On this day

49 YEARS AGO (1968)

Our front page revealed the wedding of Jackie Kennedy to shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis in a candlelit ceremony on the Greek island of Scorpios.

73 YEARS AGO (1944)

The Japanese launched the first kamikaze attack against an Allied ship when a dive bomber hit the cruiser HMAS Australia, killing 30 crew.

51 YEARS AGO (1966)

The collapse of a coal slag heap on to a school in the village of Aberfan, South Wales, killed 144 people, including 116 children.