On this day: August 4Germany invades Belgium, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany, the U.S. declares its neutrality (1914)
Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established (1924)
A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family (1944)
President B. Hussein Obama's 50th birthday is marked with a lavish, celebrity-studded Chicago bash, while the U.S. remains mired in the 'silent crisis' of Obama's making (2011)
b: Yasser Arafat (1929), David Lange (1942), Alberto Gonzales (1955), B. Hussein Obama (1961)
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