On this day

33 YEARS AGO (1985)

Our front page announced new Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev – who succeeded Konstantin Chernenko – had offered a “friendly hand” to the West.

34 YEARS AGO (1984)

Half of Britain’s 187,000 miners walked out in protest against the threat of 20 pits being shut with 20,000 job losses.

49 YEARS AGO (1969)

Beatle Paul Mccartney wed US photographer Linda Eastman at Marylebone Register Office, London. She died from cancer in 1998.