Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2018
ON THIS DAY 70 YEARS AGO (1948)
After Britain’s 25-year mandate in Palestine, we revealed US President Truman officially recognised the new state of Israel under the provisional government of David Ben-gurion. Egypt immediately sent in troops.
61 YEARS AGO (1957)
Britain dropped its first hydrogen bomb in a series of tests in the Pacific. Built over two years by British scientists, it was equivalent to one million tons of TNT.
107 YEARS AGO (1911)
The Parliament Act was passed, establishing authority of the House of Commons over the House of Lords. The Act abolished the Upper Chamber’s right to veto legislation on fiscal matters. It also reduced the term of a parliament from seven years to five.
TODAY’S EVENTS
7.30am Team launch for Invictus Games Sydney 2018 at Horse Guards Parade in London. 9.30am Local Government Association Adult Social Care Conference in London. Speakers
BIRTHDAYS
Tennis player Andy Murray is 31. He had a boyhood obsession with James Bond. Princess Anne’s daughter
Zara Phillips is 37. She doesn’t carry a royal title. TV presenter Saira Khan is 48. She was runner up on the first series of BBC hit The Apprentice in 2005. And very many happy returns to Daily Mirror reader Connie Hughes from South East London who turns 83 today.
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