This day in history

AUGUST 31

1907 - The Anglo-Russian Convention was signed in St Petersburg, settling differences between Britain and Russia over Persia, Afghanistan and Tibet.

1990 - East and West Germany signed a treaty to harmonise their legal and political systems after merging on Oct 3.

2005 - About 1,000 Iraqi Shias died in a stampede over a Tigris River bridge in Baghdad, panicked by rumours that a suicide bomber was about to blow himself up.