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Twenty years ago, the world mourned the sudden death of Princess Diana, a humanitarian, the one-time wife of the future king of Britain and mother of another.

In the early hours of Aug. 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew made landfall in Florida, packing winds up to 175 mph that would destroy tens of thousands of homes.

One-hundred years ago, on May 18, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Selective Service Act, the nation's first conscription law since the Civil War.

Some 3,000 people died as a result of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. On the 15th anniversary, many are taking a retrospective look at the events of the day.

Long-term projects to tame the continuing threat of radiation are underway at the site of the ruined Chernobyl nuclear reactor 30 years after disaster.

The 100th anniversary of the first U.S. military air-combat operation comes Saturday, which was deployed in 1916 to hunt down a fugitive Mexican revolutionary.

Fifty years ago today, John Lennon said the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, and he wasn't bothered when it touched a nerve in the U.S. five months later.

On Jan. 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members, including teacher Christa McAuliffe.

No space flight fatalities were more dramatic than the seven that happened on Jan. 28, 1986, when the Space Shuttle Challenger broke up in mid-flight.

Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of Israel and "warrior of peace," died by an assassin's bullet 20 years ago. His legacy, in which peace between Israelis and Palestinians was allegedly imminent and then lost, is a pliable one.