TODAY: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2018
On this day 56 YEARS AGO (1962)
Our front page revealed how London “groaned to a standstill” in the worst night of the three-day “Great Smog”.
63 YEARS AGO (1955)
Clement Attlee stepped down as Labour leader after suffering a stroke. He was 72 and led the party for 20 years. In 1942 he became Deputy PM in the War Cabinet under Winston Churchill.
39 YEARS AGO (1979)
Lord Nicholas Soames was announced as the transitional governor of Rhodesia with a mandate to implement free and democratic elections.
Today’s giggle
Why don’t fish play basketball? They have issues with the net.
Birthdays
Ex-footballer John Terry is 38. He remains Chelsea’s highest scoring defender. American singer/songwriter Tom Waits is 69. All Saints singer Nicole Appleton is 44. Her sister Natalie is also in the group. And many happy returns to Mirror readers Peter St Clair, from South Shields, Tyne & Wear, who is 70 and Ron Jarratt, from Darlaston, West Mids, who turns 90 today.