Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2017
ON THIS DAY 46 YEARS AGO (1971)
Our front page told the shocking story of triple murderer Michael Bassett, an ex-grammar school pupil who shot dead three French tourists before committing suicide. Police found Bassett’s body in his Ford Escort in Barlaston, Staffs.
22 YEARS AGO (1995)
Some 40,000 Muslim refugees fled the city of Srebrenica in Bosnia after being forced out by Bosnian Serbs in what the UN described as the biggest ‘ethnic cleansing” since the Second World War.
20 YEARS AGO (1997)
Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace was gunned down outside his Miami mansion. Ten days later police traced the killer, Andrew Cunanan, to a houseboat and, following a five-hour stand off, found him dead after he shot himself.
TODAY’S EVENTS
10.30am The second day of the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival in Tolpuddle, Dorset, a family friendly weekend organised by the TUC which celebrates the six Dorset farmworkers who were
BIRTHDAYS
Actor Forest Whitaker is 56 while former Labour politician David Miliband
is 52. He and his brother Ed were the first siblings to sit in Parliament simultaneously since 1938. Actress Diane Kruger,
who started out making low budget French films, is 41. And many happy returns to Mirror readers Martin Kelly, from Macclesfield, who is 56, and Bob Lyons, from Newcastle, who turns 67.
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