FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

JANUARY 7, 1941

AMY JOHNSON, first woman to fly to Australia and America, heroine of flights over the world’s great oceans, drowned in the Thames on Sunday. She was working as a ferry pilot for the Air Transport Auxiliary when she flew off course and got into difficulties. Miss Johnson (right) is the first of the women pilots of the ATA to be lost while on duty.

JANUARY 7, 1963

SAM BULLOUGH, president of the Yorkshire National Union of Mineworkers, which has 114,000 members, plans to boycott pubs in pit areas which have oil-fired central heating and wants miners to join him.