On this day

66 YEARS AGO (1956)

Our front page told how Anthony Eden’s Government had decided to withdraw British forces from Suez after concluding the crisis could not be resolved while troops remained on Egyptian soil.

40 YEARS AGO (1982)

A letter bomb sent to Number 10 by militant animal rights campaigners slightly injured one of PM Margaret Thatcher’s aides who had intercepted it.

17 YEARS AGO (2005)

John Sentamu became the 97th Archbishop of York and the first black Archbishop in the Church of England. Born in Uganda, he fled to the UK to escape Idi Amin.