990 A bus shelter built at Glastonbury, Somerset, was knocked down after just 24 hours by a runaway bus.
1990 According to a report issued by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys lung cancer became 30% more prevalent among females between the mid-1970s and 1985.
1990 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein threatened to use force against Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, to stop them driving oil prices down by overproduction.
1990 The Howard League said that all crown court judges should spend three days a year visiting prisoners in their cells. A spokeswoman for the League said. "Instead of just standing there with their wigs on, judges should go and see for themselves. We do not want to be prescriptive and force them to spend the night there, but it would be the best way for people in their position to see how awful our prisons are."
1990 The sails of Shipley Mill, the biggest smock mill in Sussex, were swung into position to complete a two year restoration project. The mill was built in 1879 for grinding corn and was also a memorial to Hilaire Belloc, the author, who once owned the site and died at Shipley in 1953.
1990 The transport secretary, Cecil Parkinson, virtually ruled out any additional runway for Heathrow, Gatwick or Stanstead airports. However, the Civil Aviation Authority in a report named Heathrow, Gatwick, Stanstead. Luton, Bournemouth, Bristol Lydd and Manston as possible sites.
1991 Mikhail Gorbachev became the first Soviet leader to attend the Western economic summit, chaired by John Major in London.
1995 Selina Scott, who was described by American property billionaire, Donald Trump, as 'uptight, obnoxious, repetitive', was planning to return to the United States to interview President Clinton. Her agent said: 'It is a bit more important than Donald Trump.'
1995 A performance of Verdi's 'La Traviata' at the Royal Opera House was abandoned when Carol Vaness, singing Violetta, succumbed to hay fever. The director, Nicholas Payne, said the understudy had been released at the beginning of the performance - something that doubtless would not have happened at the Little Skiffleton and All's Well Light Operatic Society.
1995 Mike Naylor, who founded Endsleigh Insurance, died in a car crash in southern France.
1995 Sir James Spicer, aged 69, the Tory MP for Dorset West, swam across the Thames to raise money forthe Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund and WaterAid.
1995 Steven Norris, the Transport Minister, supported the idea of courses to rehabilitate 'road rage' offenders that were being considered by the Home Office.
1995 After a ten-year circulation war, the tabloid New York Newsday closed with losses estimated at $100 million.
1995 As a heatwave raged across the central and eastern parts of the United States, there were 256 confirmed deaths from the heat across America. The worst-hit city was Chicago, were at least 144 were known to have died from the heat.
1998 It was announced that donor blood would be treated to minimise the risk of passing on CJD.
1998 The last Tsar of Russia was buried in St Petersburg along with his family, 80 years after being murdered in the Bolshevik revolution.
1999 John F Kennedy Junior was missing presumed dead off the coast of New York. The son of the former president of the USA was flying a light aircraft to a family wedding when they disappeared from radar.
2003 A German who confessed to killing and eating a man he met through a website was charged with murder. 2003 BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan was accused of changing his story when giving evidence to MPs over the Iraq dossier row.
2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Carol Shields died after a long battle with breast cancer at the age of 68.
2003 Comedy-drama "Six Feet Under", set in a funeral home, lead the nominations in the year's Emmy television awards.
2004 Tories called for Tony Blair to resign and to explain why he was not told that intelligence on Iraq was discredited.
2004 Actor Pat Roach who starred in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet died from cancer.
2004 American Todd Hamilton surged into a one-shot lead over Ernie Els with a round to play in the 133rd Open at Royal Troon.
2005 Former Conservative Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath died at the age of 89.
2005 Tiger Woods held off his rivals to win his second Open title and end Colin Montgomerie's dreams.
2005 London's Leicester Square was transformed into Willy Wonka's chocolate factory for the movie's premiere.
2005 About 1,700 men and women appeared naked in Tyneside in the name of art.
BIRTHDAYS (for 17 July 2006)
Isaac Watts, 332 (born 17 July 1674)
English hymnwriter who wrote 'O God, our help in ages past'
Earle Stanley Gardner, 117 (born 17 July 1889)
American author, born in Massachusetts, who created the lawyer Perry Mason. He himself practised law from 1922 to 1938
James Francis Cagney, 107 (born 17 July 1899)
American actor in many films during the 30s and 40s, often playing gangsters. His films inelude 'Angels with Dirty Faces' and 'Each Dawn I Die'
Phyllis Diller, 89 (born 17 July 1917)
American comedienne
Ray Galton, 76 (born 17 July 1930)
Author and scriptwriter
Donald Sutherland, 72 (born 17 July 1934)
Canadian film actor and father of Kiefer. A prolific film actor whose movies include 'M*A*S*H', The Eagle Has Landed', 'A Dry White Season', `Backdraft' and 'Klute'
Tim Brooke-Taylor, 66 (born 17 July 1940)
Actor and writer who appeared in 'The Goodies' from 1970-1981 and was in the film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'
Peter Sissons, 64 (born 17 July 1942)
Liverpool-born newsreader who started with ITN in 1964 but is now to be seen on the BBC with 'The Nine O'Clock News'
Spencer Davis, 64 (born 17 July 1942)
Guitarist
Alan Armstrong, 60 (born 17 July 1946)
Geordie Screen and TV actor
Wayne Sleep, 58 (born 17 July 1948)
Plymouth-born dancer and choreographer, who joined the Royal Ballet at the age of 12. He became a principal dancerwith the Royal Ballet and was in the original production of 'Cats'
David Hasselhoff, 54 (born 17 July 1952)
American actor of 'Baywatch' fame. He was also in the TV series 'Knightrider' from 1982-1986

GUESS THE YEAR
Death of Ernest Hemingway, US novelist.
Death of Brian Jones, English rock guitarist.
The first all-England women's singles final took place at Wimbledon, between Christine Truman and Angela Mortimer.
Death of Mazo de la Roche, Canadian novelist.
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, arrived in Britain to a film-star reception.
Captain Virgil Grissom became the second American astronaut during a 16 minute flight 116 miles into space.
Harold Macmillan announced that Britain was to apply to join the Common Market.
Britain applied to join the EEC.
The border between East and West Berlin was sealed off by East Germany with the closure of the Brandenburg Gate to stop the exodus to the West.
Construction of the Berlin Wall started.
Martin Luther King protested for black voting rights in Miami.
East German authorities in Berlin, decided to erect a permanent barrier between Eastern and Western sectors of the city.

