On this day:
1914: Britain declares war on Germany, a turning point at the beginning of WWI
1944: Anne Frank is captured in the Holocaust
1984: The Republic of Upper Volta is Renamed, Burkina Faso
Born on this day:
1928: Udham Singh, field hockey player, won the Olympic gold 1952, 56, 64, born in Sansarpur
1961: Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate
Gone on this day:
1875: Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author, poet
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