TODAY: SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017
ON THIS DAY 12 YEARS AGO (2005)
Our front page celebrated Tony Blair’s historic third election victory on his 52nd birthday. Blair became the first Labour PM to have three consecutive election wins, but the party’s majority was slashed by more than half, standing at just 66 seats compared to the 160 it had held previously.
51 YEARS AGO (1966)
The Moors murderers were jailed for life. Ian Brady and his girlfriend Myra Hindley were sentenced for the killing of Edward Evans, 17, Lesley Ann Downey, 10 and 12-year-old John Kilbride on Saddleworth Moor, near Manchester.
63 YEARS AGO (1954)
Medical student Roger Bannister became the first athlete to run a mile in under four minutes. Bannister achieved his time of 3 minutes 59.4 seconds helped by pace-makers Chris Brasher and Chris Chataway, in Oxford.
BIRTHDAYS
Actor George Clooney is 56. He handwrites his scripts. Ex-PM Tony Blair is 64. He started a rock band called Ugly Rumours. Actress
Gabourey Sidibe is 34. She was nominated for an Oscar for playing a teen mum in Precious. Musician Bob
Seger is 72. His songs have been covered by Thin Lizzy and Metallica. And many happy returns to Mirror readers John Cassidy of Sutton Coldfield, West Mids, who is 80 and Reverend Stanislav Cikanek, of The Oval, South London, 74.
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