Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
SATURDAY, MAY 26, 2018
36 YEARS AGO (1982)
Our front page reported a massive Argentine air attack had badly damaged a Royal Navy Type 42 destroyer. The vessel, later revealed to be HMS Coventry, went down with the loss of 19 sailors.
78 YEARS AGO (1940)
The siege of Calais by the Germans ended with the surrender of the British and French garrison. Some 20,000 allied troops were taken prisoner.
95 YEARS AGO (1923)
The first Le Mans 24 Hours car race was held near the town of Le Mans in northern France. The “Grand Prix of Endurance and Efficiency” has been held annually ever since with the exception of a 10-year break from 1939 during the Second World War.
TODAY’S EVENTS
8am Final day of the Chelsea Flower Show. Highlights on BBC2, 6.45pm. 10am The Major General’s Review on Horse Guards Parade in London – the first rehearsal for Trooping the Colour for the Queen’s annual
BIRTHDAYS
Alice in Wonderland actress
Helena Bonham Carter is
52. Her great-grandfather was the Liberal PM Herbert Asquith. Labour leader
Jeremy Corbyn is 69. Musician Lenny Kravitz is
54. Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks is 70. And many happy returns to Mirror readers Elsie Young, from Sunderland, who is 84, and
Barry Kennedy, from Whitehaven, Cumbria, who turns 78 today.
If you’d like us to mention the birthday of a loved one, write to Birthdays, Daily Mirror, One Canada Square, London E14 5AP or yourvoice@mirror.co.uk
birthday parade on June 9.
Noon Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith play BBC Radio 1’s Biggest Weekend in Swansea. Events are also taking place in Belfast and Perth.
5pm Aston Villa play Fulham in the