TODAY: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2018

On this day

50 YEARS AGO (1968)

Mirror man Ellis Plaice’s front page story, Hopeless War, tells how hundreds of US Marines died or were injured in a bloodbath to recapture Hue in Vietnam.

25 YEARS AGO (1993)

Jon Venables and Robert Thompson are charged with the murder of tot James Bulger. They are later jailed and put on licence for life.

56 YEARS AGO (1962)

John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the planet. He travelled at 17,000mph and circled the Earth three times.