TODAY: MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 2018
ON THIS DAY 72 YEARS AGO (1946)
We revealed the heroes in the New Year Victory honours. Lord Portal and Winston Churchill were awarded the Order of Merit, while Sir Arthur “Bomber” Harris was promoted to Marshal of the Air Force.
40 YEARS AGO (1978)
South African editor and campaigner Donald Woods arrived in London after fleeing the apartheid regime. The 1987 film Cry Freedom was based on his story.
18 YEARS AGO (2000)
Fears that the Millennium or Y2K bug would cause worldwide computer meltdown proved unfounded as the tech crisis failed to materialise. Experts had warned that the world faced the “electronic equivalent of El Nino” but, in the event, few technical glitches were reported.