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.

The most remarkable thing about Chappaquiddick is that Kennedy was 37 years old at the time. This was not some youthful shenanigans gone wrong. Everything about the story — the drinking, philandering, poor judgment and lies — were the man. It was entirely in character

IT is interesting to note your coverage of Ted Kennedy’s life glosses over Chappaquiddick which quite rightly ended his presidential ambitions and should also have ended his political career in disgrace. It wasn’t just that he caused her death, but there is the manner in which he saved himself and left Mary Joe Kopechne to drown in the car he drove off the bridge.