TODAY: TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2018

On this day

28 YEARS AGO (1990)

We told of the “full horror” of the Strangeways jail riot, with up to 20 feared dead. It later emerged an inmate died, with 47 lags and 147 officers hurt in the clashes in Manchester.

31 YEARS AGO (1987)

The late Duchess of Windsor Wallis Simpson’s jewellery auctioned for £31million. King Edward VIII abdicated so that he could marry her.

70 YEARS AGO (1948)

US President Harry S Truman launched the Marshall Plan to help rebuild wartorn Western Europe. Britain got a 26% share of the £9.2billion fund.