ON THIS DAY

1609: 1799: 1814:

Bermuda becomes a British colony. Austria declares war on France. British troops under Wellington capture Bordeaux in France.

Polish historian Paul de Strzelecki climbs and names Mount Kosciuszko, Australia’s highest mountain.

In India, the Sikhs surrender to the British at Rawalpindi.

Anne Frank, the Dutch Jewish teenager who kept a diary of her wartime experiences, dies in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, aged 15.

Nationwide strike of British miners begins. It lasts until March 3, 1985.

US-born violinist Sir Yehudi Menuhin dies

Jack Kerouac, US writer (1922-1969); Liza Minnelli, US singer-actress (1946-); Steve Price, Australia rugby league player (1974-).

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