Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
TODAY: TUESDAY, JULY 24, 2018
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On this day 53 YEARS AGO (1965)
Our front page reported how the Tory leadership fight, triggered when Sir Alec Douglas-home quit, was set to throw the party into “utter confusion”.
75 YEARS AGO (1943)
Operation Gomorrah, the RAF and USAF’S day and night bombing raids on Hamburg, led to a firestorm that killed 42,600 civilians.
49 YEARS AGO (1969)
Briton Gerald Brooke, a teacher facing spy charges in the Soviet Union, was freed after four years’ jail in exchange for six agents.
Birthdays
Singer Jennifer Lopez is 49. She has a net worth of £284million. Actor Danny Dyer is 41. He can trace his ancestors back to Edward III. Wonder Woman actress Lynda Carter is 67. She was Miss America in 1972. And many happy returns to Mirror reader Michael Wightman of Warrington, who is 65.
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Today’s events
9.30am Department for Transport releases figures on most crowded railway stations and journeys.
10am International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt speech at Global Disability Summit in Olympic Park, London.
10.15am Start of stage 16 of the Tour de France.
11am Speech on UK manufacturing after Brexit by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in Birmingham.
Today’s giggle
A termite walks into a bar and says: “Where is the bar tender?”