Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 2018
On this day 39 YEARS AGO (1979)
We revealed US President Jimmy Carter’s cabinet offered to resign. He was criticised for his handling of the oil crisis caused by the revolution in Iran.
93 YEARS AGO (1925)
Volume One of Hitler’s autobiography, Mein Kampf, was published. Translated as My Struggle, it sold 9,473 copies in its first year.
71 YEARS AGO (1947)
King George VI signed the Indian Independence Act creating the two independent dominions of India and Pakistan.
Birthdays
Virgin entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson
is 68. Hollywood action star Vin Diesel
– real name Mark Sinclair Vincent – is 51. Former golfing champion Sir Nick Faldo is 61. And many happy returns to Mirror reader Gareth Harrison, from South London, who turns 48 today. If you’d like us to mention the birthday of a loved one, write to Birthdays, Daily Mirror, One Canada Square, London E14 5AP or yourvoice@mirror.co.uk
Today’s events
9.30am MPS on the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee take evidence from representatives of Grenfell residents’ groups on support for the survivors.
12.30am Australian Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop, addresses an event on future Uk-australia relations at Chatham House, London.
Today’s giggle
“Doctor, there’s a patient on the line who says he’s invisible.” “Tell him I can’t see him right now.”