On this day
70 YEARS AGO (1950) Our frontline report from the Korean War revealed three North Korean divisions had attacked US forces on General MacArthur’s “line of no retreat”.
60 YEARS AGO (1960) John F Kennedy, 43, was nominated as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate. His critics claimed he was too young to be President.
35 YEARS AGO (1985) Live Aid concerts at London’s Wembley Stadium and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, USA, raised £30million for famine relief in Ethiopia and Sudan.
Today’s giggle
What’s the most detailoriented ocean? The Specific.
Indiana Jones star Harrison Ford is 78. He is a former carpenter. Star Trek actor Sir Patrick Stewart is 80. He is a Monty Python fan. Inventor Erno Rubik is 76. Some 350 million Rubik’s Cubes have been sold worldwide. Equestrian Charlotte Dujardin is 35. She began riding at two. And many happy returns to Mirror reader Jane McFarlane from North London, who turns 56 today.
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