TODAY: THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2018

On this day 36 YEARS AGO (1982)

Royal Marines recaptured South Georgia in the Falklands, prompting Argentina to declare the country was now “technically at war” with Britain.

81 YEARS AGO (1937)

The Basque town of Guernica was bombed by the German Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War, at the request of fascist General Franco.

43 YEARS AGO (1975)

Labour held a special conference ahead of the referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Economic Community.