TODAY: WEDNESDAY, JAN 10, 2018

ON THIS DAY

61 YEARS AGO (1957)

Our front page announced the resignation of Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden due to ill health. We revealed the Queen had cut short her holiday to see Sir Anthony, who had left for Chequers “a lonely and sick man”.

33 YEARS AGO (1985)

Daniel Ortega, leader of the Sandinistas, became President of Nicaragua, pledging to continue the country’s move to socialism with links to the Soviet Union.

27 YEARS AGO (1991)

UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar met Saddam Hussein in Baghdad in a last-ditch attempt to avoid war in the Gulf. A UN Security Council resolution authorised the use of force against Iraq if Saddam failed to withdraw his troops from Kuwait within five days.