We take a trip down memory lane and check out what happened on this day in years gone by by looking back at some Irish Examiner front pages and highlighting other events which went down in history across the world.

Kya deLongchamps celebrates the heroic and unlikely life of Thomas Francis Meagher (1823-1867) nearly 150 years since his mysterious disappearance.

Police searching a farm for a gunman who killed four people in central Austria say they have found the charred body of what they believe was the suspect.

The Austrian army evacuated 500 guests – half of them schoolchildren on a ski course – from an alpine village isolated by avalanches today.

A 13-year-old boy who discovered a grenade in an Austrian river has been told it is over 350 years old and still in perfect condition.