On this day

50 YEARS AGO

In a 3am newsflash, we reported the assassination of US civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.

63 YEARS AGO (1955)

Sir Winston Churchill quit as PM due to ill health, aged 80. He was slowing down mentally and physically, and had a sleep disorder.

32 YEARS AGO (1986)

A Berlin disco popular with US soldiers was bombed, killing three and injuring 230. Retaliatory US air strikes on Libya killed at least 15.