....and we ask you to ....GUESS THE YEAR
1961

Sporting Weekend

Pereiro clings on to lead

Unpredictability reigns with a French stage winner in Pierrick Fedrigo and a surprised Spaniard in the yellow jersey

Manchester United are preparing to launch a £25 million bid for Atletico Madrid forward Fernando Torres

The competitive fire that burns so fiercely in Michael Schumacher consumes the opposition, propelling him to a record eighth victory in the French Grand Prix

The final afternoon of the Scottish Open took an unexpected turn when Johan Edfors steamed in with an eight-under-par 63 which left him out of reach

Andrew Strauss became the third England captain to make a hundred on their debut

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TV icon? I say good riddance to old rubbish

Last week, Mark Thompson, the director-general of the BBC, defended increases in his executives' pay by saying that, wherever possible, the corporation tries to secure services at less than the market rate. Well, I don't know how much the programme controller responsible was paid to make the decision, but I could have told him something for nothing: you should have got rid of Top of the Pops many moons ago.
Next weekend, the BBC's arthritic music show cranks out its final edition. Its death will be afforded the same prominence as the end of those other heroes of the baby-boom generation, Syd Barrett, George Best and George Harrison. That joke of Ronnie Barker's about the leading light in its dance troupe Pan's People ("Lovely Babs. What was her name again?") will get plenty of airing. Those we haven't clapped eyes on for decades will be corralled by television for their views, faces we will only recognise when captions inform us they belong to Garry Davies, Dave Lee Travis and David "Kid" Jensen. And everywhere tears will be shed for another moment lost to time.
In all probability, most of the obituaries will be written by those who have not seen an edition since 1983, but that is beside the point. Like the 70mph motorway speed limit, the foil on KitKats or Margaret Beckett, the fact that it was still there, long after it had served any useful purpose, will be enough to induce mass mourning.
In among the eulogies, one or two voices will say the programme lost its way in the multi-channel era. Yet the thing about Top of the Pops is this: it was irredeemably naff from the moment it started. That first episode, recorded in a former church in Manchester, was fronted by Jimmy Savile, a DJ already in his late thirties, who was plucked from hosting lunchtime dance sessions at the nearby Plaza Club. His audience at the Plaza was skiving school kids, a demographic that remained his favourite for the next 40 years. He was an oddity, out of kilter with mainstream fashion and thus perfectly suited to a show which has never had its finger on the pulse.
By the Seventies, Top of the Pops had long since ceased to be anything other than a joke. I remember, as a musical snob of a teenager, my mates and I watched only to mock the teenybop staples that were its weekly output. With its Smashy and Nicey presenters in their comedy knitwear, with its bad acts miming badly to bad hits, with its grim-faced audience swaying uneasily to unconvincing beats, it had none of the energy and bounce of much less long-lived rivals. True, there were moments of joy: the Who smashing up their instruments on stage, the Sex Pistols gurning through Anarchy in the UK, Dexy's Midnight Runners performing Jackie Wilson Said in front of a portrait of the darts player Jocky Wilson. But mainly, it was rubbish. When we wanted David Bowie, we got Sweet, when we wanted Led Zeppelin, we got Smokie and when we wanted Marvin Gaye, we got Cliff Richard.
The BBC always said that the programme reflected market forces because its playlist was entirely dictated by what was selling. There is just one flaw in that argument: the fact that 50,000 people bought the latest by Brotherhood of Man doesn't make it a record worth playing; it merely proves there are 50,000 people out there with no taste.
The last time I saw the show, two years ago, it had undergone roughly its 45th reinvention in a bid to restart the corpse's long-stopped heart. Jeremy Clarkson was presenting and he looked about as comfortable as if he had just been asked to road test an Austin Allegro. For a year. And when a show is too embarrassing even for Clarkson, you know its time has long gone. Indeed, that Jimmy Savile is back to present its final edition is as neat a summary of Top of the Pops as you could wish for.
If either had possessed a smidgen of rock-and-roll credibility, they would have died years ago.

Wanted: a bobby for the biggest beat in Britain

As a police patch, the area around Rhiconich, in the north-west Highlands, makes Heartbeat seem more like Miami Vice.

It is Europe's biggest and quietest beat, where there is no gun crime (unless you count poaching), no drugs and no stabbings. A break-in is considered a crime wave.

Now the 900 square mile district, with a population of only 1,100 people, is looking for a new bobby to replace Pc David Inglis, who retires next month after 30 years in the Northern Constabulary.

Like the Scottish television police officer Hamish Macbeth, he has a West Highland terrier. His is called Bruce.

He said that in a busy year he would send 15 people to court but usually the figure is around 10.

He has dealt with only a handful of break-ins in his nine years in the area, never a murder or serious crime, and the 51-year-old constable, who patrols in a white van, cannot remember the last time the cell in the three-bedroom, 200-year-old police house was used. Almost the whole of the area's population is in three villages, Durness, Kinlochbervie and Scourie, and the only high-profile case Pc Inglis has dealt with was the death of Robin Cook, the former Labour Cabinet minister. He died a year ago while walking with his wife, Gaynor, near the summit of Ben Stack.

Pc Inglis, who was born in Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis, intends to spend his retirement fly fishing and walking his dog. He has built a home next to the police station and plans to be a part-time ghillie and help out the local fisheries trust.

"It is the biggest individual beat in the country but the most beautiful and safest," said Pc Inglis, whose partner, Isobel Patience, works for the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency.

"But it is not just about crime; it is about having a presence in areas like these. You cannot quantify what you have prevented. Having an officer here does deter visiting criminals as well as locals.

"The overwhelming majority of residents are law-abiding and really nice people. Even if it has been necessary to arrest somebody, they have never shown any ill will.

"The right person for the job will need to be in tune with life in a rural, well-behaved community and not take a heavy-handed approach. A quiet word often works better than a ticket in a place like this.

"I just love the area and the people. It is the safest place to be. It is the old style of policing: policing by consent. If there is a road accident, I can phone people to help - they all rally round. There is not much crime but drink is a serious problem in rural areas, not just drivers but domestic disturbances too. I've had a couple of assaults in my area in my time, although nothing serious.

"We don't get people lying in gutters here. Drink drivers? Perhaps three or four a year. As for poaching, I can't remember if I have arrested anybody. It is a dying art.

"I have also had a few mountain rescues. I can't say that there are no drugs here but there are no obvious signs of drug use."

"In my nine years on this beat I have had to deal with four fatal road traffic accidents, three involving motorcyclists." Referring to the death of Mr Cook, Pc Inglis said: "It was very sad and the family even invited me to the funeral in Edinburgh. That was very considerate of them.

"You don't get much trouble here because most of the locals have been to school with each other. They have grown up together.

"The kids here are polite and it has just been such a privilege to have served here. I know everyone, at least by sight, and they all know me. If something is worrying somebody, it soon gets back to me."

Pc Inglis works his last day on Aug 6 and will officially retire in October.

He hopes that his replacement will be on duty by then. Wannabe Dirty Harrys need not apply.

Quiztime 160706

1. Which novel is associated with the phrase 'big brother is watching you'?
1984
2. What colour are the robes of a Buddhist monk in Thailand?
Orange
3. Dogs have sweat glands in their nose and where else?
Paws
4. Who was the first grandchild of King George VI?
Prince Charles
5. What does a belly man do - a) Adjust sound boards in pianos, b) carves pigs carcasses in a butchers or c) he is the anchorman in a tug-of-war team?
a) Adjust sound boards in pianos
6. Elton John wrote the music for which acclaimed musical that opened in London in 2005?
Billy Elliott
7. Which of the tropics passes through Australia?
Tropic of Capricorn
8. Which actress played a Matron in five Carry On films?
Hattie Jacques
9. In what sport might you run into 'brush and rails', 'hog's back' and a 'double oxer'?
Show Jumping - types of fences
10. In furniture what name is given to a set of tables, graduated in size so that they fit beneath each other?
Nest
11. 'I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine' is a line from which film?
Finding Nemo
12. How many riders are on each Tour de France team?
Nine
13. On which island was the Mafia founded in the 1400s?
Sicily
14. What is the largest denomination of the Euro currency that is available as a coin?
Two Euros
15. Which is more northerly - The Mendip Hills, The New Forest or The Vale Of The White Horse?
Vale of the White Horse
16. In which popular TV series did Ray Daley replace Terry McCann?
Minder
17. Which of the following teams were not involved in the first football league in 1888? Wolverhampton Wanderers, Blackpool or Everton?
Blackpool
18. How many counties have a border with Oxfordshire?
Six (Bucks, Wilts, Warwicks, Berks, Gloucs and Northants)
19. Even though he retired from UK athletics in 1980, who still holds the record for the most capped British male athlete of all time?
Geoff Capes
20. Family Fortunes Question - Top Answer Required - Name A Sign You Might See Outside A Guest House?
Vacancies - B & B - No Vacancies - No Pets - En-Suite

