25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, July 29, 1971

MASSIVE disruption through strikes led to the loss of 13,500,000 working days in the first six months of this year. This is 2,600,000 more lost working days than in the whole of last year, which itself provided the worst strike record for 44 years. The Government is pinning its hopes on the new Industrial Relations Bill strike curb clauses to cut down the mushrooming number of walk-outs losing industry millions of pounds a month.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, July 30, 1946

PARATROOPS from the Sixth Airborne Division, the "Red Devils", moved into Tel Aviv, the world's largest purely Jewish city, early today to start tracking down those responsible for the deaths of more than 100 persons when the Palestine Government headquarters in Jerusalem were blown up last Monday. An official order clamping down a curfew on the city, the strictest ever to be enforced in Palestine, said that any violator of it was "liable to be shot on sight."

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, July 29, 1871

YESTERDAY the storm which passed over this town visited the neighbourhood of Chequerbent, and, by its violence, created considerable alarm. About half-past two o'clock, the fine Maypole, erected by the liberality of Wm. Ford Hulton, of Hulton Park, was struck by the electric fluid a few feet below the vane, making a hole through it as if pierced by a bullet. It then splintered the pole four or five feet downwards until it came to a stay wire, when it glanced off, and, running along the road, entered the stable of the Chequerbent Arms, in which were a man and a horse, who, though much frightened, escaped unharmed.

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