Recalling Diana's death

• On this day, August 31, 1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and their driver Henri Paul died in a car crash in central Paris.

And on this date in 1939 German troops dressed in Polish uniforms attacked the radio station at Gleiwitz, giving the German government an excuse to attack Poland the next day. The first day of World War II, during which approximately 50 million people lost their lives, of whom over 20 million were citizens of the Soviet Union.