Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
ON THIS DAY 46 YEARS AGO (1972)
We blasted the German authorities for their handling of the Munich hostage crisis after 11 of the Israeli Olympic team held by Palestinian terrorist group Black September were killed.
95 YEARS AGO (1923)
The International Police Organisation, Interpol, was formed in Vienna, Austria, to formalise police co-operation between nations. Britain joined Interpol in 1928.
66 YEARS AGO (1952)
A coup by the Egyptian Army led by General Muhammad Neguib removed Prime Minister Aly Maher from office and abolished the monarchy under King Farouk and his son Fu’ad II. But two years later Neguib himself was deposed by Colonel Abdel Nasser.
TODAY’S EVENTS
11am First day of England v India at Kia Oval, London, the final cricket Test match of the summer.
2.30pm NASA launches a rocket in Virginia with an Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation
BIRTHDAYS
Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde is 67. Captain America actor Toby Jones
is 52. Disco legend Gloria Gaynor is 69. Many happy returns to Mirror readers Bill Roberts, of Nottingham, who is 81 and Helen Bishop,
of Knowle, Bristol, who is
75. And congratulations to readers Alfred and Joyce Openshaw, from Failsworth, Manchester, who celebrate their Golden Wedding anniversary today.
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