Happy 51st anniversary of the day Roger Moore recorded this in his Live and Let Die filming diary:
It’s also 122 years since Annie Edson Taylor celebrated her 63rd birthday by becoming the first person to go over Niagara falls in a barrel and survive in search of fame and fortune, which sadly continued to elude her.
…and it’s the bittersweet third anniversary of Kip Freshwater shouting “smelly pants wee” in an echoey underpass on his way for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia treatment at Birmingham Children’s Hospital — a moment immortalised in this plaque:
…and broadcast to a grateful nation a few days later by Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode:
