TODAY: SATURDAY DEC 30, 2017
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On this day 77 YEARS AGO (1940)
We told how the Luftwaffe dropped 100,000 incendiary bombs and 24,000 high explosives on London, killing more than 200 people.
93 YEARS AGO (1924)
Edwin Hubble confirmed the existence of other galaxies after discovering that objects, dismissed as dust or gas, were galaxies.
46 YEARS AGO (1971)
After Iran seized Iraqicontrolled islands in the Persian Gulf, Iraq boots out 60,000 Iranian nationals from its major cities.
Birthdays
Singer Ellie Goulding is 31. Instagram entrepreneur Kevin Systrom is 34. Former boxer Laila Ali is 40. Golfer Tiger Woods is 42. And many happy returns to Mirror readers Edna Farley, of Liverpool, who is 80, and young Gracie Moss, of Calne, Wilts, who is five today.
Today’s events
Noon Free preview party in Trafalgar Square ahead of London’s New Year’s Day Parade.
3pm Liverpool play Leicester City at Anfield in one of six Premier League clashes today. 7pm Edinburgh Hogmanay celebrations kick off with a torchlight procession along the Royal Mile.
Today’s giggle
I bought my friend an elephant for his room. He said, “Thanks”. I said “Don’t mention it.”