Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 2017
ON THIS DAY 98 YEARS AGO (1919)
We reported the death at the age of 82 of American steel magnate Andrew Carnagie. After selling his company for $480million in 1901, he became a philanthropist giving away $350million of his fortune – the equivalent of $77billion today.
53 YEARS AGO (1964)
Great Train Robber Charlie Wilson, 32, was sprung from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham by three men who broke into the jail and over-powered guards.
32 YEARS AGO (1985)
A Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash landed on a remote mountainside 70 miles from Tokyo. All 509 passengers, mostly holidaymakers, died, along with 15 crew. It remains the deadliest crash ever involving a single aircraft.
TODAY’S EVENTS
1.30pm Chris Packham and Peter Egan join a protest against hunting and culling, in Cavendish Square in Central London.
1.15pm The Blackpool Airshow begins with planes flying over the
BIRTHDAYS
Model and actress Cara Delevingne turns 24. Her grandmother was lady-inwaiting to Princess Margaret. Italian footballer
Mario Balotelli, who played for Man City and Liverpool and was once named best dressed man in the world, is 26. Actor
Casey Affleck, who won an Oscar for his role in Manchester by the Sea, turns 41. His first name is actually Caleb.
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