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Biography Of The Day
Anne Frank, oil over a photograph.
Anne Frank, oil over a photograph.
The Granger Collection, New York		Anne Frank
Anne Frank—a young Jewish girl whose diary of her family's two years in hiding during the German occupation of The Netherlands became a classic of war literature—was born this day in 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

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On This Day In History
Boris Yeltsin taking the oath of office for the presidency of Russia, 1991.
Boris Yeltsin taking the oath of office for the presidency of Russia, 1991.
Vitaly Armand—AFP/Getty Images		1991: Election of Boris Yeltsin
On this day in 1991, Boris Yeltsin was easily elected president of Russia (then part of the Soviet Union) in the republic's first direct, popular elections, and he was president of independent Russia until the eve of 2000.

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1991:Earth's atmosphere showing the Mount Pinatubo dust layer, photographed from the U.S. space shuttle …A series of major explosions began inside Mount Pinatubo, a volcano in western Luzon, Philippines—its first eruption in 600 years.
1941:American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader Chick Corea was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
1924:George Bush takes the oath of office as U.S. president, January 20, 1989.George Bush, vice president of the United States (1981–89) and 41st president of the United States (1989–93), was born.
1898:Emilio Aguinaldo.The Philippines, under revolutionary leader Emilio Aguinaldo, declared its independence from Spain.
1776:The constitutional convention of the colony of Virginia adopted the Virginia Declaration of Rights, a model for the Bill of Rights later added to the U.S. Constitution.
1707:Bahadur Shah I won the Mughal throne of India by defeating his brother 'Azam Shah at the Battle of Jajau.
1701:The Act of Settlement, the law that continues to regulate the succession to the throne of the United Kingdom, was passed by Parliament.

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