NOW & THEN
2 On this day in 1941 the Nazis ordered Jews to wear the Star of David who were joined at the back of the head, were successfully separated during a 22-hour operation involving a team of 70 doctors, in Baltimore, USA.
1988: Eleven-year-old Thomas Gregory swam English Channel.
1991: The USSR was no more as the Congress of People’s Deputies in Moscow scrapped the old power structures built up over 70 years and gave the Soviet republics their independence..
1997: Hundreds of thousands of people lined the route for the Westminster Abbey funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales.
2012: Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination to run for the US presidency.
2015: The first fare-paying passengers travelled on the newly opened Borders Railway line, from Edinburgh to Tweedbank.