TODAY: WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017
ON THIS DAY 33 YEARS AGO (1984) Our front page told of the arrest of miners’ union chief Arthur Scargill as he led a group of 30 pickets at the Orgreave coking plant in South Yorkshire. It led to heavy fighting between the striking miners and police. 60 YEARS AGO (1957) Marilyn Monroe’s husband, the playwright Arthur Miller, was found guilty of being in contempt of US Congress after refusing to reveal the names of alleged Communist writers with whom he met 10 years previously. 101 YEARS AGO (1916) The Battle of Jutland, the only major naval skirmish of the First World War, was fought between the British Grand Fleet and German High Seas Fleet. Some 8,500 sailors perished. Despite losing more ships, the British claimed victory as the German fleet was put out of action for the rest of the war. BIRTHDAYS Actor Clint Eastwood is 87. He supports gun control in the US. Actress Brooke
Shields is 52. She graduated from Princeton University with a degree in French literature. Ex-Labour Deputy PM John Prescott is 79. He failed the 11-Plus exam for grammar school. Actor Colin Farrell is 41. He has a fear of flying. And many happy returns to Mirror readers Dave
Samson, from Jersey, who is 65 and Peter Fountain, of Hemel Hempstead, Herts, who turns 70 today.
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