1944: Anne Frank captured
The
Nazi Gestapo captures
Anne Frank and her family, who are hiding in Holland. When she was four, Anne Frank’s
German family escaped the Nazi persecution of Jews by moving to Amsterdam. In the summer of 1942, with the German occupation of Holland underway, 12-year-old Anne began a diary relating her everyday experiences and her observations about the increasingly dangerous world around her. Fearing
deportation to a Nazi
concentration camp, the Frank family was forced to take shelter in the annex of a factory run by
Christian friends. Although the Gestapo abducted the family after they were discovered, they failed to capture the young girl’s
diary, a literary testament to the 6 million Jews who were silenced in
the Holocaust. Anne Frank died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp only two months before it was liberated.
2002
In
Britain, the police make a public appeal to find the two missing 10 year old girls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
2000
Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, celebrates her hundredth birthday.1987
In Britain,
Moors Murderer
Ian Brady claims to have killed a further five victims.
1972
A court in Maryland, USA sentences Arthur Bremer to 63 years in prison for attempting to assassinate
Alabama Governor George Wallace. Wallace was left paralysed in his legs as a result of the attack.
1964
In America, the bodies of three
civil rights activists, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, are discovered by the
FBI near Philadelphia, Mississippi.
1964
The Vietnam War: The destroyers USS Maddox and USS C. Turner Joy, operating in the Gulf of Tonkin, are allegedly attacked by North Vietnamese patrol boats. The U.S. responds with force and the incident is subsequently used by the Johnson
administration to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gives Johnson the power to send U.S. forces to fight in
Vietnam. 1957
Juan Fangio wins his last grand prix race and captures the world championship for the fifth consecutive year in the process.1914
The First World War: Britain declares war on
Germany for violating the Treaty of London. U.S. President
Woodrow Wilson proclaims America to be neutral.
1782
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart marries Constanze Weber in
Austria. 1753
In America,
George Washington, a young Virginia planter, becomes a Master Mason, the highest basic rank in the secret fraternity of Freemasonry.
1578
Morocco defeats
Portugal at the Battle of Alcácer Quibir in North Africa.
1265
1901
Black American jazz trumpeter Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong.1900
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon - Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother 1870
Scottish comic singer Sir
Harry Lauder born at Portobello near Edinburgh.
1792
English romantic poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley is born near Horsham, in Sussex.
