On this day in 1944, a tip from a Dutch informer led the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they found and arrested Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
On this day in 1958, the Billboard Hot 100 was published for the first time.
On this day in 1991, the Greek cruise ship MTS Oceanos sunk off the Wild Coast of South Africa.
And on this day in 2007, NASA's Phoenix spacecraft was launched.