21. Which Year - For the first time in ten years, both the mens’ and ladies’ Wimbledon finals were played on the same day, Nick Leeson, the man who broke Barings Bank, was released from jail in Singapore, Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood was shot in a drive-by shooting incident after ignoring gangland threats and The funeral of the actor Bill Owen, best-known as the scruffy Compo Simanite in “Last Of The Summer Wine”, took place in Holmfirth, the home of the programme?
1999
22. Which motor car manufacturer produces the 'Puma 'model?
Ford
23. In which TV show did the Aliens look like lizards?
V
24. At the start of a game of draughts, how many squares are empty?
Forty
25. In which European country did the sport of speed skating originate?
Holland
26. Sue Johnson and Ricky Tomlinson who play husband and wife in The Royle Family previously played husband and wife in which series?
Brookside
27. What title is given to the wife of a Knight?
Dame
28. Which American comedienne once said: “I don’t work out. If God wanted us to bend over, he’d put diamonds on the floor”?
Joan Rivers
29. Where in England would you find 'The All England Jumping Course'?
Hickstead
30. Which former Eurovision Song Contest winner became an MEP in the 1999 elections?
Dana
31. How many candles were carried by the vergers at Ronnie Barker’s memorial service at Westminister Abbey?
Four (fork handles)
32. On the 14th August 1893 France became the first country to introduce what for motor vehicles: Windscreen Wipers, Number Plates or Wing Mirrors?
Number Plates
33. What is the shortest track event in which runners can move out of their lanes?
800m
34. Where in Wales did Billy Butlin build his last, and smallest, holiday camp, which opened in 1966?
Barry Island
35. Number 1 Snoopy Place, Santa Rosa, California was the home address of which cartoonist?
Charles Shultz
36. Which musical ended with the line "I now pronounce you men and wives"?
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers
37. How many slices of bread are used to correctly make a Club Sandwich?
Three
38. Which steam train was driven by Casey Jones?
Cannonball Express
39. The credits on all Bond films finish with which same four words?
James Bond will return
40. Which double act won seven Oscars between 1943 and 1953?
Tom & Jerry

You are driving in a car at a constant speed. On your left side is a valley and on your right side is a fire engine traveling at the same speed as you. In front of you is a galloping pig which is the same size as your car and you cannot overtake it. Behind you is a helicopter flying at ground level. Both the giant pig and the helicopter are also traveling at the same speed as you. What must you do to safely get out of this highly dangerous situation?
Get off the children's "Merry-Go-Round", you're drunk!

Tiebreaker - In order to satisfy an adults daily nutritional requirements it would, theoretically, be possible to drink the following 1 glass of orange juice, 2 glasses of milk and how many pints of Guinness?
Forty Seven (47)

Today's The Day - 16th July

16th July 2006

Religious Events today...
Feast day of St Mary Magdalen Postel,
St Fulrad,
St Athenogenes,
St Helier,
St Eustathius of Antioch,
and St Reineldis.
History Test for July 16th
Born Virginia Katherine McNath today in 1911 who made her Broadway debut in `Top Speed' and then formed a legendary screen partnership? -Ginger Rogers
Born today in 1872, who was the first man to reach the South Pole? -Roald Amundsen
Today in 1661 which European country became the first to issue banknotes? -Sweden
What unwelcome sight for motorists first appeared on the streets of Oklahoma today in 1935? -Parking meters
Who was the last tsar of Russia, shot dead today in 1918? -Nicholas II

Events today...
622AD Traditionally, the beginning of the Islamic Era, when Mohammed began his flight (the Hejira) from Mecca to Medina.
1216 Death of Pope Innocent III.
1377 The coronation of King Richard II took place.
1557 Death of Anne of Cleves, 4th wife of Henry VIII.
1661 Europe's first banknotes were issued, by the Bank of Stockholm.
1782 Mozart's opera Die Entfuhhrung aus dem Serail was first performed, in Vienna.
1827 Death of Josiah Spode, English potter.
1867 Reinforced concrete was patented by Parisian Joseph Monier.
1918 The last tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, along with his entire family, family doctor, servants, and even the pet dog, was murdered by Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg.
1935 Parking meters came into service, in Oklahoma City, USA.
1945 The first atomic bomb developed by Robert Oppenheimer and his team at Alamogordo Air Base in New Mexico.
1950 A record 205,000 people attended the football match between Brazil and Uruguay in the final of the World Cup in Rio. Uruguay won 2-1.
1951 English cricketer Len Hutton scored his 100th century in first-class cricket.
1953 Death of Hilaire Belloc, British author.
1958 Peter Shaffer's play 'Five-Finger Exercise' premiered in the UK.
1960 Death of John Phillips Marquand US writer.
1965 The Mont Blanc road tunnel, linking France with Italy, was opened.
1967 The first "Legalise Cannabis" rally took place in Hyde Park
1984 A 1843 first edition of Charles Dickens' 'Christmas Carol' was sold for £2,750 at a Sotheby's auction.
1984 A jeroboam of Mouton Baron de Rothschild 1870 became the world's most expensive bottle of wine when it was sold in Britain for over £26,500 or £500 a glass.
1984 American actress Liza Minnelli admitted herself into the Betty Ford alcohol and drugs clinic in California. She told reporters “I have a problem and I'm going to deal with it”
1984 American entrepreneur Robert Jani announced plans to build a Beatrix Potter theme park in the Lake District which would cost over £4 million. Penguin Books owners of the Potter titles authorised the park which was expected to open in 1987.
1987 British Airways announced that it was buying British Caledonian for £237 million.
1988 It was reported that police in London had formed an undercover squad to catch motorists jamming parking meters; a crime which was costing one London borough up to f2 million a year.
1988 US athlete Florence Joyner set a new 100 metres record with a time of 10.49 seconds in Indianapolis.
1989 French driver Alain Prost won the British Grand Prix.
1989 Death of Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor.
1989 Jockey Lester Piggott announced that he was to become a grandfather. His daughter Maureen, who married trainer William Haggas was expecting a baby towards the end of 1989.
1989 Police and Customs officials announced they were to visit Jamaica in an attempt to stop the drug crack being smuggled into the UK. It was believed that Yardie gangs, who were trafficking cocaine into America were now targeting Britain.
1990 An earthquake struck the main Philippine island of Luzon, killing over 1,500 people.
1990 Keble College, Oxford, was fined £1,000 after salmonella food poisoning from mayonnaise caused sickness to tourists and some students.
1990 Nigel Mansell announced his intention to retire at the end of the season after being forced to quit the British Grand Prix with gearbox trouble. He also gave £25,000 to a children's ward at Poole General Hospital in Dorset.
1990 Official figures revealed that sales in British shops had fallen by the greatest volume for more than ten years.
1990 Ratners, the biggest retail jewellery chain in Britain, agreed to stop using South African gold as far as possible after a campaign of political pressure and picketing of shops
1991 The public lavatories in Charing Cross Road were sold for £335,000.
1995 The Species Action Programme was considering reintroducing the beaver to Britain as part of a scheme to manage woodlands using only natural methods. The European beaver became extinct in the British Isles during the 15th century.
1995 A two-night rampage in Newark cemetery, Nottinghamshire, by vandals resulted in 40 smashed gravestones.
1995 Hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of Rolex watches were stolen in a raid on the Rolex showroom in west London.
1995 Sir Stephen Spender, the last of the great 30s poets, died at the age of 86.
1995 Selina Scott, who was the subject of unflattering remarks by the American tycoon, Donald Trump, after she had interviewed him, fought back by saying: 'If you've got an ego as big as the Empire State Building, you're liable to get upset if someone dents it.' Mr Trump had written: 'You are obviously a woman who has seen better days.'
1995 A report by the Golf Research Group said that the 388 new courses opened in Britain since 1989 were making an average pre-tax loss of £31,000.
1995 A water weed containing a poison more deadly in undiluted form than a cobra's bite was growing in lakes, ponds and canals in Gloucestershire Parents were advised not to let children play near algae-covered water and to report sightings of the weed.
1995 A cottage in the Shropshire village of Upton Magna, was scientifically dated to 1269 and was probably the oldest known in England.
1995 The Shadow National Heritage Secretary, Chris Smith, said that a Labour government would aim to cut the profits of Camelot, the National Lottery operator, to provide more money for good causes.
2003 Hong Kong Finance Minister Antony Leung resigned from office hours after the security chief stepped down.
2003 Twelve-year-old schoolgirl Shevaun Pennington enjoyed a tearful reunion with her parents and the ex-marine she ran away with was in custody.
2003 Police on Tyneside charged two teenagers with manslaughter after an investigation into the death of a boy in a burning skip.
2003 Cameron Diaz began proceedings to prevent a photographer releasing photos taken of her 10 years before.
2003 Blackburn accepted Chelsea's renewed £17m bid for winger Damien Duff.
2003 Cameroon international Geremi completed his £7m move to Chelsea from Real Madrid.
2004 Indian police launched an investigation after at least 80 children were killed by a fire in their primary school in Tamil Nadu state.
2004 Two top Palestinian security officials offered to resign after a day of kidnap dramas in the Gaza Strip.
2004 U2 guitarist "Edge" said the disappearance of a CD of songs from their new album during a photo shoot "didn't seem credible".
2004 Everton chief executive Trevor Birch resigned after only six weeks.
2005 Police released a CCTV image of the four London bombers as they set out from Luton on their bombing mission.
2005 The sixth Harry Potter book went on sale, with booksellers expecting to shift millions of copies within hours.
2005 A film about suicide bombers was pulled from the schedule of a film festival following the London attacks.

