Welcome to the History Tricks where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

And here's your 30-second summary.

Once upon a time, though not so long ago, a young girl was given a birthday present, a notebook.

And even though her own life was short and the times she lived in were turbulent,

what she did with that notebook has provided inspiration for millions of people all over the world.

The End.

Let's talk about Anne Frank.

But first, let's drop her into history.

In 1929, US and Canada agreed to work together in divert water to help protect Niagara Falls.

Acadia National Park and Main and Grand Teton National Park and Wyoming were both established.

Mostly in these government in Italy banned the use of foreign words by banning the letters J.K.W. X. and Y.

Mother Teresa began her work in India and Walter Winchell made his radio debut.

The first group hospital insurance plan in the US was offered.

Convicted of accepting a $1 million bribe, Albert B. Fall became the first US cabinet member to go to jail.

Martin Luther King Jr., Jacqueline Kennedy-O-Nastis, Whitey Bulger, Barbara Walters, Grace Kelly, and William Sapphire were born.

And in 1929, Anne Frank began a very short life that would have a very long lasting impact.

Emily S. Marie Frank was born in Frankfort, Germany on June 12, 1929, the second of the two daughters of Otto and Edith Hollander Frank.

Mama was the youngest child in a wealthy family of industrial suppliers whose maiden name Hollander actually meant Dutchman, which I think is very ironic given her future home.

Her family's business was really interesting because they dealt in machinery, scrap metal, paper, clothing, they were processing plants.

But I'm reading about this. I'm like, how do those all tie together? Recycling. Gosh, there's some phrase that they used to say where there's muck, there's brass, there's money and trash.

And I think there is because this lady went to the best schools, the exclusive Victoria School for Girls, which was a Protestant private school, which made a point of enrolling Catholic.

And Jewish students for diversity purposes. And the fact that her Jewish parents center there, now they were practicing Jews, they had a kosher kitchen, they went to synagogue regularly, but they sent their daughter to a Protestant school, which tells you how progressive this family was.

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