TODAY: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2017

On this day 45 YEARS AGO (1972)

Our front page carried a letter from Labour’s Roy Jenkins to PM Ted Heath, protesting America’s renewed bombing campaign in Vietnam.

28 YEARS AGO (1989)

Writer Vaclav Havel was elected first President of the post-communist Czech state by a unanimous vote of the Federal Assembly.

17 YEARS AGO (2000)

Arctic conditions caused disruption to road, rail and air travel throughout the UK, in the most widespread snowfall for a decade.