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Acting on tip from a Dutch informer, the Nazi Gestapo captures 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family in a sealed-off area of an Amsterdam warehouse. The Franks had taken shelter there in 1942 out of fear of deportation to a Nazi concentration camp.
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FranknStein (20-09-18), oldfool (22-09-18)
September 21,1937-First publication of J.R.R.Tolkien's "The Hobbit" ,by George Allen and Unwin in London.
September 21,1942-First flight of the Boeing B29 Superfortress bomber.(Both atomic bombs dropped on Japan were carried by this model of aircraft).
September 21,1961-First flight of Boeing Chinook heavy helicopter.
September 21,1964-Malta achieves independence from Britain.
September 21,1993-Yeltsin attempts to suspend Russian Parliament, precipitating the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.
September 22.
1692: Last people hanged for witchcraft in what is now the US,during Salem witch trials.
1735:Robert Walpole becomes the first British "Prime Minister" aka First Lord of the Treasury,to live at No.Ten ,Downing Street.
1792:First French Republic formed stripping king of his powers.
1888:First issue of National Geographic Magazine published.
1896:Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather George III as longest reigning British monarch.
1955: ITV goes live.
1980:Iraq invades Iran.
1994:Friends sitcom debuts on NBC.
September 23.
63 BC:Augustus Caesar born.
1215:Kublai Khan born.
1869:"Typhoid Mary" Mallon born in Tyrone.
1889:Nintendo was founded as a playing card
company called Nintendo Koppai.
1909:Phantom of the Opera makes its appearance as a serialisation in a French newspaper.
1930:Ray Charles born.
1932:Kingdom of Saudia Arabia founded.
1939:Sigmund Freud dies.
1942:Manhattan Project begins-it will eventually deliver the atomic bomb.
1949:Bruce Springsteen born.
1957:"That'll be the Day" by Buddy Holly and the Crickets reaches number one in America.
1962:The Jetsons first broadcast on ABC.
1493:Christopher Columbus embarks on his second voyage to the New World.
1529:Beginning of Ottoman siege of Vienna.
1776:First St.Leger race held at Doncaster.
1948:Honda Motor Company if founded.
1953:Rocky Marciano becomes world heavyweight champion.
1957:Camp Nou in Barcelona opens.
1957:"Jailhouse Rock" single released by Elvis Presley.
1960:USS Enterprise,the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier is launched.
1964:"The Munsters starts on TV.
1968:60 minutes begins on CBS.
1976:"Oh! Calcutta" opens in NY.
1976:"Stockholm syndrome" sufferer and newspaper heiress Patty Hearst sentenced.
1988:Canada's Ben Johnson runs drugged assisted 9.79 second 100 metres in Seoul.
1988:Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets world record and wins gold, in the Heptathlon, in Seoul.
1990:East Germany leaves the Warsaw Pact.
2007:"The Big Bang Theory" premieres on CBS.
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September 25.
1066:Battle of Stamford Bridge. Harold Godwinson defeats a Norwegian army led by his brother and Harald Hardrada.
1492:Crewman on Columbus's ship "The Pinta" sights land.
1514:Spaniard Vasco Nunez de Balboa crosses the Isthmus of Panama and becomes the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
1780:American general Benedict Arnold defects to the British side.
1890:Head of the Mormons issues a manifesto renouncing the practice of polygamy.
1915:Battle of Loos begins.
1939:Luftwaffe firebombs Warsaw.
1944:Actor Michael Douglas born.
1951:Actor Mark Hamill born.
1952:Actor Christopher Reeve born.
1957:Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga in Australia.
1961:Actress Heather Locklear born.
1962:Sonny Liston wins world heavyweight title.
1968:Actor Will Smith born.
1969:Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones born.
1975:Singer Jackie Wilson collapses on stage aged 41 ,after suffering a heart attack leading to brain damage.Spends the remaining 9 years of his life in hospitals.
1976:Paul Hewson,David Evans,his brother Dik and Adam Clayton respond to a note posted on a bulletin board, in Mount Temple school,by Larry Mullen regarding the formation of a band.
1979:"Evita" opens on Broadway.
1988:Florence Griffith Joyner wins gold in Seoul ,in the 100m,in an Olympic record time.
1996:Last of the Magdalen asylums shuts in Ireland.
2002:Vitim Event in Siberia.
2015:Caitlyn Jenner officially changes her name from Bruce and her gender to female.
2017:Uber's London licence not renewed.
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Happy birthday Loujain Al Hathloul.
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Happy ten year anniversary Steve.
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Barney Rubble (20-02-21), SteveB (20-02-21), westcorklad (20-02-21)
Thanks! Had forgotten all about it!Originally Posted by Pan808
Happy ten year anniversary Steve.
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Happy anniversary Steve. You'll have seen a lot of changes in 10 years here.
Are we there yet ?
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