史上今日：September 6
Diana's brother, two sons and former husband watch the hearse arrive1997: Diana's funeral watched by millions
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Britain and the world have said farewell to Diana, Princess of Wales, at
the end of an unprecedented week of mourning.
A four mile procession brought her coffin to Westminster Abbey, where
politicians and celebrities joined the Royal Family in a subdued
congregation.
Over a million people lined the route of the funeral cortege to the abbey
and along her final journey to the Spencer family home in Northamptonshire.
The day began at 0908 BST, when the coffin left Kensington Palace on a gun
carriage.
Some of the crowd wept, some applauded quietly, but most watched in
silence.
On top of the coffin was a poignant reminder that this woman loved by
millions was also a mother - a card to "Mummy" from one of her sons.
The two princes, William and Harry, joined their father, grandfather and
the princess' brother walking behind the coffin.
Other members of the Royal Family watched the funeral cortege pass from the
gates of Buckingham Palace.
The union jack on top of the palace was lowered to half mast for the first
time ever.
Both Diana's sisters read tributes to her at the funeral service and Elton
John played his re-worked version of Candle in the Wind.
Her brother, Lord Spencer, made a funeral address in which he described as
Diana the "very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty".
He used the speech to blame the media for her death, calling her the "most
hunted person of the modern age".
The grieving earl also pledged to protect William and Harry and prevent
them suffering a similar fate. The sometimes controversial oration was greeted
with spontaneous applause.
A very public day of mourning ended with a private ceremony when Diana was
finally buried on an island in the heart of her family estate at Althorp.
The kidnappers blew up the helicopter with the hostages inside
1972: Olympic hostages killed in gun battle
Artificially 1969: FilmTheTheAA All nine of the Israeli athletes kidnapped
on Tuesday from the Olympic Village in Munich have been killed in a gun battle
at a nearby airport.
A policeman also died in the shooting at the Furstenfeldbruck military
airbase, along with four of the guerrillas from the Palestinian group Black
September.
Witnesses at the airport said the shooting began when police snipers opened
fire on the extremists.
A spokesman for the Olympic Games said the kidnappers had blown up a
helicopter with the hostages inside and then opened fire on the wreckage with
automatic weapons.
It is believed that the remaining four militants have been captured by West
German police.
The guerrillas had previously threatened to kill all the hostages if 200
Palestinian prisoners held in Israel were not released.
News of the tragedy was confirmed at 0310 BST, contradicting an earlier
announcement by a Munich police officer that all the hostages had been released
and four of the kidnappers captured.
The bloody end to the kidnapping followed a day of tense negotiations with
the Palestinians.
They had occupied the Israelis' quarters at 0600 BST yesterday, killing two
athletes and taking nine hostages.
The West German government had offered to pay any price for the release of
the athletes, but was told by the guerrillas' chief he cared for "neither money
nor lives".
German authorities agreed to demands by the Palestinians to supply them
with an aeroplane, and at 2200 BST provided three helicopters to take them to
the airport.
The gun battle started almost immediately after the helicopters landed at
the airport.
Bavarian Minister of the Interior Bruno Merk confirmed Munich's police
chief had given the order to open fire.
It is not clear whether the Olympic Games will continue, but the Israeli
and Egyptian teams have already withdrawn.
Vocabulary:
congregation: a group of people who collect together(集会)
cortege: a funeral procession(行列)
guerrillas: a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger
force by sabotage and harassment(游击队)
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