25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 10, 1972

ELVIS Presley, resplendent in a white suit and sequin-studded white cape, appeared for the first time in New York last night before a screaming audience of 20,000. Elvis, now 37, was totally in command during his hour-long appearance at Madison Square Garden, provoking screams with just a flick of the wrist of a sedate gyration. The audience was definitely older than those usually turning up for latter-day rock stars.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 11, 1947

ALTHOUGH the Government is hoping by local campaigns to attract women to industry, the decision against equal pay may have down a certain amount of harm in deciding the married woman to stay at home. An 'Evening News' representative today found that one of the chief reasons why women in Bolton do not wish to return to their work in cotton mills, iron foundries and laundries is the lack of provision in nursery schools.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 11, 1872

SIMULTANEOUS attempts were made about half-past ten o'clock on Monday night to blow up with gunpowder Foley's magnificent memorial statue of the late Earl of Carlisle in Phoenix Park, Dublin, and the bronzed plaster model of the statue of the Prince Consort in Merrion Square. The signal for both acts was given by firing a rocket from the neighbourhood of Mountjoy Square, the highest point of the city, from which the rocket could be easily seen by the perpetrators of both outrages, although it is at a long distance from each place. The affair is a matter of mystery. No arrests have been made up to the present.

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