Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 2017
ON THIS DAY 56 YEARS AGO (1961)
COMMUNIST troops held East Berlin in a “grip of steel”, sealing the border between East and West with barbed wire to stem the flow of refugees. Days later, it was replaced with concrete blocks and the Berlin Wall came into being.
38 YEARS AGO (1979)
DOZENS of yachts vanished and 18 people, including three rescuers, were killed as a freak storm hit the Irish Sea during the Fastnet yacht race. Of 303 yachts starting, 86 finished.
37 YEARS AGO (1980)
SOME 16,000 workers at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, staged a successful strike following the dismissal of one of their colleagues. They also campaigned for the right to form independent trade unions and greater political and economic freedom.
TODAY’S EVENTS
9am Prime Minister Theresa May returns to Downing Street after her three-week summer break.
1.45pm Scotland’s former First Minister Alex Salmond hosts Alex Salmond: Unleashed as part of the
BIRTHDAYS
Actress Mila Kunis, who was born in Ukraine, is 34. Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw is 33. He failed his degree at Liverpool University. US actress Halle Berry, worth an estimated £62million, is 51. Comedian and actor
Steve Martin is 72. He is also an accomplished banjo player. And many happy returns to Daily Mirror reader Helen Nuttall, from Hastings, East Sussex, who turns 47 today.
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