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| September 5 |
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| The Philippines opposition leader, Benigno Aquino, has been assassinated just minutes after returning home from exile. |
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| September 4 |
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| The first pictures of the wreck of the Titanic have been released 73 years after the liner sank with the loss of 1,500 lives. |
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| September 3 |
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| Britain and France are at war with Germany following the invasion of Poland two days ago. |
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| September 2 |
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| British fashion designers have revealed the collection they plan to send to Venice later this week as part of the city's Biennale arts festival. |
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| September 1 |
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| The Philippines opposition leader, Benigno Aquino, has been assassinated just minutes after returning home from exile. |
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| August 31 |
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| Diana, Princess of Wales, has died after a car crash in Paris. |
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| August 30 |
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| Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic is to be charged with genocide - the most serious of all war crimes. |
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| August 29 |
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| Britain's oldest twins have today both received telegrams from the Queen. |
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| August 28 |
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| The fight for racial equality in the United States moved a step closer to victory today as Martin Luther King spoke of his dream for freedom in an address to thousands of Americans. |
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| August 27 |
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| The Queen's cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten, has been killed by a bomb blast on his boat in Ireland. |
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| August 26 |
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| A man has been given the world's first battery-operated heart in a pioneering operation in Britain. |
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| August 25 |
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| The unmanned Voyager 2 spacecraft has sent back the first close-up pictures of Neptune and its satellite planets. |
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| August 24 |
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| Police in Los Angeles are investigating allegations of child abuse made against singer Michael Jackson. |
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| August 23 |
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| Police have launched a murder hunt after a man was found shot dead and his companion seriously wounded in a lay-by in Bedfordshire. |
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| August 22 |
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| The late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping was one of the greatest men of the 20th century. |
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| August 21 |
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| The Philippines opposition leader, Benigno Aquino, has been assassinated just minutes after returning home from exile. |
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| August 20 |
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| Intimate photographs of the Duchess of York and a Texan businessman, John Bryan, have been published in a tabloid newspaper. |
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| August 19 |
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| Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev has been overthrown after a coup by Communist hardliners. |
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| August 18 |
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| Manchester United Football Club has been sold for ￡20m in the biggest takeover deal in the history of British football. |
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| August 17 |
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| Three Americans have made the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by hot air balloon. |
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| August 16 |
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| Elvis Presley, whose singing and style revolutionized popular music in the 1950s, has died. |
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