FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

JULY 8, 1949

BERLIN will soon be open to tourists from Britain for the first time in ten years. Tourists will not be allowed to hold British or American occupation currencies and will live on German ration cards. There are, however, comfortable hotels which will accommodate them at reasonable prices.

JULY 8, 1969

BONNIE, the space monkey, was being brought back to Earth tonight after less than nine days in orbit. Tracking stations detected ‘a decline in the monkey’s condition’ early today. Bonnie’s capsule was scheduled to parachute into the Pacific. [He died 12 hours after landing].