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September 17 |
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New Yorkers have been returning to work six days after the terror attacks which devastated the heart of their city. |
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September 16 |
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At least 177 people have died during a lethal fire in a South African gold mine. |
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September 15 |
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The United Nations has landed up to 50,000 troops behind enemy lines at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea. |
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September 14 |
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Princess Grace of Monaco has died of the injuries she sustained in a car crash near Monte Carlo yesterday. |
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September 13 |
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The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the PLO leader, Yasser Arafat, have shaken hands before cheering crowds on the White House lawn in Washington. |
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September 12 |
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The President of the United States has described the destruction caused in New York and Washington as an act of war against all freedom-loving people. |
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September 11 |
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The United States is in a state of shock after a day of attacks which have left thousands dead and New York's World Trade Center destroyed. |
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September 10 |
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September 10 is the Teachers' Day of People's Republic of China. In the year 1984, Wang Zishen, former president of Beijing Normal University, suggested to establish a festivial day for the Chinese teachers. |
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September 9 |
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Chairman Mao is the founder of the People's Republic of China in 1949 and one of the founders of the Chinese Communist party in 1921. |
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September 8 |
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Italy has signed an unconditional armistice with the Allies, General Dwight D Eisenhower has announced. |
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September 7 |
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The German air force has unleashed a wave of heavy bombing raids on London, killing hundreds of civilians and injuring many more. |
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September 6 |
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Britain and the world have said farewell to Diana, Princess of Wales, at the end of an unprecedented week of mourning. |
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September 5 |
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Mother Teresa, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who devoted her life to helping the sick and the poor, has died at the age of 87. |
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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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Japanese officials have signed the act of unconditional surrender, finally bringing to an end six years of world war. |
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September 1 |
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German forces have invaded Poland and its planes have bombed Polish cities, including the capital, Warsaw. |
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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 BBC has transmitted the first ever live television pictures across the Channel. |
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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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