On this day

49 YEARS AGO (1969)

Our front page recorded Concorde’s 28-minute maiden flight from Toulouse airport. Test pilot Andre Turcat used just a “fraction” of its power.

100 YEARS AGO (1918)

Russia’s new Bolshevik government signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk to end the country’s First World War involvement.

44 YEARS AGO (1974)

A Turkish Airlines passenger jet from Ankara to London via Paris, crashed near the French capital killing 346.