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Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat who helped save at least 100,000 Hungarian Jews from death in World War II, born (1912 )

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Helen Thomas, journalist: White House correspondent, born (1920)

1914 - Britain declared war on Germany while the United States proclaimed its neutrality.

Freedom of the Press established (1735)

Planet Neptune discovered (1846)

US Coast Guard established (1790)

Anne Frank, 15, (Diary of Anne Frank) was arrested by Nazis (and later died in a concentration camp). 1944

• Teaching the Holocaust
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US bought the Virgin Islands from Denmark (1916)

US launched 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft (1971)

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Congress voted to pay $20,000 as reparation to each Japanese-American illegally interned during WW II (1988)