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FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE DECEMBER 4, 1939 PRAGUE is laughing at a hoax perpetrated on the Germans. A batch of rifles was due for delivery from a local factory. Several people claimed them; they wore the correct German uniform and had the necessary papers. Later, real German officers turned up at the factory - only to find they had been forestalled. DECEMBER 4, 1993 PRINCESS DIANA revealed yesterday that she was retreating from public life after 13 years in the limelight. Close to tears, she asked for 'time and space'. Friends and family said she would have soldiered on if she had felt confident of Charles's support, but, as one of her closest confidantes said: 'He pushed her out.' HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAY-Z, 55. The US rapper topped the UK charts with Deja Vu (alongside now wife Beyonce) and Umbrella (with Rihanna). The winner of 24 Grammys was selling drugs aged 13, but is now worth $2.5billion, largely thanks to investments in champagne and cognac businesses. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
