On this day
46 YEARS AGO (1972) We told how parents of thalidomide children had rejected an £11.8million compensation offer from drug marketer Distillers Company. 63 YEARS AGO (1955) The Labour Party elected ex-Chancellor Hugh Gaitskell as leader after Clement Attlee suffered a stroke.
23 YEARS AGO (1995) The three-year Balkans War ended as Bosnian, Serb and Croat leaders signed the Dayton Accord in Paris.
Today’s giggle
I started a band called 999 Megabytes but we still haven’t had a gig. Comedian Miranda Hart is 46. Ex-England striker Michael Owen is 39. Designated Survivor actress Natascha McElhone is 49. Death on the Nile star Jane Birkin is 72. And many happy returns to Mirror readers Allan Webster, of Tonbridge, Kent, 65, and Margaret Roberts, from Sleaford, Lincs, who is 80.
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