The Saturday Evening Post was first published on this day in 1821 | |
Hans Christian Andersen (The Ugly Duckling, The Little Mermaid, The Princess and the Pea, The Emperor's New Clothes, Thumbelina) died on this day in 1875 | |
The first African-American US Poet Laureate, Robert Hayden (Heart Shape in the Dust, A Ballad of Remembrance) was born on this day in 1913 | |
Jewish diarist Anne Frank (The Diary of a Young Girl) was arrested along with her harbourers by the SS on this day in 1944. Frank would eventually perish at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. |
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