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June 25, 1947

On June 25, 1947, the Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published. Moses Blah, Jerzy Stuhr, James Woods would arrive in the same year.

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1947

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1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1947th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 947th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1940s decade.

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On June 25, 1947

  1. 1947 The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.

    Diary by Anne Frank

    The Diary of a Young Girl, commonly referred to as The Diary of Anne Frank, is a book of the writings from the Dutch-language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944, and Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. Anne's diaries were retrieved by Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl.

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Moses Blah 1947– Liberian general and politician, 23rd President of Liberia (died 2013)
Jerzy Stuhr 1947– Polish actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2024)
James Woods 1947– American actor and producer
John Blackman 1947– Australian radio and television presenter (died 2024)
Claudia J. Kennedy 1947– American general
Salih Neftçi 1947– Turkish economist and author (died 2009)

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