Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 2018
Our front page showed a smiling Queen amid the celebrations for her Silver Jubilee. A thanksgiving service at St Paul’s was attended by US President Jimmy Carter and PM James Callaghan. More than a million lined London’s streets and 12,000 street parties were held.
69 YEARS AGO (1949)
George Orwell’s novel 1984 laid out a nightmare vision of the future in which citizens are kept in a state of permanent war, subjected to totalitarian rule and watched over by Big Brother.
50 YEARS AGO (1968)
James Earl Ray was arrested in London for the murder of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King. He was stopped trying to board a flight to Brussels at Heathrow. Ray was extradited to the US, found guilty and jailed for 99 years. He remained inside until his death in 1998.
TODAY’S EVENTS
9am: Defence Minister Gavin Williamson meets US Secretary of Defence James Mattis for talks in London.
BIRTHDAYS
Rapper Kanye West is 41. Kanye means ‘the only one’ in Swahili. Singer Bonnie Tyler is 67. She was the first Welsh singer to top the US Billboard chart. Inventor of the world wide web Sir Tim Berners-lee is 63. He is a professor of Computer Science at Oxford. Singer
Nancy Sinatra is 78. She is Frank Sinatra’s eldest daughter. And many happy returns to Mirror reader
Megan Carnley from Knottingley, West Yorks, who turns 21 today.
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