On this day

31 YRS AGO (1987)

Our front page reported on maniac gunman Michael Ryan’s fatal shooting of 14 people in Hungerford, Berkshire. The death toll eventually hit 16.

78 YRS AGO (1940)

Prime Minister Winston Churchill made his famous Battle of Britain speech: “Never was so much owed by so many to so few”.

40 YRS AGO (1978)

An air stewardess was killed when gunmen attacked a bus carrying staff of Israeli airline El Al in Central London.