On this day

34 YEARS AGO (1984)

Our front page described the murder of PC Yvonne Fletcher, who was shot and killed while on a routine job policing a demonstration at Libya’s embassy in London.

63 YEARS AGO (1955)

Albert Einstein died, aged 76. The physicist, who fled Nazi Germany for the US, reshaped our thinking with his theory of relativity.

23 YEARS AGO (1994)

Ethnic violence in Rwanda’s capital Kigali led to mobs of Hutus with machetes hunting Tutsi refugees. Some 800,000 died.