1983
Flag Day commemorates the adoption of the U.S. Flag by the Second Continental Congress on June 14, 1777. Philadelphia observed the first Flag Day in 1893.
Annelies "Anne" Marie Frank (12 June 1929 – early March 1945)
Anne Frank was one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the
Holocaust. Her diary, which was given to her on her 13th birthday,
chronicles her life from 12 June 1942 until her last entry 1 August
1944. It has been the basis for several plays and films.
Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, both died of typhus in Bergen-
Belsen concentration camp in March of 1945.
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The diary on display at the Westerbork Remembrance Centre in Hooghalen, northeast Netherlands.
George Bush as a Naval Aviation Cadet, Chapel
Hill, North Carolina.
Official portrait of George Herbert Walker Bush, President of the
United States.
George H .W. Bush served as the 41st President of the United States
(1989–93). He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the
United States (1981–89), a congressman, an ambassador, and Director
of Central Intelligence.
George Bush, Sr. (right) proudly displays the officer’s bar of 2nd Lt. George
W. Bush From the Texas Air National Guard during a special swearing in
ceremony around 1968.
U.S. Senator Huey Long of Louisiana made what would become his longest
and most dramatic filibuster on Senate record. The speech took 15 hours
and 30 minutes with a total of 150,000 words. Long’s efforts only delayed
the inevitable passage of the bill he was trying to prevent.. When Long
was forced to yield the floor to use the restroom, the Senate voted on,
and passed the resolution. He was later assassinated on September
8 of that same year.