[SQL] Left join order

Hello,
i have a 1:n relation between two tables:

clients (id, name)
events (client, state, date)

I want to create a join query to get ALL clients with date and state in order of last event date.
For example, with this data:

client: (1,John)
events: (1,ready, 2009/1/1),(1,broken, 2009/2/2),(1,repaired, 2009/3/3)

I want this:
(1, John, repaired, 2009/3/3)
because this is the last stat, so i need an ordered join by date DESC.... i hope you can understand my trouble :-)

Thank you.