TODAY: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2017

28 YEARS AGO

Scores of people were feared dead after Romanian security forces “ruthlessly crushed” a pro-democracy demo in Timisoara.

45 YEARS AGO

Ugandan dictator Idi Amin issued an ultimatum to British workers to accept a 40% pay cut or be expelled from the country.

33 YEARS AGO

PM Margaret Thatcher and Chinese communist leader Zhao Ziyang agree Britain would return the island of Hong Kong to China in 1997.