Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
TODAY: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2022
On this day 104 YEARS AGO (1918)
We showed the celebrations following the Allies’ victory in the First World War, with King George V and Queen Mary greeting jubilant crowds from the balcony of Buckingham Palace.
95 YEARS AGO (1927)
Leon Trotsky was expelled from the ruling Communist Party after leading a failed campaign against rival Stalin. He was killed by a Soviet agent in Mexico in 1940.
38 YEARS AGO (1984)
Tory Chancellor Nigel Lawson announced the £1 note would be withdrawn and replaced with a £1 coin. The £1 note ceased to be legal tender on March 11, 1988.
Today’s giggle
I’m starting my new job as an apprentice bell-ringer. They’re showing me the ropes.
Birthdays
The Witches star Anne Hathaway is 40. She has the same name as Shakespeare’s wife. La La Land star Ryan Gosling is 42. He is married to actress Eva Mendes. Musician Neil Young is 77. He had polio as a child. Former US figure skater Tonya Harding is 52. And many happy returns to Mirror readers Bridie
Connolly, of North London, who turns 82 today and Nell Davis of Lewisham, South
East London, who turns 103.
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