Sixty-five million years ago the last of the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct. So too did the giant mosasaurs and plesiosaurs in the seas and the pterosaurs in the skies.Plankton, the base of the ocean food chain, took a hard hit. Many families of brachiopods and sea sponges disappeared.ixty-five million years ago the last of the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct. So too did the giant mosasaurs and plesiosaurs in the seas and the pterosaurs in the skies.
1952: Anne Frank published in English. The moving diary of Anne Frank, a Jewish victim of the Holocaust, is now available in British book shops entitled The Diary of a Young Girl. The book was first published in Dutch in 1947 under the title Het Achterhuis (The Secret House) by her father Otto Frank, who survived the concentration camps.
Anne was in hiding with her mother, father, sister Margot, Mr., Mrs., and Peter Van Pels (Van Daan in the diary), and Fritz Pfeffer (Mr. Dussel in the diary). The story involves action, romance, and the everyday struggles of an average teen. Over 31 million copies of The Diary of Anne Frank have been sold since August of 1945. It is an amazing tale of a young Jewish girl growing up and maturing while hiding from the German Nazis for 25 months in the secret annex of her father's warehouse.