Today in history

1969: Martin Luther King's killer gets life

James Earl Ray is jailed for 99 years by a court in Memphis, Tennessee, after admitting the murder of the American civil rights leader.



1988: Avalanche hits royal ski party

The Prince of Wales narrowly avoids death on the ski slopes of Switzerland in an avalanche which kills one of his closest friends.



1990: Observer 'spy' sentenced to die

A court in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, imposes the death sentence on The Observer journalist Farzad Bazoft.



1973: British officials shot dead in Bermuda

The British governor and his assistant have been assassinated in Bermuda, a British-dependent territory in the North Atlantic.



1956: Riots erupt in Cyprus over Archbishop

Greek Cypriots demonstrate and strike after Britain arrests and deports Archbishop Makarios.



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