1886: Charleston earthquake 1980: Solidarity movement in Poland 1992: Ruby Ridge standoff ends
A mourner places more flowers on the pile outside the gates of Buckingham Palace in London, Sunday Aug. 31, 1997, following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. The Princess, along with her companion Dodi Fayed, and a driver, were killed in a car crash in Paris, earlier in the day.
In 1980, Poland’s Solidarity labor movement was born with an agreement signed in Gdansk that ended a 17-day-old strike. In 1994, Russia officially ended its military presence in the former East Germany and the Baltics after half a century.
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