Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Junior Were Born In the Same Year

Anne Frank earned her fame posthumously with her journal “The Diary of a Young Girl” in which she details her life in hiding from the years 1942 to 1944.

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Martin Luther King Jr. led the civil rights movement until he died in 1968. It may seem like Anne’s existence was long before MLK, but no, they were born in the same year.

The Year Star Wars Came Out…

In 1977, the beginning of a gigantic franchise and cult following began when Star Wars came out. And this was also the same year as the last guillotine execution in France.

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While people were sitting in theatres amazed at the sci-fi film, the medieval practice of execution by guillotine was still happening in France. Hamida “Pimp Killer” Djandoubi was executed for the torture and murder of a young woman. But that was the last use of the guillotine in France, and nobody has been executed by guillotine ever since.

If you wanna know what is still around today when the last wooly mammoth died, see what’s next.

Today’s Oldest Living Tree Was Already 1,000 Years Old When The Last Wooly

Mammoth Died

If you want to touch something that was around when wooly mammoths were roaming around, you can. The oldest tree in the world is a Great Basin bristlecone pine located in the White Mountains of California, and is said to be 5067 years old.

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There were isolated populations of wooly mammoths on Wrangel Island which didn’t go extinct until 4,000 years ago. The small island in the Arctic Ocean was a sanctuary for the large creatures.

Princess Diana and Mother Teresa Died Only Days Apart

Princess Diana and Mother Teresa died within a few days of each other in 1997. You probably remember when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris on August 31st.

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Mother Teresa passed away on September 5th after a long battle with her declining health. The two are seen together in this photo.

Do you think the pilgrims of Plymouth Rock were the first to settle in America? See the next photo…

The Pilgrims Weren’t the First Ones Here

People think that the first Europeans who came by ship in 1620 to the US were the landing of the pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, MA.

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In reality, Spanish explorers had already been in the Southwest for a century, and in 1610 they started building the ‘Palace of the Governors’ in Santa Fe.