TODAY: THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2017
ON THIS DAY 67 YEARS AGO (1950)
Our front page told how 2,000 battle-hardened British troops were headed for the frontline in the Korean War. We reported heavy fighting around the port of Pohang between US-led Allied forces and the Communist North Koreans. A prisoner said the enemy general had been given just hours to take the port or face being put to death.
16 YEARS AGO (2001)
Former president of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic was told by the International War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague that he was to be charged with genocide relating to the 1999 conflict in Kosovo. Milosevic died of a heart attack in 2006 before the trial concluded.
49 YEARS AGO (1968)
The Queen and the Duke of Windsor, formerly Edward VIII, were among the mourners at the funeral of Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, at Windsor Castle. The princess, a member of the deposed Greek royal family and mother to the present Duke of Kent, had died of a brain tumour, aged 61.
BIRTHDAYS
Actress Cameron Diaz is 45. She has a fear of germs and uses her elbows to open doors. Sculptor Sir Antony
Gormley is 67. He’s best known for creating The Angel of the North in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. US businessman Warren
Buffett is 87. He has an estimated fortune of £56billion. American former tennis player Andy Roddick is 35. He was named “Sexiest Athlete” in 2003. And many happy returns to Mirror readers Erin Hills from Barry, South Wales, who is 12, and Violet Bailey from Nottingham, who turns 100 today.
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