On this day
10 YEARS AGO (2008) Our front page reported how Barack Obama had made history by becoming the first black President of the US.
78 YEARS AGO (1940) Franklin D Roosevelt became the first US President to be elected for a third term. He died in 1945 – a few months into his fourth term.
40 YEARS AGO (1978) Iran’s PM Jaffer Sharif-Emami was forced to quit amid widespread religious violence across the country.
Today’s giggle
I used to work in a shoe recycling shop. It was sole destroying. Bridge Over Troubled Water pop star Art Garfunkel is 77. Everything I Do singer Bryan Adams is 59. He’s also a pro photographer. Model and presenter Alexa Chung is 35. And many happy returns to Mirror reader Eric Tugwell, of Guildford, Surrey, who is 74, and future reader Maya Grace Pigott, of Liverpool, who turns one today.
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