1997:Diana, Princess of Wales, is killed along with her companion, Harrods department store heir Dodi Fayed, and driver Henri Paul in an automobile crash in Paris. Paul was driving while intoxicated and speeding through a tunnel in an attempt to shake off paparazzi tailing Diana, affectionately known as the "People's Princess," even after her divorce from Prince Charles.
1888: The infamous serial killer known as Jack the Ripper claims his first victim, a 42-year-old prostitute named Mary Ann Nichols, in the Whitechapel neighborhood of London's East End. Jack the Ripper was never caught or identified, yet he grotesquely murdered at least four women over the next few months.
1909: German immunologist Paul Ehrlich and Japanese bacteriologist Sahachiro Hata treat syphilis-infected rabbits with Salvarsan, a forerunner of today's chemotherapy agents.
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