31 August 1997 August 30, 2021 Author: Staff Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris. Famous Words of Inspiration..."It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. For the duel is deadly; and any agnostic who wishes to be anything more than a Nihilist must sympathize with one version of nature or the other." GK Chesterton — Click here for more from GK Chesterton Related posts: 31 August 1997 31 August 1997 31 August 1997 31 August 1997 6 September 1997 28 August 1996 20 August 1997 25 August 1997 29 August 1997 11 June 1972 Categories: History Tags: 1997, 31 August