TODAY: FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2018
On this day 107 YEARS AGO (1911)
We reported a strike by London transport workers turned “ugly” when vans carrying tons of food were stopped in a fight for a wage increase to 8p an hour.
28 YEARS AGO (1990)
The US Magellan spacecraft arrived at Venus after a 15-month journey from Earth to begin mapping the planet’s surface.
15 YEARS AGO (2003)
Britain’s hottest temperature of 38.1C (100.6F) recorded in Gravesend, Kent. Thousands went to the coast to cool off.
Birthdays
Antonio Banderas is 58. He wanted to be a footballer, not an actor. Charlie
Dimmock is 52. She presented Ground Force in the 1990s.
Roy Keane is 47. He was the most successful Man United captain ever. And happy returns to Mirror reader Jane
Hopper, of South West London, 55.
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Today’s events
9.30am Office for National Statistics releases gross domestic product figures.
9.45am Sovereign’s Parade at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Surrey, for 190 cadets.
6.15pm Tim Peake at Peterborough Cathedral with space module that brought him back to Earth.
8pm Premier League kicks off as Manchester United host Leicester City.
Today’s giggle
A dyslexic man walks into a bra . . .