This Week in History: 31 August – 06 September

August 29, 2008

This Week in History

31 August 1997 – Lady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, is killed in a car accident in Paris

1 September 1939 – Germany invades Poland, starting World War 2

2 September 1879 – Britain and the Zulu Nation sign a peace treaty

3 September 1905 – Johannes Nkosi, martyr for the Communist Party of South Africa, is born

4 September 2002 – Secretary of State Colin Powell was heckled by activists on the closing day of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in, South Africa

5 September 1978 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Carter begin a Middle East peace conference at Camp David, Maryland

6 September 1977 – The last passenger boat of the Union Castle line, the Windsor Castle, leaves Table Bay

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