Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
TODAY: THURSDAY JAN 18, 2018
On this day 35 YEARS AGO (1983)
We told how Selina Scott helped Britain “wake up to the era of breakfast TV”, after the BBC broke new ground. Its switchboard was jammed with callers offering praise.
51 YEARS AGO (1967)
Albert Desalvo was jailed for life for assaulting four women. During his trial he confessed to being the Boston Strangler, who murdered 13 women.
99 YEARS AGO (1919)
Paris Peace conference opened at Versailles to set the terms for the defeated powers of the First World War. It led to the map of Europe being redrawn. Birthdays Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is 47. Actor Kevin Costner is 63. Singer Estelle is 38. Actor Sir Mark Rylance is 58. And many happy returns to Mirror reader Ray Sorrell, of Southendon-sea, Essex, who turns 90 today.
Today’s events
9.10am Jeremy Corbyn visits East Midlands Ambulance Service HQ to highlight plight of NHS.
9.30am Lord Chancellor David Gauke sworn in at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.
2pm Theresa May hosts French President Emmanuel Macron at Sandhurst, Berks.
3.30pm Climate change report from Nasa officials.
Today’s giggle
If you have 13 apples in one hand and 10 oranges in the other, what do you have? Big hands.