Happened today
- 1812 - Napoleon Bonaparte begins the invasion of Russia.
- 1918 - During the First World War, the first air raid by an American unit took place on the Western front, in France.
- 1964 - South Africa condemns Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment.
- 1987 - US President Ronald Reagan publicly invited Michail Gorbachev to break down the Berlin Wall.
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Today's quote
For someone like me, it is a very strange habit to write in a diary. Not only that I have never written before, but it strikes me that later neither I, nor anyone else, will care for the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.
~Anne Frank
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