On this day in 1939, France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declared war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allies.
On this day in 1944, diarist Anne Frank and her family were placed on the last transport train to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.
And on this day in 1999, Taipei kindergarten teacher Lin Chien-chuan, who died in a school bus fire trying to rescue the small children in her care six years before, became the first woman to be enshrined in Nankang Martyr's Shrine in suburban Taipei.