TODAY: WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 2018

On this day 44 YEARS AGO (1974)

We reported that President Nixon agreed to hand over the Watergate tapes after being ordered to by the US Supreme Court ahead of the trial of six former aides.

51 YEARS AGO (1965)

Bob Dylan played his first electric gig at the Newport Folk Festival where he was booed for this shift to rock from political songwriting.

26 YEARS AGO (1992)

A spectacular ceremony started the 25th Olympics in Barcelona where a record 169 nations took part, many of them newly independent.