TODAY: TUESDAY AUGUST 21, 2018
On this day 29 years ago (1989)
Our front page showed salvage workers aboard the sunken Marchioness party boat on the Thames after it hit dredger Bowbelle – killing 51 of 150 passengers.
35 years ago (1983)
Philippines opposition leader Benigno Aquino was shot dead by troops loyal to dictator Ferdinand Marcos as he arrived back from exile.
107 years ago (1911)
The Mona Lisa was stolen by Italian thief Vincenzo Perugia who hid in the museum overnight and walked out with the painting under his smock.
Birthdays
Sprinter Usain Bolt is 32. He also plays cricket. Nashville actress Hayden
Panettiere is 29. Her surname means baker in Italian. Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall is 62. She was born in Liverpool. And many happy returns to Mirror reader Denise
Gibson from North London who turns 50 today.
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Today’s events
9am Annual health check of Whipsnade Zoo animals at Dunstable, Beds.
9.30am Office for National Statistics releases public sector net borrowing figures.
5.45pm UK premiere of gangster film Yardie, directed by Idris Elba, at BFI Southbank in London.
6.30pm Labour MP Chuka Umunna delivers speech on youth violence in Brixton, South London.
Today’s giggle
Never date cross-eyed people. They might see somebody on the side.