BIRTHDAYS (for 16 July 2006)
Sir Joshua Reynolds, 283 (born 16 July 1723)
Painter
Mary Baker Eddy, 185 (born 16 July 1821)
Founder of the Christian Seience Movement
Roald Amundsen, 134 (born 16 July 1872)
Norwegian explorer / first to reach the South Pole
Barbara Stanwyck, 99 (born 16 July 1907)
(Deceased) American actress born Ruby Stevens, who died in 1990. In movies since the 1920s, she appeared in 'The Thorn Birds' and 'The Big Valley' on television. Her films include 'Sorry Wrong Number' and 'Double Indemnity', and being very bold on the 'Ti
Ginger Rogers (Virginia Katherine McNath), 95 (born 16 July 1911)
(Deceased) American actress and dancer, often paired with Fred Astaire in 1930s musicals such as 'The Gay Divorcee' and 'Top Hat'
Anita Brookner, 68 (born 16 July 1938)
Art historian and Booker prize-winning novelist for 'Hotel du Lac' in 1984
Corin Redgrave, 67 (born 16 July 1939)
British actor, the son of Sir Michael Redgrave. His films include 'A Man for All Seasons', 'Oh What a Lovely War' and 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'
William Bell, 67 (born 16 July 1939)
Soul singer
Tony Jackson, 66 (born 16 July 1940)
Searchers
Desmond Dekker, 64 (born 16 July 1942 - deceased 2006)
Jamaican-born reggae singer who topped the UK charts in 1969 with 'Israelites' which he followed with 'You Can Get It If You Really Wan’t’, another big hit.
Margaret Court, 64 (born 16 July 1942)
Australian tennis player who won the Grand Slam in 1970
Pinchas Zuckerman, 58 (born 16 July 1948)
Violinist
Stewart Copeland, 54 (born 16 July 1952)
Ex-drummer with The Police
Adrian Mills, 50 (born 16 July 1956)
Television presenter and actor, who was in the 'That's Life!' line-up. He also appeared in `Hi-de-Hi!' and on 'Breakfast Time'
Cory Feldman, 35 (born 16 July 1971)
American film star, who started in commercials at the age of three! His films include 'The Lost Boys', 'Gremlins' and two 'Friday the 13th' sagas

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30-year-old Dr.David Owen became the government’s youngest member.
Alec Rose landed at Portsmouth in Lively Lady, having sailed single-handed around the world.
Jane Asher stunned listeners to the BBC radio programme Dee Time, hosted by Simon Dee, with the news that her engagement to Beatle Paul McCartney was off.
Barclay's Bank merged with Martin's Bank.
Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Church's traditional teaching on (and condemnation of) birth control.
Don Jones, a 17-stone Californian state public defender, was fined for being too fat.
In the UK The Countryside Act, allowing local authorities to designate country parks, came into force.
Governor Reagan of California announced his decision to run for President.
Pirate radio station Radio Free London started broadcasting.
Mia Farrow divorced Frank Sinatra.
Russian troops invaded Czechoslovakia.
In Bogota, Pope Paul VI arrived in Columbia on the first visit by a Pope to Latin America.

....and we ask you to ....GUESS THE YEAR
1968

Quiztime Green Quiz

1. In the 1992 general election, which party lost its deposits in all 253 seats that it contested?
Green Party
2. Which chemical element that's name is derived from the Greek for green is at number 17 on the Periodic Table?
Chlorine
3. Which English author wrote “Our Man In Havana” and “Brighton Rock”?
Graham Greene
4. Which childrens tv programme is set in a place called Greendale in Cumbria?
Postman Pat
5. Which town in Italy shares its name with a type of cheese, which is pierced with copper needles to produce a greenish blue mould?
Gorgonzola
6. In which city's harbour did the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior sink?
Auckland
7. The Green Goblin is the arch enemy of which superhero?
Spiderman
8. In the game of Monopoly which three properties are coloured green?
Bond Street, Regent Street and Oxford Street
9. On the map of the London Underground, which line is green?
District
10. In which TV series would you have found Sgt Andy Crawford?
Dixon of Dock Green
11. What demonination Euro note is coloured green?
100 Euros
12. During which war did the battle of Goose Green take place?
Falklands War
13. In which sport is the “warning card” used coloured green?
Field Hockey
14. What was the real name of TV's Green Goddess?
Diane Moran
15. Sapsago is a hard green cheese from which European country?
Switzerland
16. In which Golf tournament does the winner receive a Green Jacket?
US Masters
17. What is the worlds most popular green vegetable?
Lettuce
18. In which city was Graham Greene’s novel “The Third Man” set?
Vienna
19. In the Mario bros. series of games, what is the name of Mario’s green dinosaur pal?
Yoshi
20. What metal impurity makes rubies red and emeralds green?
Chromium

