On this day…

1192 – Sultan Saladin and King Richard the Lionheart of England sign treaty over Jerusalem, at end of the Third Crusade

1792 – September Massacres of the French Revolution: In Paris rampaging mobs slaughter 3 Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.

1944 – Holocaust diarist Anne Frank sent to Auschwitz concentration camp

1945 – Japanese leaders aboard the U.S. battleship Missouri signed an unconditional surrender, ending World War Two.

1945 – The Democratic Republic of Vietnam was proclaimed with Ho Chi Minh as president.

1969 – The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York.

1996 – Muslim rebels and the Philippine government signed a pact ending 24 years of conflict in which 125,000 people died.

1998 – A Swissair plane crashed into the sea off Nova Scotia, Canada; 229 people were killed.

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