Today in history - June 12

in history •  5 years ago 

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

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


Died Today

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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



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mi permetto di dire che scrivere in un diario è una eccezionale abitudine perchè sei a nudo con te stessa e ti liberi di paure, drammi che a volte non si ha la forza di confessare neanche a se stessi