On this day

52 YEARS AGO (1966)

We reported a disaster that shocked the nation when a slag heap engulfed a school in the Welsh mining village of Aberfan. Some 144 people died, 116 of them children. 72 YEARS AGO (1946)

In Operation Osoaviakhim, secret police and the Red Army forcibly recruited more than 2,200 German specialists and their families, taking them to work in Russia.

44 YEARS AGO (1974)

A bomb exploded in Brooks Club in Central London injuring three staff and narrowly missing Tory leader Edward Heath, amid IRA violence.