Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
TUESDAY, JULY 10, 2018
36 YEARS AGO (1982)
Our front page revealed a break in at Buckingham Palace while the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh were there. Michael Fagan, 31, scaled a wall and a drainpipe then spent 10 minutes talking to the Queen in her bedroom.
74 YEARS AGO (1943)
Allied troops parachuted into Sicily as hundreds of ships sailed from North Africa carrying troops, armoured vehicles and artillery for the planned invasion of Italy.
56 YEARS AGO (1962)
Telstar, the world’s first communications satellite, was launched by NASA from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The first privately sponsored space launch, it was a joint project between AT&T and Bell in the US, Britain’s GPO and France’s PTT to develop satellite communications over the Atlantic.
TODAY’S EVENTS
10am Justice Secretary David Gauke delivers speech on prison reform at Church House in London. 12.45pm RAF flypast to form over Suffolk to mark the 100th
BIRTHDAYS
12 Years a Slave actor
Chiwetel Ejiofor is 41. He enjoys sailing. Harper Beckham, whose middle name is Seven, turns seven. Little Mix’s Perrie Edwards is 25. Fiona Shaw, Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter films, is 60. Happy returns to Mirror readers Danny Grears, of Nuneaton, Warwickshire, who is 65 and
Jacqui Todd, of Thame, Oxon, who turns 70 today.
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