On this day
20 YEARS AGO (1997)
Our front page picture showed a group of stunned survivors of the Southall rail crash which killed seven people and injured more than 150 after a train failed to stop at a red signal.
33 YEARS AGO (1984)
Militant Palestinian group Islamic Jihad launched a suicide car bomb attack on the US Embassy in East Beirut, killing 24 people.
44 YEARS AGO (1973)
Tennis star Billie Jean King, 29, beat Bobby Riggs, 55, in three sets in the so-called Battle of the Sexes match at Houston Astrodome in Texas.