Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2018
ON THIS DAY 62 YEARS AGO (1956)
We told how British Governor of Cyprus, Field Marshal Sir John Harding, ordered the deportation of Greek Cypriot leader, Archbishop Makarios. Makarios later became the first president of an independent Cyprus in 1960.
59 YEARS AGO (1959)
Thousands of Tibetans staged an armed uprising in the capital Lhasa against Chinese rule. Crowds gathered at the Dalai Lama’s palace after rumours of Chinese plans to abduct him. He fled on March 31.
49 YEARS AGO (1969)
Martin Luther King’s killer James Earl Ray was jailed for 99 years after he pleaded guilty to the murder so he could avoid the death penalty. Three days later he recanted, saying he had been set up, and demanded a retrial. He died in jail in 1998.
TODAY’S EVENTS
8.30am The annual Crufts Dog Show is held at Birmingham National Exhibition Centre until tomorrow. TV coverage on Channel 4, 4.30pm and 7pm.
10am The Scottish Labour Party
BIRTHDAYS
Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, is 54. He will inherit the title Duke of Edinburgh. Singer Robin Thicke is 41. His parents co-wrote the theme tune for US TV show Diff’rent Strokes. Singer Emeli Sande is 31. She has a degree in neuroscience.
And many happy returns to Mirror readers Kenneth Williams, from Cardiff, who is 91 and Brian Martin, from Sunderland, who turns 80 today.
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