Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2017
Our front page told how Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who favoured peace with Israel, was assassinated at a military parade in Cairo commemorating the Yom Kippur war.
88 YEARS AGO (1929)
Labour Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald became the first British leader to address US Congress while in America, to finalise a naval treaty.
73 YEARS AGO (1944)
The Sonderkommando, inmates at the Auschwitz-birkenau death camp who were forced to dispose of bodies from the gas chambers, staged an uprising.
Birthdays
Music mogul Simon Cowell turns 58. Russian President Vladimir Putin is 65. Pop singer and Britain’s Got Talent judge Alesha Dixon is 39. Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke is 49. And many happy returns to Mirror reader Mary Allan, from Sheffield, South Yorks, who turns 78 today.
Today’s events
Noon Funeral of former Newcastle United chairman Freddy Shepherd at St George’s Church in Jesmond.
12.30pm Green Party conference opens in Harrogate, North Yorks.
1.30pm Castleford Tigers take on Leeds Rhinos in rugby’s Super League Grand Final at Old Trafford.
4.45pm Premiere of Battle of the Sexes, starring Emma Stone, in London’s Leicester Square.
Today’s giggle
A bloke was admitted to hospital with plastic horses in his stomach. His condition is now stable.