TODAY: WEDS, NOVEMBER 8, 2017
On this day 74 YEARS AGO (1943)
Our front page told how the Germans suffered their bloodiest weekend of the war so far as the tide turned on the Russian front.
52 YEARS AGO (1965)
The death penalty for murder was abolished and replaced with life imprisonment.
43 YEARS AGO (1974)
Police searched for Lord Lucan after the murder of his children’s nanny Sandra Rivett and an attack on his wife Lady Veronica. An inquest later found the missing aristocrat guilty of murder.
Birthdays
Comedian Sir Ken Dodd is 90. Chef Gordon Ramsay is 51. Screenwriter Richard Curtis is 61. Musician Roy Wood is 71. And many happy returns to readers Pat Ellis of Doncaster, 60, and Tracy Juen from Carlisle, 47 today.
Today’s events
9.20am Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt addresses the NHS Providers annual conference in Birmingham.
10.30am New Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson attends the NATO Defence Ministers meeting in Brussels.
6.45pm Premiere in London of 89, football documentary about title-deciding match between Arsenal and Liverpool.
Today’s giggle
My wife just found out I replaced our bed with a trampoline. She hit the roof.