TODAY IN HISTORY

1483

England's King Richard III was crowned in Westminster Abbey.

1777

During the American Revolution, British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga.

1885

French scientist Louis Pasteur tested an antirabies vaccine on 9-year-old Joseph Meister, who had been bitten by an infected dog; the boy did not develop rabies.

1942

Anne Frank, her parents and sister entered a “secret annex” in an Amsterdam building where they were later joined by four other people; they hid from Nazi occupiers for two years before being discovered and arrested.