On this day

23 YEARS AGO (1998)

Our front page revealed the victims of the car bomb in Omagh, Co Tyrone, which killed 28 in the deadliest single attack in Northern Ireland, carried out by splinter group the Real IRA.

34 YEARS AGO (1987)

Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy, committed suicide at 93, in Spandau prison, West Berlin, where he was held since 1946, and for 20 years the only inmate.

4 YEARS AGO (2017)

Fourteen people died and more than 130 were injured when a terrorist drove a van into pedestrians on La Rambla, the busiest tourist area in Barcelona.