21. Who wrote the children's classic Ann of Green Gables?
L M Montgomery
22. What happened to golfer Lee Trevino on green 13 on 27 June 1975?
Hit by Lightning
23. In Star Trek, Mr Spocks blood was green - but what group?
T - Negative
24. Which children's TV program began with the words 'here is a box, a musical box, wound up and ready to play'?
Camberwick Green
25. What was the only film about Vietnam made during the war?
The Green Berets
26. What Shakespeare play mentions "The Green Eyed Monster"?
Othello
27. Ward Green wrote the story for which famous film?
Lady and the Tramp
28. Andy Green first broke the sound barrier on land in what car?
Thrust SSC
29. True or False - The first colour mentioned in the Bible is green?
True
30. Which artist is supposed to have used 1000 greens in painting?
John Constable
31. Baron Silas Greenback was the enemy of which character?
Dangermouse
32. In 1950 the Minnesota valley canning company became what?
Jolly Green Giant
33. Hal Jordan was the original alter ego of which comic super hero?
Green Lantern - now Kyle Rayner
34. Cape Farewell lies at the southern tip of which country?
Greenland
35. In which song does Mary have hair of gold and lips like cherries?
The Green Green Grass Of Home
36. Which country's national flag is a green rectangle?
Libya
37. In which London Park was Handel’s famous Fireworks music played by The Royal Philharmonic orchestra in 1749?
Green Park
38. What is added to pasta to make it green?
Spinach
39. What would you be doing if you were ‘pooing’ in a shop in Russia? (particularly in a greengrocers)
Weighing something
40. Most people associate the colour green with which flavour?
Mint

- When did Green shield stamps come into use in Britain?
1958
- In the game of Monopoly, what would it cost to buy all three green properties ?
£920 (£300, £300 & £320)

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Snippets harvested from the week's news, chopped, sliced and diced for your weekend convenience.

1. People added uranium ore to their water jugs in the 1920s as it was thought to improve health.

2. And Radium-brand toothpaste, condoms and shoe polish were sold as the word was indicative of quality, much as "platinum" is today.

3. Forty-eight percent of the population is ex-directory.

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4. Nasa worked on inflatable spacecraft in the 1960s.

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5. An SAS dog made more than 20 parachute drops in World War II.

6. Red Buttons - real name Aaron Chwatt - took his surname from the nickname for hotel porters, a job he did in his teens.

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7. Nerve cells grow along bundles of a special fibre similar to spider silk.

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8. About 750 copies of Shakespeare's First Folio, which set down 18 plays for the first time, were printed 1623 - some 230 survive.

9. The Severn Estuary has the second highest tides in the world.

10. The postcode with the highest income in the country is KT19 7, for West Ewell, near Epsom in Surrey.

[Sources, where stories are not linked - 1 and 2: Horizon, BBC Two, 13 July. 5: The Times, 13 July. 8: Daily Telegraph, 14 July. 9. Coast, BBC Two, 13 July. 10. Daily Mail, 14 July.]

Red Buttons Dies

Red Buttons, who died on Thursday aged 87, began his career in vaudeville and burlesque before going on to win an Oscar for a straight acting role; he also enjoyed a successful career in television, most recently appearing as Mr Rubadoux in ER.

Comedy was Buttons's forte; and, as a blue-eyed redhead who stood 5 ft 6 in tall, he never promised to compete with the likes of Clark Gable or Cary Grant. Neither did his stage name, acquired in his early teens, inspire confidence among the serious-minded: "Producers thought with a name like Red Buttons I couldn't act in straight roles," he said in 2004. "I proved them wrong, though."

He won his Oscar - for best supporting actor - in 1957 for his role in Sayonara, starring Marlon Brando and James Garner and adapted from James Michener's novel set during the Korean War. Buttons played the airman Sgt Joe Kelly, whose romance with a Japanese woman (Myoshi Umeki, who also won an Oscar) ends in tragedy.

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Today's The Day - 15th July

15th July 2006 St. Swithins’s Day
Religious Events today...
Feast day of St Swithin,
St Athanasius of Naples,
St Bonaventure,
St Donald,
St Edith of Polesworth,
St Barhadbesaba,
St David of Munktorp,
St Vladimir of Kiev,
and St Pompilio Pinotti.
History Test for July 15th
Today in 1966, the film `Walk, Don't Run' was released It was the last movie of which English-born superstar? -Cary Grant
Today is the feast of St Swithin. According to legend, if it rains today, what will happen? -It will rain for 40 days
Officially adopted today in 1795, what is the French national anthem? -`La Marseillaise'
Known as `the girl with the laugh in her voice', which singer reached the top of the UK pop charts today in 1955 with 'Dreamboat’? -Alma Cogan
Patented today in 1869, what food was invented "for the navy and less prosperous classes" and gets its name from the Greek for pearls? -Margarine

