Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
TODAY: SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 2017
ON THIS DAY 25 YEARS AGO (1992)
Our revealing front page showed Fergie and her daughters looking on as the Queen’s carriage swept by on its way to Royal Ascot. We told how the Duchess of York, once a guest in the Royal Box, had been told not to attend the race after her split from Prince Andrew.
56 YEARS AGO (1961)
Soviet ballet star Rudolf Nureyev, principal dancer of the Leningrad Kirov Ballet, defected to the West after shaking off his guards at a Paris airport. He became principal dancer at the Royal Ballet.
43 YEARS AGO (1974)
The IRA bombed the Houses of Parliament, injuring 11 people and rupturing a gas main causing fire to spread rapidly through the palace. The police had managed to clear most of the building after the Press Association received a telephone warning from a man with an Irish accent six minutes before the device exploded.
BIRTHDAYS
Tennis star Venus Williams is 37. She is worth £54million. Music legend Barry Manilow is 74. He married his partner of 40 years Garry Kief in 2014. Actor Greg Kinnear is 54. His father was a diplomat and they lived in Athens and Beirut. Director Ken Loach is 81. He came out of retirement to make I, Daniel Blake. Many happy returns to Mirror readers Lyn Davies from Hastings, East Sussex who is 70 and Tony Fradley from Stoke who is 68. If you’d like us to mention the birthday of a loved one, write to Birthdays, Daily Mirror, One Canada Square, London E14 5AP or madeuthink@mirror.co.uk