Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
WEDNESDAY, OCT 11, 2017
ON THIS DAY 37 YEARS AGO (1980)
Our front page on the Tory Conference in Brighton told how Denis Thatcher was so “wrapped up” talking about golf at the hotel bar, he did not notice crowds protesting against rising unemployment.
102 YEARS AGO (1915)
Brit nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad after being found guilty of treason. She had helped some 200 Allied soldiers to escape.
30 YEARS AGO (1987)
A week-long search for the Loch Ness monster was called off after it failed to find anything of interest.
Operation Deepscan, a sonar exploration of the loch, used £1million worth of equipment to try to track down the elusive creature.
TODAY’S EVENTS
11.30am Syrian women sing out Big Ben’s missing chimes in honour of their missing loved ones from the roof of a London bus in the capital’s Parliament Square.
BIRTHDAYS
Comedian Dawn French is 60. She and comedy partner Jennifer Saunders grew up on the same RAF base. Football legend Sir Bobby Charlton is 80. He was once given a wig by actor Yul Brynner. Musician Daryl Hall is 71. He enjoys restoring historic houses. And many happy returns to Mirror reader Derek Payne from Padstow, Cornwall, who is 85 today.
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