Events today...
1099 Jerusalem was captured by the Crusaders with troops led by Godfrey and Robert of Flanders and Tancred of Normandy.
1795 Le Marseillaise, composed in 1792 by Rouget de Lisle, was officially adopted as the national anthem of France.
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte surrendered to the captain of HMS Bellerophon following his defeat at Waterloo, and was exiled to St Helena, where he died in 1821.
1857 During the Indian Mutiny, the second Massacre of Cawnpore (now Karipur) took place, in which 197 English women and children were killed.
1869 Margarine was patented in France by Parisian Hippolyte Mouries.
1883 Death of General Tom Thumb, circus dwarf.
1904 Russian dramatist and short story writer Anton Chekhov died in Badenweiler.
1912 National Insurance payments began in Britain, devised by Lloyd George.
1929 Death of Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian dramatist and poet.
1948 Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in London, thirteen years after the establishment of its counterpart in America.
1948 Death of John Pershing, US soldier.
1953 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes', starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, received its premiere in New York.
1953 John Reginald Halliday Christie was hanged for the murder of four women at 10 Rillington Place, in Notting Hill, London.
1954 America's first jet liner, the Boeing 707, made its maiden flight from Seattle.
1965 US Mariner transmitted the first close-up pictures of Mars.
1976 Death of Paul William Gallico, US writer.
1978 Jack Nicklaus won the British Open golf title for the third time.
1983 The first public pier to be built on the Thames in London for 30 years was formerly opened on the South Bank in front of the Royal Festival Hall.
1983 Viewing figures revealed that the BBC's breakfast television programming was being watched by almost twice as many people as TV-am.
1984 The Dickens House Museum launched an appeal for £6,500 towards the cost of cataloguing a collection of eight thousand slides and photographs of Dickens.
1984 The four crew members of the powerboat The Carlsberg were rescued by a RAF helicopter after the vessel was badly damaged when it nosedived into a wave during the Everest Round-Britain Off Shore Power Boat Race.
1984 The Viewdata service of British Telecom, Prestel, announced it was launching a new service for schools and colleges which would enable them to receive computer programs down the telephone line as well as advice on how to develop information technology skills.
1988 More than 100 mourners turned out to pay tribute to comedian and actor Jimmy Edwards at the tiny village church of St Andrew and Mary the Virgin, at Fletching, East Sussex.
1989 In Birmingham, fruit machines were banned from all public places in an attempt to stop gambling addiction in children.
1989 Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar was to join a march to Britain's largest Krishna temple at Letchmore Heath, Hertfordshire, which was threatened with closure.
1989 Nottinghamshire beat Essex to win the final of the Benson and Hedges Cup.
1989 Rock band Pink Floyd who were to play a concert in Venice were told by officials not to play louder than sixty decibels to prevent damage to historic buildings.
1990 Death of Margaret Mary Lockwood, English film actress.
1990 In an ongoing campaign of violence, separatist Tamil Tigers massacred 168 Muslims in Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital.
1995 Cast members in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Goethe's 'Faust' were unhappy at being asked to appear nude. Michael Bogdonov, the director, said Goethe wanted some parts naked.
1995 It was reported that Tony Blair failed to declare a trip on Concorde in 1986 and faced a reprimand from a Commons committee.
1995 After seeing Selina Scott's TV programme about him, the tycoon Donald Trump described her as an 'uptight unattractive has-been'.
1995 An investigation was under way at Kingston prison, Portsmouth, after two of the governor's peacocks were found dead. Prisoners had complained at being woken at 4am by the birds mating.
1995 Yorkshire Water sent a man from Wakefield 50p after he complained about the amount the company was spending on TV advertising. Yorkshire Water said 50p was the amount the campaign cost each household .
1995 Cartier, the jeweller, was to end its sponsorship of polo. Cartier's communications director said: 'Polo was no longer so chic'.
1995 In a grim statistic, Eric Atkinson became the 1,000th person known to have jumped to his death from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. For every person that jumps, at least five are stopped or dissuaded by guards, workmen or passers-by. One man was threatened by a guard who said: 'Come down or I'll shoot'. The man came down. Some people leave notes. A man in 1954 wrote, simply, 'Absolutely no reason except I have toothache'. A suicide expert said the bridge has many attractions to the potentially suicidal. 'No gun permit..no prescription and you don't have to be agile. It also happens to be lethal'.
1997 The co-joined twins born earlier in the year, returned to Manchester, following their seperation in London the previous month.
1997 Top fashion designer, Gianni Versace was shot and killed in Miami by a murderer who, as eye-witnesses said, “just walked calmly away, and hailed a taxi”.
2003 Exceptional summer heat across Europe broke records in Switzerland and brought drought fears to Italy.
2003 A German politician whose clash with the Italian PM set off a diplomatic row said the Italian Government is "racist".
2003 Demonstrators protesting at the jailing of farmers' rights activist Jose Bove brought the Tour de France to a temporary halt.
2003 Government proposals to remove the automatic right to trial by jury were thrown out by the House of Lords.
2003 A sixth-form student went missing during a school trip to the Italian Alps.
2003 A film about murdered Irish journalist Veronica Guerin became a huge hit at cinemas in Ireland.
2003 One of the UK's most respected film reviewers, Alexander Walker, died in a London hospital aged 73.
2003 Australia's Olympic 400m champion Cathy Freeman retired from the sport.
2003 West Ham defender Glen Johnson moved to Chelsea for a £6m fee.
2004 The US military was trying to identify a headless body found in an orange jumpsuit in the Tigris River.
2004 The government vowed to take back overall control of Britain's railways, scrapping the Strategic Rail Authority.
2004 Arthur Kane, the bassist for 1970s punk pioneers the New York Dolls, died aged 55.
2004 Police were called in after a rough cut of a new album by rock band U2 went missing from a photo session.
2004 England's Paul Casey shared the lead with France's Thomas Levet on five under par after day one at Royal Troon.
2004 Alan Shearer insisted he had no plans to leave Newcastle despite facing a battle for a first-team place.
2004 Jason Koumas signed an improved four-year contract with West Brom.
2004 Chelsea striker Hernan Crespo secured a one-year loan deal with AC Milan.
2005 The family of 18-year-old London bus bomber Hasib Mir Hussain said he was a loving and normal young man.
2005 Jack Nicklaus enjoyed an emotional farewell as Tiger Woods dominated the Open on day two.

BIRTHDAYS (for 15 July 2006)
Inigo Jones, 433 (born 15 July 1573)
English architect, born in London. He designed the Queen's House in Greenwich and introduced the proscenium arch and moveable scenery to the English stage
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, 400 (born 15 July 1606)
Dutch painter, whose most famous work 'The Night Watch' appeared in 1642. He was also a great portrait painter and, indeed of self-portraits. He died a pauper in 1669
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, 156 (born 15 July 1850)
1st US saint.
Dame Iris Murdoch, 87 (born 15 July 1919)
Booker prize-winning Irish novelist, born in Dublin. Her novels include `The Bell', 'The Sea, The Sea' and 'The Good Apprentice'
Julian Bream, 73 (born 15 July 1933)
Guitarist and a protege of Andres Segovia
Harrison Birtwistle, 72 (born 15 July 1934)
British composer whose works include the opera `Punch and Judy' and the chamber ensemble `Medussa'
Millie Jackson, 63 (born 15 July 1943)
Soul singer born in Georgia, USA. She only had minor success in the UK with Elton John in 1985 and the single 'Act of War'
Jan-Michael Vincent, 62 (born 15 July 1944)
American film actor, probably best known in the UK as Stringfellow in 'Airwolf' on TV. His films include 'The Mechanic', 'Hooper' and 'Born in East L.A.'
HM Sualtan of Brunei, 60 (born 15 July 1946)
Reputedly the richest man in the world, he attended the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and is an Honorary Captain in the Coldstream Guards
Linda Ronstadt, 60 (born 15 July 1946)
American singer, born in Arizana, who had a number one hit in the US with 'You're No Good' and later, in 1989, had another hit with 'Don't Know Much', in a duet with Aaron Neville
Celia Imrie, 54 (born 15 July 1952)
Surrey-born actress, seen mostly on television. She was Corinne Perigo in 'The Darling Buds of May' and Joanna in 'The Riff Raff Element'

GUESS THE YEAR
England were held to a goalless draw by Spain in Madrid and were knocked out of the World Cup.
Intruder Michael Fagan entered Buckingham Palace. Once inside he stole a bottle of wine from the palace cellars and made his way to the Queen's bedroom where he sat on the end of her bed and asked her for a cigarette. Following in the wake of a recent incident in which German tourists were found camped out in the Queen's gardens, the incident sparked off rows over Palace security.
English actor Kenneth Moore died at his home in Fulham, London.
Two guardsmen and seven army horses were killed, and seventeen spectators injured, when an IRA bomb exploded while they were en route to Horse Guards Parade for the changing of the guard.
No.1- Dexys Midnight Runners `Come On Eileen’
In the US, much-loved film actor, Henry Fonda, died at the age of 77.
In Leeds, an inquest opened into the death of British nurse Helen Smith killed in Saudi Arabia in 1979.
In London, Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman died of cancer on her 67th birthday.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Charles Burton completed their 3 year trip aboard their craft "Benjamin Bowring". They had sailed around the world by way of both the North and South Poles.
In the UK, American Ashby Harper, 65, became the oldest person to swim the English Channel.
The PLO was driven out of Beirut by the Israelis.

