Some of you will be aware that today marks the centenary of when Britain declared war on Germany for invading Belgium. Everyone in the UK has been invited to turn their lights out from 10-11pm this evening leaving a single light or candle to mark the moment the UK entered the First World War, exactly 100 years ago today.
Roll on 30 years to 4th August 1944 a 15 year old girl was arrested with her sister, parents and four others by the Gestapo after hiding for two years inside a building in Amsterdam. Her name was Anne Frank. Seven months later Anne died at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Lohheide, Germany. Her diary lives on: "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." — Anne Frank (1929-1945).
Today's Google Doodle marks 180th birthday of English logician and philosopher Jon Venn who is famous for introducing the Venn diagram which is used in many fields, including set theory, probability, logic, statistics and computer science. See Independent's article
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