Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
TUESDAY, JULY 11, 2017
ON THIS DAY 77 YEARS AGO (1940)
Our front page announced that RAF Hurricanes and Spitfires had downed 14 Luftwaffe planes and badly damaged 23 more on what British historians now recognise as the first day of the Battle of Britain.
30 YEARS AGO (1987)
First World War veterans returned to Passchendaele in Belgium to mark the 70th anniversary of the bloodiest battles of the war that claimed the lives of half a million.
26 YEARS AGO (1991)
Labour MP Terry Fields was sentenced to 60 days in jail for refusing to pay his £373 poll tax bill. The former firefighter and left-wing MP for Liverpool Broadgreen was a fierce critic of Margaret Thatcher’s tax. He was expelled from Labour in December, 1991, for being a member of banned group Militant.
TODAY’S EVENTS
7.30am First day of the Great Yorkshire Show in Harrogate. 10.15am The Duchess of Cornwall is hosting a tea party as part of The
Duchess’s Bookshelves, a literacy campaign.
4pm House of Lords EU Select Committee questions Brexit Secretary David Davis. 5.30pm Coldplay perform in Cardiff tonight and tomorrow.
BIRTHDAYS
Fashion Designer Giorgio Armani is 83. He studied medicine before fashion. Actor Craig Charles is 53. He started out as a performance poet. Actress Caroline Quentin is 57. She is president of the charity, Campaign for National Parks. Guitarist Richie Sambora is 58. He left Bon Jovi after 30 years in 2013. And many happy returns to Mirror reader Kath Harkness from Preston, Lancs, who turns 70 today.
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FOR THE RECORD
Brian Robinson was the first Briton to win a stage of the Tour de France, not Robert Millar as we stated. (page 25, July 8th)