On this day

43 YEARS AGO (1975)

Award-winning journalist John Pilger told how the Vietnam war was in its “death throes” as the last US civilians were evacuated from Saigon prior to the North Vietnamese take over.

25 YEARS AGO (1993)

Tennis star Monica Seles was the victim of an on-court stabbing by a man obsessed with her biggest rival, Steffi Graf.

66 YEARS AGO (1952)

Anne Frank’s diary was published in English for the first time under the title The Diary of a Young Girl.