Daily Mail dated Tuesday August 28th 1979
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Louis Mountbatten,
1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, was the Duke of Edinburgh’s uncle and second
cousin once removed to Elizabeth II.
He joined the Royal Navy in 1913 and during a long career
was, at one time or another, Chief of Combined Operations, Supreme Allied
Commander, South East Asia Command, Commander, cruiser squadron, Mediterranean
Fleet, Fourth Sea Lord, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet, First Sea
Lord,Chief of the Defence Staff and Admiral of the Fleet.
He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and the first
Governor-General of the Union of India.
He had a summer retreat in County Sligo, Ireland and was
holidaying there in August 1979. On the 27th he went fishing with
his daughter, her husband and their twin sons and her mother-in-law on his 30’ boat.
The IRA had planted a bomb aboard and detonated it by wireless during the trip.
Louis Mountbatten, one of his grandsons and a crew member were killed. His
daughter’s mother-in-law died later in hospital.
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On the same day a roadside bomb killed 6 British soldiers
who were in a lorry in a convoy passing Narrow Water Castle in Northern Island.
When more soldiers arrived to set up an incident command point in a nearby
gatehouse, a second bomb exploded and killed 12 more soldiers.
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The Italian built car and passenger ferry ‘Winston
Churchill’ was on the twice-weekly Newcastle/Gothenburg run when it ran aground
in Gothenburg Harbour. For once it was a ferry disaster that ended comparatively
happily with only 1 person injured and no fatalities. The ship was in service
on this route until 1995.
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Stansted Airport was originally a WWII RAF base.
In 1966 it became a civilian airport and a passenger terminal opened in 1969.
Plans were drawn up to turn it into a relief for Heathrow and Gatwick but major
expansion didn’t happen until the late 1980’s and early 90’s.
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Very much an album based artist, Judy Tzuke is
still performing.
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Charles M. Schulz produced the Peanuts comic strip from 1950
until 2000 with, according to Wikipedia, 17,897 strips published in 2,600
papers in 75 countries, in 21 languages.
The Peanuts characters, like Charlie Brown, Snoopy,
Schroeder, Linus, Pig-Pen, Lucy van Pelt and Woodstock, have also appeared in 4
feature films, 2 musicals, numerous animated TV shows, video games, books and
memorabilia.
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This is not the Bjorn Borg who was the Swedish backstroke
and freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. It is some
tennis player bloke.
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