On this day

24 YEARS AGO (1993)

We told how a holidaying British couple were shot by two muggers in Florida. Gary Colley died at the scene. Margaret Jagger was saved when a bullet was deflected by her underwired bra.

39 YEARS AGO (1978)

Baader-Meinhof gang member Astrid Proll was arrested in London. She was extradited to Germany and convicted of bank robbery and forging documents.

54 YEARS AGO (1963)

Four young girls died when the Ku Klux Klan planted a bomb at a Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama. It was one of the worst atrocities of the civil rights era.