TODAY: SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 2017
ON THIS DAY 32 YEARS AGO (1985)
Our front page reported the bomb which ripped apart an Air India jet over the Atlantic, with 329 dead, was meant to explode at Heathrow. Sikh extremists claimed it but no one was convicted. Suspected ringleader Talwinder Singh Parmar was killed by police in India in 1992.
43 YEARS AGO (1974)
Harold Wilson’s Labour government admitted carrying out nuclear tests in the Nevada desert in the USA, causing a rift with the party’s left-wing Tribune group which supported nuclear disarmament.
36 YEARS AGO (1981)
The Humber Bridge opened to traffic, connecting Humberside with Lincolnshire and shortening the distance between Hull and Grimsby by 50 miles. At 2,220 metres, it remained the longest single-span bridge in the world for 17 years.