Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
TUESDAY, JULY 17, 2018
48 YEARS AGO (1970)
Our front page covered the strike by 47,000 dockers which had forced the Tory government to declare a state of emergency amid soaring meat prices and a threat of food shortages. The dockers’ first national walk-out since 1926 crippled UK ports.
100 YEARS AGO (1918)
Russian Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra and their five children were executed at Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia where they were being held by the Bolsheviks.
42 YEARS AGO (1976)
Twenty-five African countries boycotted the opening ceremony of the Montreal Olypmics in protest at New Zealand’s rugby links with South Africa. The International Olympic Committee had banned South Africa from taking part because of the country’s apartheid system.
TODAY’S EVENTS
9am Bank of England governor Mark Carney delivers financial stability reports to the Treasury Committee, at the Farnborough Air Show, Hants. 10am Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman and Treasury Secretary Liz
BIRTHDAYS
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall is 71. She and Prince Charles are distant cousins. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is 64. She was brought up in East Germany. Hunger Games actor Donald Sutherland is 83. He started his career as a radio DJ. And many happy returns to Mirror readers Irene Evans from Formby, Liverpool, who is 70 and Keith Parry from Cwmbran, Torfaen, who turns 60 today.
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Truss are among the speakers at the Royal Society ACME mathematics education conference in London. 5.30pm Former UK First Lady Michelle Obama addresses The Hunter Foundation philanthropy dinner at the Edinburgh Exhibition and Conference Centre.
6pm Launch of American singing legend Cher’s new animal welfare charity, Free The Wild, at the BFI Southbank in London.
TODAY’S GIGGLE
Thanks for explaining the word ‘many’ to me, it means a lot.