TODAY: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2018
On this day 74 YEARS AGO (1944)
We reported “Allied shock troops” engaged in the Battle of Normandy had captured Carentan, paving an advance across the Cherbourg peninsula.
51 YEARS AGO (1967)
The Soviet Union demanded the immediate withdrawal of Israeli troops from Arab lands seized in the Six Day War.
27 YEARS AGO (1991)
Boris Yeltsin became the first democratically elected president of Russia, his party winning 58.6% of the vote.
Birthdays
The Olsen twins, Mary Kate and Ashley are 32. They have a net worth of £307million. Coronation Street star Kym Marsh is 42 and actor Malcolm McDowell is 75. And many happy returns to Mirror reader Eric Delatouche from Rayleigh, Essex who turns 85 today.
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Today’s events
10am Bob Higgins, a former youth coach at Southampton football club, appears at Bournemouth crown court charged with non-recent sexual abuse against boys.
2pm The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall visit Omagh to meet emergency services and residents affected by the IRA bomb in 1998.
6pm European premiere of Ocean’s 8 in London.
Today’s giggle
What did the ocean say to the shore? Nothing, it just waved.