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  1. Sep 7

    The front page in 2001. The Justice Department announces that it no longer seeks to break up Microsoft, and will instead seek a lesser antitrust penalty.

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  2. Sep 7

    The front page in 1997. The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and 2​1⁄2 billion watched around the world on television.

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  3. Sep 7

    On the front page in 1995. Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years.

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    The front page in 1991. The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

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    The front page in 1986. In Istanbul, two terrorists kill 22 and wound six congregants inside the Neve Shalom Synagogue during Shabbat services.

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    The front page in 1966. Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death in Cape Town during a parliamentary meeting.

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    The front page in 1965. India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which results in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.

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    The front page in 1943. Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.

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    The front page in 1901. President McKinley is shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

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    On the front page in 1877. Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier, after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.

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  11. Sep 6

    The front page in 1986. Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.

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    The front page in 1975. A member of the Manson family attempts to assassinate President Ford.

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    The front page in 1972. A Palestinian terrorist group attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the attack and nine are murdered the following day.

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    The front page in 1957. The governor of Arkansas calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Little Rock Central High School.

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  15. Sep 5

    The front page on this day in 1941. The USS Greer becomes the first United States Navy ship fired upon by a German submarine in the war, even though the United States is a neutral power. Tension heightens between the nations as a result.

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  16. Sep 4

    The front page in 1925. USS Shenandoah, the United States' first American-built rigid airship, was destroyed in a squall line over Ohio.

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  17. Sep 3

    The front page in 1943. The Italian mainland is invaded by the Allies for the first time. British and Canadian troops are sent across the Messina Strait, from Sicily to the southern tip of Italy.

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  18. Sep 3

    The front page in 1939. Britain and France declare war on Germany.

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    The front page in 1983. Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace, killing all 269 on board, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.

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    The front page in 1945. The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed by Japan and the major warring powers aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

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