Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
TODAY: WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 2018
On this day 44 YEARS AGO (1974)
We reported that President Nixon agreed to hand over the Watergate tapes after being ordered to by the US Supreme Court ahead of the trial of six former aides.
51 YEARS AGO (1965)
Bob Dylan played his first electric gig at the Newport Folk Festival where he was booed for this shift to rock from political songwriting.
26 YEARS AGO (1992)
A spectacular ceremony started the 25th Olympics in Barcelona where a record 169 nations took part, many of them newly independent.
Birthdays
Model Iman is 63. Top Gear star Matt Leblanc is 51. Singer Rita Marley is 72. She was married to reggae legend Bob. Former Welsh rugby star Gareth Thomas is 44. And many happy returns to Mirror reader Gareth
Roynon from Newport, Gwent who turns 50 today.
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Today’s events
8am The New Forest and Hampshire County Show in Brockenhurst, Hants.
9am 137th Sandringham Flower Show at the Queen’s estate in Norfolk.
12.30pm Donald Trump meets European Commission President Jean-claude Juncker at the White House.
8pm Pet Shop Boys’ Inner Sanctum show at Royal Opera House in London.
Today’s giggle
I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put down.