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.

IN a posthumous memoir, Senator Edward Kennedy writes of fear and remorse surrounding the events on Chappaquiddick Island in 1969 and says he accepted the finding that a lone gunman assassinated his brother President John F Kennedy.

Massachusetts senator Edward Kennedy told of his fear and remorse surrounding the fateful events on Chappaquiddick Island when his car accident left a woman dead.

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