TODAY: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
On this day 40 YEARS AGO (1978)
We told how 10 survivors of a plane crash in Rhodesia were mown down by guerillas fighting the white minority government. It later emerged that the plane had been shot down.
32 YEARS AGO (1986)
A stand-off with a hijacked Pan Am jet at Pakistan’s Karachi airport ended in carnage after four gunmen opened fire on the hostages.
21 YEARS AGO (1997)
Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa died of a heart attack, aged 87, at her Missionaries of Charity HQ in Calcutta, India.
Birthdays
Beetlejuice star Michael Keaton is 67. Comedian and actor Johnny Vegas is 48. One Million Years BC screen siren Raquel Welch is 78. Charmed and Scream actress Rose McGowan is 45. And many happy returns to Mirror readers Kevin Sample, from Newcastle, who is 75, and Ken Owen, from Selby, North Yorks, who turns 85 today.
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Today’s events
10am MPs on the Women and Equalities Committee hear evidence about antiSemitism, at Portcullis House, London.
11am Ex-England captain Alastair Cook holds a press conference at the Oval, London, discussing his impending retirement from international cricket.
1pm The third reading of the Voyeurism (No2) Act the “upskirting” Bill.
6.30pm GQ Men of the Year Awards in London.
Today’s giggle
I went on a once-in-alifetime holiday. Never again…