On this day

100 YEARS AGO (1917)

Our front page reported on a daring robbery at the Carlton Hotel in Central London. Thieves were charged with stealing £5,000 worth of jewels.

33 YEARS AGO (1984)

Margaret Thatcher’s Education Secretary Keith Joseph announced GCSE exams would replace O-Levels.

23 YEARS AGO (1994)

US gridiron star OJ Simpson pleaded not guilty to murdering wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman. OJ was controversially acquitted.