Seeds of Fire: A People’s Chronology

Recalling events that happened on this day in history.
Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.

Compiled by Ulli Diemer

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June 14, 1928
Birth of Che Guevara (1928-1967), Argentine physician, author, and revolutionary, one of the key figures of the Cuban Revolution.
June 14, 1940  
The German army enters Paris, a little more than a month after launching its invasion of France.
Related Topics: ParisWorld War II
June 14, 1942
Anne Frank (1929-1945) starts keeping a diary, two days after her 13th birthday. For the next two years, she chronicles her life, until, in August 1944, her family’s hiding place in Amsterdam is betrayed, and she is sent to her death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Her diary is discovered and published after her death.
Related Topics: Diaries



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