Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
TODAY: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2019
On this day 71 YEARS AGO (1948)
Our front page warned of an economic crisis after the war had depleted our gold and dollar reserves and food and other essentials were running low.
60 YEARS AGO (1959)
PM Harold Macmillan had talks at the Kremlin with Nikita Khrushchev during the first visit to the Soviet Union by a British premier since Winston Churchill during the war.
47 YEARS AGO (1972)
Palestinian terrorists set free 172 hostages from a hijacked Lufthansa jet in Yemen. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine were paid a £360,000 ransom.
Today’s giggle
I paid £2,000 to insure my Delorean car. But I only drive it from time to time.
Birthdays
Mary Poppins star Emily Blunt is 36. She is wed to US actor John Krasinski. Michael Caine’s wife Shakira is 72.
She is a former Miss Guyana. Trainspotting actress Kelly Macdonald is 43. She is married to Travis bassist Dougie Payne. Michael Dell is 54. He founded the Dell Computer Corporation while at university. And many happy returns to Mirror reader Margaret Jessett, of Fleet, Hants, who is 81.
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