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.
  
  

Born Today

George H. W. Bush (1924)	Anne Frank (1929)

Died Today

Anna Maria Enriques Agnoletti (1944)	Gregory Peck (2003)

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