On this day

57 YEARS AGO (1961)

Our front page told of a “ring of steel” around East Berlin as troops sealed the border with barbed wire to stem the flow of refugees fleeing to the West.

73 YEARS AGO (1945)

Japan accepts surrender terms on the deck of USS Missouri off Tokyo after US atom bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

39 YEARS AGO (1979)

A freak storm hit the Irish Sea during the Fastnet yacht race, killing 18 people. Just 86 of 303 yachts finished the race.