TODAY: MONDAY, MARCH 12, 2018
On this day 33 YEARS AGO (1985)
Our front page announced new Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev – who succeeded Konstantin Chernenko – had offered a “friendly hand” to the West.
34 YEARS AGO (1984)
Half of Britain’s 187,000 miners walked out in protest against the threat of 20 pits being shut with 20,000 job losses.
49 YEARS AGO (1969)
Beatle Paul McCartney wed US photographer Linda Eastman at Marylebone Register Office, London. She died from cancer in 1998.
Birthdays
Cabaret star Liza Minnelli is 72. McFly’s Danny Jones is 32. Mirror agony aunt Coleen Nolan is 53. And many happy returns to Mirror readers Barbara Simpson, from Welwyn Garden City, Herts, who is 90 and
Patrick Holland, from Brentwood, Essex, who turns 86 today.
Today’s events
3.15pm The Queen and Royal Family attend the Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey.
6pm Ex-Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO, General Philip Breedlove, speaks about policy towards Russia at House of Commons.
7.30pm Final of the Funny Women Awards, London’s Duchess Theatre.
Today’s giggle
What’s the difference between ignorance and apathy? I don’t know and I don’t care.