On this day
63 YEARS AGO (1959)
We reported that two Britons were among 68 who died when TWA Flight 891 was struck by lightning and crashed shortly after take-off from Malpensa Airport in Milan, Italy.
59 YEARS AGO (1963)
John F Kennedy was welcomed by a crowd of hundreds as he arrived at his ancestral home in County Wexford, Ireland, five months before his assassination.
36 YEARS AGO (1986)
The International Court of Justice found the US violated international law by supplying arms to the anti-Communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
Today’s giggle
Why didn’t the skeleton cross the road? Because he had no guts!