Unix Timestamp: 873331200
Thursday, September 4. 1997, 12:00:00 AM UTC

The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, takes place at Westminster Abbey, watched by over 2 billion people worldwide.

The International Olympic Committee picks Athens, Greece to be the host city for the 2004 Summer Olympics.

In Lorain, Ohio, the last Ford Thunderbird for 3 years rolls off the assembly line.

Mother Teresa, Albanian missionary and humanitarian, dies (b. 1910)

A Jean Michel JarreOxygene in Moscow concert, celebrating the city's 850th anniversary, draws 3.5 million people.

Over 87 are killed in the Beni-Messous massacre in Algeria.