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July 26, 2021

Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD

FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

JULY 26, 1982

MRS THATCHER lives up to her nickname of the Iron Lady as far as her salary is concerned. Among the leaders of the Big Four Western countries, her earnings are strictly in the non-precious metal category. Even if she drew the full £36,725 to which she is entitled — she takes a voluntary cut to £27,825 — it is well below French President Francois Mitterrand’s £46,800, and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt’s £65,520, plus expenses.

JULY 26, 2000

THE doomed Concorde was on fire before it even left the ground, eyewitnesses claimed last night. They told how the Air France pilot fought desperately to control the supersonic jet as its left-side engines trailed massive plumes of flame. All 109 passengers and crew were killed instantly.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

DAME HELEN Mirren, 76. The Oscar-winning actress was born in London and raised in Essex. By the age of 25, she was being hailed as ‘the best thing to come out of Southend since the A13’. Aside from acting, she has worked as a lingerie saleswoman, a postwoman and on a darts stall at a funfair. STORMZY, 28. The London-born rapper, born Michael Ebenazer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Jr., started working at an oil refinery in Southampton. He has since had three no 1 singles, won three Brit Awards and is reported to be worth £24 million. As the first grime artist to headline Glastonbury, he broke the news with a poster in his mum’s local Oxfam shop.

BORN ON THIS DAY

CARL JUNG (1875-1961). The Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst pioneered the concepts of the collective unconscious, as well as extraversion and introversion. He said: ‘Show me a sane man and I’ll cure him for you.’ When he first met Sigmund Freud — who’d become a friend and rival — they reportedly talked for 13 hours. He once said: ‘Liverpool is the pool of life’, although he is never thought to have visited the city, except in his dreams. FELIX DEXTER (1961-2013). The St Kitts-born British comic and actor studied to be a barrister but failed his bar finals and drowned his sorrows at a comedy club where he did an impromptu set ‘as an act of bravado and to impress my girlfriend’. Colleague Charlie Higson called him ‘criminally underused’ and Dexter himself complained that when TV bosses ‘think of a black comedian, they always think of Lenny Henry’.

ON JULY 26...

IN 1845, Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s SS Great Britain undertook her maiden voyage to new york. IN 1971, T. Rex were enjoying their second no 1 with Get It On.

WORD WIZARDRY

GUESS THE DEFINITION: Otiose (c1790) A) Pleasurable. B) unusual, bizarre, interesting. C) useless. Answer below. PHRASE EXPLAINED Pass the parcel: not to accept responsibility for something and pass the burden on to someone else. From an eponymous children’s party game.

QUOTE FOR TODAY

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, it doesn’t go away. Philip K. Dick, U.S. science fiction writer (1928-82)

JOKE OF THE DAY

I GAVE up my job in a shoe recycling shop. It was sole destroying. Guess The Definition answer: C.

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