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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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