TODAY: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2018
On this day 41 YEARS AGO (1977)
We chronicled “the worst disaster in aviation history” when two 747 Jumbo jets collided and burst into flames on the runway at Tenerife airport killing 583.
79 YEARS AGO (1939)
Fascist leader General Francisco Franco captured Madrid after a three-year siege in Spain’s civil war. He would later rule until 1975.
39 YEARS AGO (1979)
PM James Callaghan lost a confidence vote brought by Tory leader Margaret Thatcher by one vote. She would win May’s election.
Birthdays
Singer Lady Gaga is 32. Wedding Crashers’ star Vince Vaughn is 48. Actress Julia Stiles is 37. Comedian
Nick Frost is 46. And many happy returns to Mirror readers Stuart
Hayes, from Sheffield, who is 65 and Yvonne
Fahy, from North West London, who turns 49 today.
Today’s events
9.30am Unveiling of new commission for Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth, ‘The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist’, by Michael Rakowitz.
1pm Sir Ken Dodd’s funeral at Liverpool Cathedral.
3pm Giant 10th birthday card delivered to No10 to mark a decade of the England-wide bus pass for older and disabled people.
5.15pm Premiere of Freak Show, with Bette Midler, at BFI Flare, London.
Today’s giggle
6.30 is the best time on a clock... hands down.