Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
SATURDAY, SEPT 2, 2017
ON THIS DAY 34 YEARS AGO (1983)
Our front page revealed that Korean Airlines Flight 007 had been shot down by Russian MIG fighters with the loss of all 269 lives. The Soviets mistook the airliner for a US spy plane when it violated Russian airspace.
72 YEARS AGO (1945)
Japanese officials signed the document of unconditional surrender on board the US battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. According to the terms, it was forced to recognise the authority of US General Douglas Macarthur.
23 YEARS AGO (1994)
Record Breakers presenter Roy Castle died from lung cancer aged 62. He had never smoked but believed he contracted the disease after years of playing trumpet in smoky jazz clubs.
TODAY’S EVENTS
2.30pm: Lib Dem President Baroness Sal Brinton speaks on the opening day of the Welsh Lib Dem autumn conference in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire. Dinner with party leader Sir Vince Cable is at 8pm.
BIRTHDAYS
Actor Keanu Reeves is 53. His name means “cool breeze over the mountains” in Hawaiian. Ex-boxing champ Lennox Lewis is 52. He enjoys chess. Actress Salma Hayek,
51, was expelled from boarding school. Moira Stuart, 68, was the first female Afrocaribbean newsreader on UK TV. And many happy returns to Mirror readers Betty Mcfie,
of Dundee, 70, and Peter Ludwell, of Castleford, West Yorks, who turns 77 today.
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