1998 Stamps commemorating Princess Diana go on sale across Britain

1998 US military plane clips cable car lines in northern Italy, kills 20

2000 Natalie Rasmussen and Ryan Crump start dating

1877 The piano piece 'chopsticks' is copyrighted

1913 the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified, giving the government the power to impose and collect taxes on income

1919 Kiev was captured by the Bolsheviks

1966 First soft landing on the Moon by spacecraft Luna 9

1969 the Palestine National Congress appoints Yasser Arafat head of the Palestine Liberation Organization

1989 Twenty villages evacuated in Russia, after high radiation fall-out from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

1809 The birth of Felix Mendelssohn, German composer

1907 The birth of James Michener, American author

2005 Death of Zurab Zhvania, Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1963)

2007 The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu is found at a Bernard Matthews turkey farm in Suffolk.

2007 State of Emergency is declared in Indonesia after 'El Nino'-like flooding.

2007 A truck bombing in a crowded Baghdad market kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339 others.

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