Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2018
ON THIS DAY 37 YEARS AGO (1981)
We told how miners had won a “massive victory” over Margaret Thatcher’s Government. In a U-turn, ministers agreed not to close 23 pits, in the hope of averting strike action. The Government also agreed to pump millions of pounds into the industry.
76 YEARS AGO (1942)
US President Roosevelt authorised the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps. An estimated 120,000 people were imprisoned in 10 camps for the duration of the war.
21 YEARS AGO (1997)
China’s leader Deng Xiaoping died aged 92. Succeeding Chairman Mao in 1978, Deng introduced economic reforms but was a hardliner, and responsible for ordering the army to crush the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests by students.
TODAY’S EVENTS
5pm American actor and comedian Keegan-michael Key addresses the Oxford Union.
7.30pm Former Labour leader Ed
BIRTHDAYS
Kiss from a Rose singer Seal is 55 today. He studied architecture. Singer Smokey Robinson is 78. He fronted The Miracles before his string of Motown hits. Dumb and Dumber actor Jeff Daniels is 63. He plays the banjo. Traffic and Sin City actor Benicio Del Toro is 51. He was born in Puerto Rico. And many happy returns to loyal Mirror reader Mick Love, of South West London, who turns 67 today.
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