Wednesday, August 04, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

AUGUST 4
1944:Anne Frank, her sister Margot, their parents, and four others are arrested by the Nazi Gestapo in Amsterdam, after the secret warehouse annex they had lived in for two years is discovered.

1693: Mmm, bubbly! According to popular legend, champagne is invented by Benedictine monk Dom Perignon.

1964: The bodies of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, slain by the Ku Klux Klan for their efforts on behalf of the Congress of Racial Equality, are uncovered in an earthen dam in Mississippi.

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