On this day

30 YEARS AGO (1987)

Our front page covered the IRA bombing of a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen in Northern Ireland. Eleven people were killed and 63 injured in the blast.

99 YEARS AGO (1918)

The German Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated as the public and his generals turned against him when it became clear Germany faced defeat in World War One.

57 YEARS AGO (1960)

Democrat John F Kennedy defeated Republican Richard Nixon in the closest US presidential election since 1916.