....and we ask you to ....GUESS THE YEAR
1982

In The News - Last Week At A Glance

Friday July 7
# The 52 victims of last year's 7/7 bombings were remembered at ceremonies around the country.
# BBC executives secured record pay rises, despite mass redundancies and falling audience figures.
# John Prescott faced mutiny from the back benches as details of his meeting with millionaire Millennium Dome owner Philip Anschutz emerged.
# The diaries of the two teenagers responsible for the Columbine shootings were released, detailing painstaking plans for the killings.

Saturday July 8
# Home Office figures revealed that the murder rate had risen by almost a quarter under Labour.
# Plans to launch an American-style terror alert system were announced by Home Secretary John Reid.
# The Church of England decided that the ordination of women as bishops could be theologically justified.
# England's new manager, Steve McClaren barred the footballers' wives and girlfriends from attending future tournaments.

Sunday July 9
# Italy won the World Cup for the fourth time after beating France 5-3 on penalties.
# Roger Federer sauntered into the record books after becoming only the third man in the open era to win four consecutive Wimbledon singles titles.
# A Russian airliner carrying dozens of families on holiday ploughed off a runway and burst into flames killing at least 122 passengers and crew.
# Masked gunmen rampaged through a district of Baghdad, dragging people randomly from cars and killing those who were Sunnis.

Monday July 10
# The Government said that nine hundred more troops were to be sent to Afghanistan at the request of commanders fighting an intensified campaign against the Taliban.
# Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General, decided not to increase the six-year minimum 'life' sentence term for Craig Sweeney, who was convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a three-year-old girl.
# A Gulf war veteran killed four members of his family over a period of five hours with a handgun that he had fitted with a silencer.
# The Chechen terrorist who claimed to have masterminded the Beslan school siege, Shamil Basayev, was killed in a huge explosion.

Tuesday July 11
# At least 163 people were killed and hundreds injured when seven bombs exploded on Bombay's crowded commuter network.
# The government said fast-track planning laws will be introduced to speed development of new nuclear power stations and onshore wind farms.
# The Government faced unprecedented opposition in both Houses of Parliament to the extradition of three former NatWest bankers on fraud charges.
# The Russian authorities were instructed to banish the poor - and the rain - from St Petersburg ahead of the G8 summit.

Wednesday July 12
# The 'cash for peerages' inquiry closed in on Downing Street after Tony Blair's chief fundraiser Lord Levy was arrested by police investigating the scandal.
# A key prosecution witness in the case of the NatWest Three was found dead in east London.
# Mayor Ken Livingstone announced that the £8-a-day congestion charge in London was to rise to £25 for cars such as 4x4s that emit high levels of carbon dioxide.
# Reservists were called up for an Israeli assault on Lebanon after Hizbollah gunmen kidnapped two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others.

Thursday July 13
# Israel bombed Lebanon's airports, imposed a naval blockade and threatened to sever the main road to Syria as fears of a wider conflict grow.
# The NatWest Three arrived in the US and were shackled in heavy metal ankle chains, handcuffed and taken to the courthouse in Houston.
# David Cameron faced a fierce Eurosceptic backlash after backing down on plans to take his Euro-MPs out of an avowedly profederal group at Brussels.
# An RAF Harrier jump jet crashed beside a main road after its pilot ejected seconds before impact.Witnesses reported a "fireball" and said that wreckage hit several vehicles.

And finally…
A rock event on the Isle of Wight abandoned its circus theme after complaints from sufferers of coulrophobia, or fear of clowns... A vase given to a cleaning woman as a retirement present in 1940 turned out to be "a lost treasure of the Qing dynasty"... Restorers working on Nelson's Column discovered it was 16ft smaller than generally believed... A police magazine was found advising women planning a drunken night out to ensure they had waxed and were "wearing nice pants"... Scientists discovered that flesh-eating kangaroos used to gallop around Australia more than 10 million years ago, along with an oversize bird, jokingly described as the "demon duck of doom"... Yak polo has become a booming sport in Mongolia with four games a week being played this summer... Evensong at one of England's cathedrals was replaced with an evening of worship led by an Elvis impersonator... The World Cup trophy appeared already to have been broken, despite only being in Italy's hands for only a few days.

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Today's The Day - 14th July

14th July 2006 National day of France (Bastille Day)

National day of Iraq.

Religious Events today...
Feast day of St Marcellinus or Marchelm,
St Camillus de Lellis,
St Ulric of Zell,
and St Deusdedit of Canterbury.

History Test for July 14th
Released today in 1969, which film starred Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda as two bikers? -`Easy Rider'
Which building was stormed today in 1789, marking the start of the French Revolution? -The Bastille
Born today in 1858 who fought a campaign for women's suffrage with her daughters Christabel and Sylvia? -Emmeline Pankhurst
Born today in 1913, who is the only man to have been both President and Vice President of America without being elected to either office? -Gerald Ford
Today in 1881, the American outlaw William Bonney was shot dead. By what name was he better known? -Billy the Kid

