Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
TODAY: TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 2018
On this day 46 YEARS AGO (1972)
We reveal the aftermath of the crash of a Brussels-bound flight just after take-off at Heathrow, the UK’S worst air disaster until Lockerbie in 1988.
54 YEARS AGO (1964)
The US Senate passed the Civil Rights Act, giving African-americans voting rights and banning segregation in schools.
31 YEARS AGO (1987)
Basque separatists ETA planted a car bomb outside a supermarket in Barcelona, killing 21 and wounding 45.
Birthdays
Guardians of the Galaxy star Zoe Saldana is 40. She wanted to be a ballet dancer. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who was born in New York, is 54. Poldark actor Aidan Turner is 35. His dream role is Napoleon. Mirror reader Margaret Taylor of Chatham, Kent, turns 71 today.
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Today’s events
9.30am Minute’s silence to mark one year since the mosque attack in Finsbury Park, London. 3pm Memorial for Notting Hill Carnival co-founder Sam King, who arrived in 1948 on the Empire Windrush, at Westminster Abbey.
8pm US rockers Foo Fighters’ on stage for gig at Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium.
Today’s giggle
Why couldn’t the pirate learn the alphabet? Because he was always lost at C.