The Scotsman

NOW & THEN

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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.

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