TODAY: THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2018
On this day 19 YEARS AGO (1999)
We reported the shooting dead of Fred Barras and wounding of his pal Brendon Fearon by Tony Martin who turned his Norfolk farm into a fortress after burglaries.
79 YEARS AGO (1939)
USSR and Nazi Germany signed the non-aggression Molotov–Ribbentrop pact carving up Poland, Finland, Romania and Baltic states.
12 YEARS AGO (2006)
Natascha Kampusch, abducted aged 10 from near her home in Vienna, escaped captor Wolfgang Priklopil after eight years.
Birthdays
Downton Abbey star Joanne Froggatt is 38. Ex-basketball star Kobe Bryant is 40. Jordan’s Queen Noor, fourth wife of the late King Hussein, is 67. And happy birthday to Mirror readers Kim
Cook, of Milton Keynes, Bucks, who is 31, and Edmund Woodhouse, of Sheringham, Norfolk, who turns 100 today.
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Today’s events
9.30am Jeremy Corbyn delivers the Alternative MacTaggart Lecture at Edinburgh TV Festival.
9.30am GCSE results out in England and Wales.
11am Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab speech in London about no-deal Brexit preparations.
4.30pm Comedian Frank Skinner hosts Edinburgh TV Awards.
7pm Launch of SpiceUp, Spice Girls exhibition at Manchester Central.
Today’s giggle
Two egotists started a fight. It was an I for an I.