1944: Nazi police in Amsterdam, Holland, acting on an informant's tip, discover Anne Frank and family in hiding. The eight lived in a single secret room for 728 days. Sent to the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they were all killed, except for her father. He returned to the house after the war and found his daughter's diary.
1964: Bodies of civil rights volunteers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney found near Philadelphia, Mississippi.
1988: Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WWII.
1995: Pres. Clinton orders an end to the Cold War-era prohibition against granting security clearances to gays.
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What about Helen Keller? What did she do today in history?
screw you
I am oping that this posting will be your final step in remembering which "woman in history" is which!
(patty)
1937: Dustin Hoffman is born.
Actually, I was wrong on that. He was born on Aug. 8. Whoops!
We'll have to settle for:
1937: Billy Bob Thornton is born.
Not nearly as good.
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