TODAY: MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 2021

On this day 75 YEARS AGO (1946)

We reported on the first UN General Assembly in London. There was a row over who should be president with the majority wanting Belgian Foreign Minister Paul Spaak while the Soviets favoured Norwegian Trygve Lie.

59 YEARS AGO (1962)

Four thousand people died when a landslide of ice and rocks engulfed seven villages in the Andes, in north western Peru. Another avalanche in the region in 1970 killed 20,000.

21 YEARS AGO (2000)

Seven Scottish fishermen drowned when their scallop-dredger sank in gales in the Irish Sea. Their last ill-fated radio message said they were heading for safety to the Isle of Man.

Today’s giggle

Why shouldn’t you fall in love with a pastry chef? They’ll dessert you.

Birthdays

Leicester City star Jamie Vardy is 34. He was playing non-league football until 2012. R&B singer Mary J Blige is 50. She started out in the church choir. Countdown’s Rachel Riley is 35. She studied maths at Oxford. Former NUM leader Arthur Scargill is 83. He founded the Socialist Labour Party in 1996. And many happy returns to Daily Mirror reader Kevin Fletcher, from South Shields, Tyne and Wear, who turns 55 today.

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