Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
WEDNESDAY JULY 11, 2018
ON THIS DAY 78 YEARS AGO (1940)
We declared the RAF had downed 14 Luftwaffe planes on what has come to be regarded as the first day of the Battle of Britain. RAF Hurricanes and Spitfires fought off wave after wave of German fighters.
31 YEARS AGO (1987)
Veterans marked the 70th anniversary of the 1917 battle of Passchendaele in Belgium which claimed 500,000 lives.
136 YEARS AGO (1882)
The British Navy bombarded the Egyptian port of Alexandria to protect UK and French interests in the Suez Canal amid an uprising by Egyptian nationalists. The attack preceded a fullscale invasion of the country which remained under British rule until 1956. To find out how a young and unassuming Queen Victoria rose to be the head of the world’s greatest empire, tune into Young Victoria on Yesterday at 8pm.
TODAY’S EVENTS
11am Prime Minister Theresa May and Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson attend the first day of the NATO summit in Brussels.
3pm Immigration Minister Caroline Nokes is to give evidence to the
BIRTHDAYS
Designer Giorgio Armani is
84. He studied medicine before turning to fashion. Ex-corrie actor Craig Charles is 54. He started out as an performance poet. Former Men Behaving Badly actress Caroline Quentin is
58. She’s president of Campaign for National Parks. And many happy returns to Mirror reader
Jim Anderson, from Sunderland, who turns 83 today.
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