TODAY: THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2018

On this day

73 YEARS AGO (1945)

We revealed British troops had arrested members of the German High Command and that Karl Doenitz’s short-lived government had been dissolved.

40 YEARS AGO (1978)

Princess Margaret was granted a decree nisi from her husband, Earl Snowdon, after 18 years of marriage.

43 YEARS AGO (1975)

The remaining 80 reporters and photographers left Saigon almost four weeks after the South Vietnamese capital had fallen to the communists in the civil war.