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Thursday, September 3, 1998
- U.S. President Bill Clinton is scheduled to begin a trip to Ireland and Northern Ireland.
- U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is scheduled to hold talks with leaders of Austria, which holds the European Union presidency, in Vienna.
- Ford Motor Co. is scheduled to unveil its 1999 Mustang with members of the Mustang Club of America in Nashville, Tennessee.
- On Friday, September 4, the start of the Million Youth Movement begins in Atlanta.
- On Saturday, September 5, a Million Youth March is planned in New York.
- On Sunday, September 6, prayers are scheduled to be said for Princess Diana at Westminster Abbey, where her funeral was held one year ago today.
- On Monday, September 7, the United States celebrates Labor Day.
- On Tuesday, September 8, gubernatorial primaries are scheduled to be held in Arizona, New Hampshire, Vermont and Wisconsin.
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Hundreds of people have been lining up the past few days to get tickets for a huge van Gogh exhibit coming to the National Gallery in Washington. To find out more about this prolific painter, click here.
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- Today is Independence Day in Qatar.
- Actress Helen Wagner ("As the World Turns") is 80.
- "Beetle Bailey" cartoonist Mort Walker is 75.
- Actress Anne Jackson ("The Shining") is 72.
- Time magazine contributing editor Hugh Sidey is 71.
- Rock singer-musician Al Jardine (The Beach Boys) is 56.
- Rock musician Donald Brewer (Grand Funk Railroad) is 50.
- Rock guitarist Steve Jones (The Sex Pistols) is 43.
- Actor Charlie Sheen ("Major League II") is 33.
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- In 1189, England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) was crowned in Westminster.
- In 1783, the Treaty of Paris between the United States and Great Britain officially ended the Revolutionary War.
- In 1939, Britain and France declared war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland.
- In 1943, the British Eighth Army invaded Italy during World War II, the same day Italy signed a secret armistice with the allies.
- In 1967, Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam under a new constitution.
- In 1976, the unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking II landed on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet's surface.
- In 1978, Pope John Paul I was installed as the 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
- In 1979, Hurricane David struck along the central Florida coast, leaving several people dead and millions of dollars in damage.
- In 1997, Arizona Gov. Fife Symington was convicted of lying to get millions in loans to shore up his collapsing real estate empire.
- In 1997, the U.S. Senate voted to ban most federal financing for abortions provided by the managed-care industry.
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