TODAY: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
On this day
107 YEARS AGO (1911) Our front page showed the Royal Navy’s first airship in its “death throes”. It broke in two in strong winds as it left its hangar for trials in Barrow Dock and was never rebuilt. 68 YEARS AGO (1950) UN troops retook the South Korean capital Seoul, three months after it fell to North Korea’s communists. More than two million died in the three-year Korean War. 61 YEARS AGO (1957) A thousand US paratroopers escorted nine African-American children to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, to protect them from racists objecting to the 1954 Supreme Court ruling that segregated schools were unconstitutional.
Birthdays
Actor Will Smith is 50. He can solve a Rubik’s cube in under 55 seconds. Declan
Donnelly is 43. He is worth £62million. Catherine Zeta-Jones is 49. She shares a birthday with husband
Michael Douglas, 74. And many happy returns to Mirror reader Sheila Peters, from Stafford, who is 90 today.
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Today’s events
10.10am Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer on EU and the economy at the Labour conference.
2pm US President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron and PM Theresa May are among the speakers at the United Nations General Assembly debate in New York.
6.30pm: National Reality TV Awards at Porchester Hall in West London. I had a job drilling holes for water – it was well boring.
Leo Kearse
Today’s giggle