On this day

53 YEARS AGO (1965) 5)

Our front page reported how the Tory leadership fight, triggered when Sir Alec Douglas-Home quit, was set to throw the party into “utter confusion”.

75 YEARS AGO (1943) )

Operation Gomorrah, the RAF and USAF’s day and night bombing raids on Hamburg, led to a firestorm that killed 42,600 civilians.

49 YEARS AGO (1969) )

Briton Gerald Brooke, a teacher facing spy charges in the Soviet Union, was freed after four years’ jail in exchange for six agents.