Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
TODAY: TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2018
73 YEARS AGO (1945)
Our front page declared UK and US scientists had harnessed “the basic power of the universe” – atomic energy in the form of a bomb – to hit Japan.
42 YEARS AGO (1976)
NASA’S Viking 2 went into orbit around Mars as part of its mission to send back photographs of suitable landing sites.
31 YEARS AGO (1987)
American Lynne Cox, 30, became the first person to swim across the 2.7-mile Bering Strait between the US and the Soviet Union.
Birthdays
Actress Charlize Theron is 43. Her first language is Afrikaans. X Files star David
Duchovny is 58. His break came as the star of a beer advert. Comedian Alexei Sayle is 66. He grew up in a communist family. And Mirror reader Sheila Bell of Douglas, Isle of Man, turns 66 today. If you’d like us to mention the birthday of a loved one, write to Birthdays, Daily Mirror, One Canada Square, London E14 5AP or yourvoice@mirror.co.uk
Today’s events
9.30am Office for National Statistics puts out internet use figures.
9.30am Scottish Deputy First Minister at Firrhill High School, Edinburgh, on exam results day.
10am Charlotte Hawkins takes to water on Ladies’ Day at Cowes Week.
3.30pm Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson addresses the Atlantic Council in Washington DC.
Today’s giggle
The guy next door worships exhaust pipes. He’s a Catholic converter.