Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
TODAY: TUESDAY, OCT 24, 2017
On this day 75 YEARS AGO (1942)
US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s goodwill visit to Britain got front page coverage. She felt it would be valuable to see Britons’ experience of the war.
72 YEARS AGO (1945)
The United Nations was formally inaugurated at a ceremony at the US State Department in Washington DC.
34 YEARS AGO (1983)
Serial killer Dennis Nilsen went on trial for six murders. The ex-civil servant would later admit to 15 or 16 victims and got a whole life sentence.
Birthdays
Footballer Wayne Rooney is 32. Rapper Drake is 31. Aussie PM Malcolm Turnbull is 63. And many happy returns to readers Regan Kingston, of Oxford, who is 71 and Jay Mercer, of Plymouth who is nine today.
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Today’s events
9am Campaigners and community leaders gather in Parliament Square on the first anniversary of the demolition of the Calais Jungle camp.
10.30am Shadow Chancellor John Mcdonnell addresses a rally about school cuts.
6pm Rock group Metallica plays at London’s O2.
7pm Diana Rigg addresses the Cambridge Union.
Today’s giggle
Five out of six scientists say Russian Roulette is safe.