Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
THURSDAY, JULY 27, 2017
ON THIS DAY 71 YEARS AGO (1945)
Our front page hailed Labour’s victory in the general election. Clement Attlee won 393 seats in the end with Churchill’s Tories on 197.
14 YEARS AGO (2003)
American comedy legend Bob Hope died two months after celebrating his 100th birthday. The British-born star emigrated to the US with his family aged four.
21 YEARS AGO (1996)
A pipe bomb exploded at a rock concert at Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park during the Games killing two and injuring 111. Serial bomber Eric Rudolph was captured in 2003 and got four life sentences without parole.
TODAY’S EVENTS
9am Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson delivers the annual lecture at the Lowry Institute, the international affairs think-tank based in Sydney, Australia. 2pm The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, attends a memorial service for
BIRTHDAYS
Actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers is 40. He was expelled from school for truancy. Former Olympic skater Christopher Dean is
59. He supports Nottingham Forest FC. Lib Dem peer Baroness Shirley Williams is
87. She was evacuated to Minnesota in the US during WW2. And many happy returns to Mirror readers Iris O’brien, 80, of Thorntoncleveleys, Lancs, and Stewart Holmes, 63, of Bradford, West Yorks.
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