SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 2018

ON THIS DAY 26 YEARS AGO (1992)

We covered the resignation of Labour leader Neil Kinnock following the party’s general election defeat and the fourth consecutive victory for the Conservatives. He was succeeded by John Smith.

48 YEARS AGO (1970)

An oxygen tank exploded on board the Apollo 13 spacecraft, putting the lives of astronauts Captain James Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise in peril. They returned safely to Earth three days later.

4 YEARS AGO (2014)

Some 276 school girls were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in Chibok, Nigeria, by members of the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram. 112 are still missing.

TODAY’S EVENTS

4pm: Anti-apartheid campaigner Winnie Mandela will be buried in a private ceremony after an open-air service at the Orlando Stadium in Soweto.

7.45pm: Man City go away to Dr Zhivago actress Julie Christie is 78. Her father ran an Indian tea plantation. Make-up entrepreneur Bobbi Brown is 61. She does her make-up in the car. Doctor Who actor Peter Capaldi is 60. His parents owned an ice-cream business. And many happy returns to Mirror reader Maisie Jones, from Chelsfield, Kent, who turns 18 today.

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