TODAY: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2022
On this day 48 YEARS AGO (1974)
The IRA bombed two Birmingham pubs in the “worst bloodshed of the terror campaign in England”. Twenty-one people died. Six men were jailed and freed in 1991 when their convictions were quashed.
25 YEARS AGO (1997)
INXS singer Michael Hutchence was found dead in a hotel room in Sydney, Australia. His girlfriend Paula Yates insisted it was an accident, not suicide as recorded.
19 YEARS AGO (2003)
England won the Rugby World Cup after beating Australia 20-17 in Sydney thanks to Jonny Wilkinson’s legendary drop goal just 26 seconds from the end.
Birthdays
Black Widow star Scarlett Johansson is 38. She is this year’s second-highest earning actress. Halloween star Jamie Lee Curtis is 64. She’s the daughter of actor Tony Curtis. Avengers actor Mark Ruffalo is 55. He survived a brain tumour. And many happy returns to Mirror readers Christopher Howe, of Newcastle who’s 65 today, and Barry Hamilton, of Ashington, Northumberland, who is 85.
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