Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family and four friends in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during World War II. After two years in hiding, the group was betrayed and they were transported to concentration camps, where all but Anne's father Otto died. He returned to Amsterdam to find that Anne's diary had been saved. Convinced that the diary was a unique record, he took action to have it published. The diary was given to Anne for her thirteenth birthday and chronicles the events of her life from June 12, 1942 until its final entry of August 4, 1944. It was eventually translated from its original Dutch into many languages and became one of the world's most widely read books. Described as the work of a mature and insightful mind, it provides an intimate examination of daily life under Nazi occupation; through her writing, Anne Frank has become one of the most renowned and discussed of the Holocaust victims.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
161: Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus succeeded Antoninus Pius to become co-Emperors of the Roman Empire. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius)
1862: American Civil War: Union forces won the Battle of Pea Ridge and cemented their control in Missouri. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pea_Ridge)
1936: Germany re-occupied the demilitarized Rhineland, violating the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhineland)
1950: The Soviet Union issued a statement denying that German nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs had served as a Soviet spy. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs)
1965: American Civil Rights Movement: Civil rights demonstrators marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama were brutally attacked by police on Bloody Sunday. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches)
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"Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design." -- John Herschel (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Herschel)