TODAY: SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2018
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On this day 67 YEARS AGO (1951)
We told of the assassination of Jordan’s King Abdullah at a Jerusalem mosque where he had gone to pray at his father’s grave. The gunman was shot dead.
13 YEARS AGO (2005)
Two weeks after 7/7, a series of attempted terrorist attacks brought London’s Underground network to a halt.
24 YEARS AGO (1994)
MP Tony Blair was elected Labour Party leader with 57% of the vote, beating contenders John Prescott and Margaret Beckett.
Birthdays
Musician Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, is 70. Singer Paloma Faith is 37. Actor Ross Kemp is 54. Singer Rebecca Ferguson is 32. And many happy returns to Mirror readers John Reddish, of Chesterfield, Derbys, who is 60, and Denis Pearce, of St Austell, Cornwall, who turns 95 today.
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Today’s events
9am The Farnborough International Airshow continues until tomorrow.
11.30am Chic’s Nile Rogers opens a free festival at Wembley Park, London, celebrating International Busking Day.
Noon Alexandra Burke plays the Northern Pride LGBT event at Nuns Moor in Newcastle.
8pm Grand finale of The Voice Kids live on ITV.
Today’s giggle
eBay is useless. I looked up lighters and they gave me 13,749 matches.