News Analysis
Date: 13 October 1981
By BERNARD GWERTZMAN, Special to the New York Times
Bernard GWERTZMAN
Paul Jonathan Givan (born 12 October 1981) is a Northern Irish unionist politician who served as First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2021 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), he has served as Minister of Education since 3 February 2024. Givan has been a Member of the Legislative Assembly for Lagan Valley since 2010.
Givan became First Minister on 17 June 2021, becoming the youngest person to hold that office. He resigned on 4 February 2022 as part of DUP protests against the Northern Ireland Protocol. From 2016 to 2017, Givan served as the Minister for Communities in the Northern Ireland Executive under First Minister Arlene Foster.
Givan has been associated with socially conservative views and has been described as being on the Paisleyite right wing of the DUP.
Read more...The October 12, 1981 was a Monday under the star sign of ♎. It was the 284 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
If you were born on this day, you are 43 years old. Your last birthday was on the Saturday, October 12, 2024, 360 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, October 12, 2025, in 4 days. You have lived for 16,066 days, or about 385,597 hours, or about 23,135,852 minutes, or about 1,388,151,120 seconds.
Date: 13 October 1981
By BERNARD GWERTZMAN, Special to the New York Times
Bernard GWERTZMAN
Date: 12 October 1981
By R.W. APPLE Jr., Special to the New York Times
R. APPLE
Date: 12 October 1981
By WILLIAM E. FARRELL, Special to the New York Times
William FARRELL