Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 2018
ON THIS DAY 55 YEARS AGO (1963)
We announced the death of Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell, aged 56, reporting that wife, Dora, held his hand at the end. Gaitskell, who had autoimmune disease lupus, had been admitted to hospital two weeks previously with a lung condition.
52 YEARS AGO (1966)
Indira Gandhi became India’s first and only female PM to date. As daughter of first leader Jawaharlal Nehru, she pledged she would strive to create a climate of peace.
27 YEARS AGO (1990)
Former England cricket captain Mike Gatting led a rebel tour of South Africa, defying the international sporting ban against the country’s Apartheid regime. The tour created a storm of protests and eventually had to be abandoned.
TODAY’S EVENTS
9.30am Office For National Statistics releases retail sales figures for December, including details of Christmas spending. 10.15am Newly elected Scottish Labour Richard Leonard leader to
BIRTHDAYS
Country music legend Dolly Parton is 72. She has been married to businessman Carl Dean since 1966. EX-F1 star
Jenson Button is 38. He has a pub named after him. Actor
Michael Crawford is 76. He does most of his own stunts. Actress Tippi Hedren is 88. She was in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. And many happy returns to Mirror reader
Michael Prince, from Cardigan, Ceredigion, who turns 79 today.
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