Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14,2018
ON THIS DAY 78 YEARS AGO (1940)
Our front page told how Buckingham Palace had been hit during a German bombing raid. The King and Queen were unharmed and left shortly after to visit other bombed parts of the capital. Three staff were injured.
36 YEARS AGO (1982)
Former Hollywood star Princess Grace of Monaco died after the brakes on her 10-year-old Rover failed and it fell 100ft down a ravine near Monte Carlo, turning over several times.
117 YEARS AGO (1901)
Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as the 26th President of the US after predecessor William Mckinley died of wounds from an assassination attack. The political progressive is considered one of the greatest presidents and his face is carved into Mount Rushmore alongside Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln.
TODAY’S EVENTS
8am Official opening of London Fashion Week.
9.30am Harrogate Autumn Flower Show opens at the Great Yorkshire Showground. Runs until Sunday. 11am Bank of England Governor Mark
BIRTHDAYS
Jurassic Park actor Sam Neill is 71. He starred horror flick Omen III and Dead Calm. A-ha singer Morten Harket is 59. Walking Dead actor Andrew Lincoln is 45. He played Egg in the 1995 series This Life. Rapper Nas is 45. MTV voted him the fifth best rapper of all time. And many happy returns to Mirror readers
Clint Gibson from Penrith, Cumbria, who is 56 and Pam Brierley from Morecambe, Lancs, 76 today.
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Carney delivers the Whitaker Lecture at the Central Bank of Ireland, Dublin. Noon Designer Steuart Padwick’s 9m high Head Above Water sculpture goes on display on London’s Southbank in support of Time To Change’s campaign to remove the stigma of mental health.
6.30pm Scottish rockers Primal Scream play 3D Festival in Dundee to mark tomorrow’s opening of the V&A in the city.
TODAY’S GIGGLE
Where are average things manufactured?
The satisfactory.