Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
TODAY: WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2018
On this day 50 YEARS AGO (1968)
We hailed PM Harold Wilson after he won support for his Prices and Incomes Bill, intended to safeguard “full employment and secure economic growth”.
89 YEARS AGO (1929)
The first Academy Awards took place. They lasted 15 minutes and 15 Oscars were given, including Best Actor to German Emil Jannings.
74 YEARS AGO (1943)
The SS crushed a Jewish uprising in the Warsaw ghetto. They were resisting transportation to the Treblinka death camp.
Birthdays
Transformers actress
Megan Fox is 32. Pop star Janet Jackson is 52. James Bond actor
Pierce Brosnan is 65. Former gymnast Olga Korbut is 63. And many happy returns to Mirror readers
Pam Hurn, from Oxford, who is 80, and
Stewart Smith from Lytham St Annes, Lancs, who is 70.
Today’s events
9am Shadow Chancellor John Mcdonnell addresses the Prison Officers’ Association annual conference in Southport. 10.45am Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley appears before the European Scrutiny committee at Westminster. 7.45pm Marseille play Atletico Madrid in the UEFA Europa League Final in Lyon, France.
Today’s giggle
I backed a horse last week at 10 to one. It came in at quarter past four.