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2009 After meeting with former president Bill Clinton, Kim Jong-il pardons and releases captured American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling who were found guilty of entering the country illegally.

Politics

2005 Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th Governor General and the first of African descent.

Sports

1976 England beats Australia by 8 wickets in the limited overs cricket international at Lord's in the first time women are permitted to play on the main square at 'the home of cricket'.

2014 Corinne Diacre became the first woman to coach a men's professional soccer team (Clermont Foot) in a competitive match in France on August 4, 2014, her 40th birthday.

2019 Golfer Hinako Shibuno of Japan wins her maiden major title in her first LPGA event; beats American Lizette Salas by 1 stroke at the British Open.

Writing

1944 Acting on tip from a Dutch informer, the Nazi Gestapo captures 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family in a sealed-off area of an Amsterdam warehouse. The Franks had taken shelter there in 1942 out of fear of deportation to a Nazi concentration camp. They occupied the small space with another Jewish family and a single Jewish man, and were aided by Christian friends, who brought them food and supplies. Anne spent much of her time in the so-called “secret annex” working on her diary. The diary survived the war, overlooked by the Gestapo that discovered the hiding place, but Anne and nearly all of the others perished in the Nazi death camps.