On this day

35 YEARS AGO (1983)

We told how 38 IRA convicts had escaped from Ulster’s maximum security Maze prison in Britain’s biggest mass prison break-out.

58 YEARS AGO (1960)

Democrat John F Kennedy and Republican Richard Nixon clashed in the first televised debate for US presidential candidates.

45 YEARS AGO (1973)

Concorde made its first non-stop flight across the Atlantic in a time of three hours, 32 minutes – doing an average 954mph.