On this day

36 YEARS AGO (1982)

We reported that Britain’s jobless total had crashed through the three million barrier for the first time since the 1930s under Tory Premier Margaret Thatcher.

73 YEARS AGO (1945)

The Russian Red Army liberated Hitler’s most notorious concentration camp at Auschwitz in Nazicontrolled Poland.

51 YEARS AGO (1967)

Three US astronauts died when a fire caused by an electrical fault engulfed the cabin of Apollo 1 on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy, Florida.