TODAY: TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 2018
On this day
50 YRS AGO (1968) Our front page revealed Daniel “Dany le Rouge” Cohn-Bendit, leader of the student riots in Paris, had flown into London to record a BBC interview. 32 YRS AGO (1986) Labour expelled Liverpool council’s deputy leader, Derek Hatton, for his activities as part of the Trotskyist Militant group. 54 YRS AGO (1964) Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in jail after admitting planning sabotage acts to end apartheid in South Africa.
Birthdays
Ex-US President
George Bush Snr is 94. His nickname is Poppy. Comedian
Richard Ayoade is 41. He is very shy. Mona Lisa star Cathy Tyson is 53. She was married to actor Craig Charles. And happy birthday to Mirror reader David Ogmore
Lewis, from Chesham, Bucks, 94 today.
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Today’s events
1am Donald Trump will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore.
9.30am Unemployment figures from the Office for National Statistics will be released.
12.30pm England women’s cricket team will play South Africa in the second ODI at Hove.
8pm NHS chief executive Simon Stevens speaks at the Oxford Union.
Today’s giggle
What do you call a sleepwalking nun? A roamin’ Catholic.