Events today...
1789 The Bastille, a former State prison in Paris, was stormed and razed to the ground by Parisian citizens as the French Revolution began.
1823 During a visit to Britain, King Kamehameha II of Hawaii and his queen died of measles.
1867 Dynamite was demonstrated for the first time by Alfred Nobel, at a quarry in Redhill, Surrey.
1887 Death of Alfred Krupp, German industrialist.
1902 The campanile (bell tower) of St Mark's Cathedral in Venice collapsed.
1904 Death of Paul Kruger, Boer leader.
1907 Death of William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor of aniline dyes.
1930 BBC Television transmitted its first play, 'The Man With A Flower In His Mouth' by Pirandello.
1953 A government inquiry into the murders at 10 Rillington Place decided that Timothy Evans, hanged for the murder of his wife and daughter three years earlier, was guilty.
1958 In a military coup led by General Kassem, King Faisal of Iraq was assassinated and a republic proclaimed.
1959 Death of Grock, World-famous Swiss clown.
1959 The USS Long Beach, the first nuclear warship, was launched.
1961 Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, arrived in Britain to a film-star reception.
1963 The BBC announced its decision to scrap the television panel game 'What’s My Line'.
1965 US statesman Adlai Stevenson collapsed and died in London from a heart attack.
1967 Abortion was legalized in Britain.
1972 Gary Glitter and the Glittermen (later called the Glitter Band) gave their first concert in Wiltshire.
1983 It was claimed that people were lying their way to quickie divorces by fabricating allegations about their partners infidelities, with many parties deterred from contesting the cases by £2,000 legal bills.
1984 A racing picture named 'The Doncaster Gold Cup of 1838' which was painted by both J. F. Herring and James Pollard set a price record when it fetched £777,000 at a Christie's auction.
1984 Actor Bernard Youens who played Stan Ogden in the soap opera 'Coronation Street' had his left leg amputated. He had spent several months in hospital being treated for arthritis.
1988 22-year-old Amanda Richards from Cardiff, the first woman in Britain to obtain a degree in mining engineering, was barred from graduating because she had not paid a £12 library fine.
1988 The Conservative Party narrowly held onto their majority in the Kensington by-election.
1988 The Royal Shakespeare Company announced its first large-scale tour of Britain and the Republic of Ireland for six years
1989 A 1737 English landscape painting by George Lambert was sold for a record £286,000 at a Christie's auction. Christie's had originally put an estimate of f30,000 - £50,000 on the picture.
1989 Over 300,000 Siberian coalminers went on strike, demanding better pay and conditions.
1989 Over a million spectators gathered in the centre of Paris to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution with a huge parade of musicians, jugglers and dancers along the Champs Elysees.
1990 A survey revealed that between 15% and 38% of all household water supplies were being lost because of to leakages, mainly from old pipes
1990 According to reports, a British company was negotiating to buy 10,000 tanks from the Soviet Union and other Eastern European governments to be recycled into farming tools and building materials.
1990 Arthur Scargill, the president of the National Union of Mineworkers, was booed by opponents at the Durham miners' gala Supporters chanted: "Arthur Scargill, Arthur Scargill, we'll support you ever more", whilst critics chanted: "We don't need you any more".
1990 British film director Philip Leacock died.
1990 It was revealed that Britain and Argentina would be back to normal diplomatic relations since the Falklands conflict with the imminent arrival of the new British Ambassador in Buenos Aires.
1990 Nicholas Ridley resigned as trade and industry secretary in the wake of remarks he made about the Germans in the Spectator magazine.
1990 Tesco admitted that "naturally-fed" chickens featured in a TV advertisement had been given drugs for most of their lives. The £50 million TV campaign, featured Dudley Moore as a Tesco buyer searching a French forest for the idyllic flock'.
1990 The musical 'Bernadette' closed after running less than a month at the Dominion Theatre, London. The production was said to have cost £1 million.
1995 The Bradford & Bingley Building Society withdrew a national newspaper advertisement that called the Welsh 'Shady characters'
1995 The final section of the Skye bridge was manoeuvred into position, connecting the island to the Scottish mainland.
1995 The actor and author, Stephen Fry, received an honorary degree at the University of Dundee, with a new dyed-blond hairstyle.
1995 The first one-day strike by train drivers brought the rail network to an almost complete halt. The only InterCity service of the day left Paddington for Bristol with just one passenger on board.
1995 Tens of thousands of fish died in the River Tame in the West Midlands after freak storm conditions caused low oxygen levels and increased pollution.
1995 An album of 19th-century watercolours, assumed to be worthless, were sold at Christie's for £265,000. The album, by the Filipino artist, Jose Honorato Lozano, was valued by the 'Antiques Roadshow' on a visit to Brussels.
1995 Eight men were sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court for reprogramming mobile phones to make free calls to Pakistan, costing BT up to £25,000 a day. In three weeks. £600.000 worth of calls were made to one number alone.
2003 The UK turned down Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's call to break off relations with Yasser Arafat.
2003 A missing 12-year-old girl flew to Paris with a former United States marine she met on the internet.
2003 The inquiry into serial killer Harold Shipman said three of his victims could have been saved if police had investigated properly.
2003 Cuban musician Compay Segundo, who starred in Wim Wenders' film Buena Vista Social Club, died aged 95.
2003 Bee Gee Robin Gibb was unveiled as a new tutor on the BBC's revamped talent search Fame Academy.
2004 The governor of Mosul was killed on his way to Baghdad, hours after a deadly bombing in the capital.
2004 An attempt to amend the US constitution, backed by President Bush, failed to gain enough support.
2004 Retail tycoon Philip Green scrapped his takeover plans for Marks & Spencer after failing to win the support of shareholders.
2004 New guidelines to protect children from sex and violence on TV were drawn up by media watchdog Ofcom.
2004 Robbie Savage agreed a new four-year deal at Birmingham after Everton's bid was rejected.
2004 Veteran striker Teddy Sheringham agreed a one-year deal with West Ham.
2005 President Chirac warned France that it was not safe from terrorists amid tight security on Bastille Day.
2005 Thousands attended a vigil for the victims of the London bombings the previous week.
2005 Hollywood actor Brad Pitt was released from hospital after being diagnosed with viral meningitis.
2005 Patrick Vieira was set to join Juventus on Friday after Arsenal agreed a £13.75m fee.
2005 Charlton signed Uruguay defender Gonzalo Sorondo on a one-year loan from Inter Milan.

BIRTHDAYS (for 14 July 2006)
Emmeline Pankhurst, 148 (born 14 July 1858)
British suffragette
Terry Thomas, 95 (born 14 July 1911)
(Deceased) British actor and comedian with very English upper-class traits, calling those he came into contact with 'a cad' or'an absolute shower'. In many comedy films including 'Private's Progress', 'I'm All Right Jack' and 'Garleton Browne of the FO'
Woody Guthrie, 94 (born 14 July 1912)
(Deceased) American folk singer born in Oklahoma. He wrote the song 'This Land Is Your Land'
Gerald Ford, 93 (born 14 July 1913)
38th US President
Baroness Stedman, 90 (born 14 July 1916)
(Deceased) Former Under Secretary for the Environment in the Callaghan government and leader of the SDP in the Hause of Lords from 1988-1991
Ingmar Bergman, 88 (born 14 July 1918)
Award winning Swedish film director and writer, whose films include 'Through a Glass Darkly' and 'Wild Strawberries'
Leon Garfield, 85 (born 14 July 1921)
(Deceased) Children's author
Harry Dean Stanton, 80 (born 14 July 1926)
American character actor
Sir Robert Stephens, 75 (born 14 July 1931)
(Deceased) English stage and screen actor who was married to Dame Maggie Smith. He made a number of films including 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie', 'Henry V' and 'Century'
Sue Lawley, 60 (born 14 July 1946)
Television and radio presenter of 'Desert Island Discs'. She was a presenter on 'Nationwide', 'Tonight’ and 'Arena'
Bruce Oldfield, 56 (born 14 July 1950)
Top British fashion designer
Chris Cross, 54 (born 14 July 1952)
Ultravox, who had a big hit with 'Vienna' in 1981. They followed this success with other hits including 'All Stood Still' and 'Dancing With Tears In My Eyes'
Arthur Albiston, 49 (born 14 July 1957)
Manchester United Great

GUESS THE YEAR
US tennis player Arthur Ashe beat compatriot Jimmy Connors to become the first coloured player to win the Wimbledon men's singles title.
Excavations at the tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi, near the ancient Chinese capital of Xi'an, uncovered an army of 8,000 life-size terracotta warriors dating to about 206BC.
The US Apollo spacecraft and the Russian Soyuz craft successfully docked while in orbit.
After an 11-month journey, the US uncrewed Viking 1 made a soft landing on Mars and started sending back television pictures.
Unemployment in the UK stood at 1,147,633, the highest for 35 years.
Thirty-five nations, including the USA and the USSR, signed the Helsinki Agreement on cooperation in human rights and other global issues.
Death of Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer.
In the UK, the last major British-owned motor company, British Leyland, passed into Government ownership.
In London, Richard O'Brien's stage hit, `The Rocky Horror Picture Show', a horror movie spoof based on sex, transvestites and rock music, was transferred to the big screen.
Peter Gabriel left Genesis and was replaced by Phil Collins.
The Stylistics were at No.1 with `Can’t Give You Anything’
Annabel Hunt gave the first official nude opera performance in Britain in Ulysses - it was also the first nude televised performance.

....and we ask you to ....GUESS THE YEAR
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Today's The Day - 13th July