From our archives:

85 years ago

The British oil tanker, British Splendour, which arrived from Abadan flying the yellow flag, had been placed in quarantine, due to a case of smallpox on board.

According to Reuters reporting from Gibraltar, the crew had to be urgently vaccinated with some taken to the isolation hospital.

In Berlin President Von Hindenburg had accepted the resignation of the Von Papen Cabinet, at the same time requesting it carry on provisionally until a new one had been formed.

According to the Nazi Press, Herr Hitler himself insisted upon the Chancellorship, as he did in July of that year, and according to all indications it would again be refused, so the position would be as it was before.

The death toll in the Malton typhoid epidemic had now been increased to 13 by the death of a six-year-old Olga Humphreys.

50 years ago

York actress Judi Dench had won the best actress of 1967 award, for her role in Talking to a Stranger at the Dorchester Hotel, London. Daughter of Mrs Olive Dench, of 21 Askham Grove, York, and the late Dr R A Dench, Judi played the part of a small angel in the first York Mystery Plays in 1951, and was the Virgin Mary in its 1954 production.

The big question mark over sterling grew even larger as the financial crisis entered the weekend with the £ under continued pressure and the possibility of a huge international loan.

The Prime Minister however played it cool, by taking to the golf course near his official country home in Buckinghamshire.

And the Yorkshire Division of the Association of Assistant Librarians held its 60th anniversary meeting at the Knavesmire Hotel, York.

20 years ago

More than 40 firefighters had battled overnight with flames leaping 40ft during a fire at Kingsway Junior School in Clifton.

The western wing containing four classrooms had been destroyed causing more than £100,00 damage and a spokesman for the police had confirmed that they had reason to believe the fire was started deliberately.

Milkmen in Goole were celebrating new findings that backed up the long-held belief that drinking milk is an effective way of strengthening bones.

According to the British Medical Journal a study involving a group of 82, 12-year-old girls who drank extra milk for 18 months, had gained an average of 1.3 ounces more of bone mineral.