Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
TODAY: THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 2018
On this day
We captured scenes of joy following the e release of the Birmingham Six after their convictions for the 1975 bombings, s, which killed 21, were quashed.
101 YEARS AGO (1917)
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicated following the revolution of March 2. It led to the imprisonment, and later death, of the Russian royal family.
79 YEARS AGO (1939)
German troops invaded Czechoslovakia in violation of the Munich Agreement. Hitler then proclaimed a German protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Birthdays
Actress Eva Longoria is 43. Model Penny LancasterStewart is 47. Guitarist Ry Cooder is 71, and musician Will.i.am is 43. And many happy returns to twins and Mirror readers Christine Ainsworth, of Macclesfield, Cheshire, and Janet Hodge, of Cleethorpes, Lincs, who turn 70 today.
Today’s events
8.50am Vertical Rush fundraising race in aid of Shelter up the 932 steps of London’s Tower 42. 11am Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson delivers speech to the Policy Exchange think-tank. 6.15pm Screening of Pacific Rim Uprising attended by John Boyega at Vue West End, Leicester Square.
Today’s giggle
What do you call it when Batman skips church? Christian Bale