The Six O’Clock News has covered every major event since it was first broadcast in 1931.
8 April 2013: Margaret Thatcher dies
29 April 2011: The Royal Wedding
12 May 2010: Coalition agreed
7 July 2005: London bombings
11 September 2001: Attacks on the United States
2 May 1997: Labour landslide
15 April 1989: Hillsborough disaster
2 April 1982: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands
12 April 1961: The first man in space
6 November 1956: Suez Crisis ceasefire (newsflash)
1 September 1939: Germany invades Poland
