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2001 Rosemary De Camp, actress, dies at 90
2000 L. Sprague de Camp, writer, Lest Darkness Fall, dies at 92 2000 Catherine Crook de Camp, writer, The Day of the Dinosaur, dies at 92 2000 Jim Varney, actor, Ernest Goes to Camp, dies at 50 1993 Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible 1993 Florida Marlins open their 1st spring training camp 1991 Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk, Netherlands/Indian writer (Camp Diary), dies at 86 1991 Helen Page Camp, 1990 Pete Rose begins 5-ms prison term at Marion (IL) Federal prison camp 1989 H. J. Heinz, Van Camp Seafood and Bumble Bee Seafood say they would not buy tuna caught in nets that also trap dolphins 1988 William Camp, dies at 74 1986 Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Prize 1986 Hermione Baddeley, actress (Camp Runamuck, Maude), dies at 79 1982 Pope John Paul II canonizes Reverend M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint 1982 In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai withdrawal 1979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel and Egypt 1979 Josef Mengele, concentration camp doctor, drowns 1978 Derrick Delmore, Camp Springs, Maryland, fig skater, 1996 Grand Prix champ 1978 Israeli Knesset endorses Camp David accord 1978 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Sadat home from Camp David summit 1978 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit 1978 Begin, Sadat and Carter sign Camp David accord 1978 Begin and Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace 1978 Sadat, Begin and Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md 1978 Russian dissident Ginsburg/Piatkus/Sjtsjaranki sentence to work camp 1976 Christian militia conquer Palestinian camp Tell al-Za'tar, 2000 killed 1976 Danielle Garrett, born in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, soccer forward 1996 Olympics 1975 Stephanie Camp, Rapid City, South Dakota, Miss America-SD 1997 1975 Ford became 1st U.S. President to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz 1974 Joaquin Leaf Phoenix, PR, actor, Russkies, Space Camp 1974 Leaf Phoenix, PR, actor, Russkies, Space Camp 1973 Allan Sherman, parodist (Camp Granada, Harvey and Sheila), dies at 48 1972 Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement, dies at 87 1971 -80 degrees F (-62 degrees C) in Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska (U.S. record) 1970 Sam Waters, Camp Springs, Maryland, singer, Color Me Badd-Want to Sex You Up 1968 Kevin Telles, actor, Party Camp 1968 Georg von der Vring, German painter (Camp Lafayette), dies at 78 1967 White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game) 1966 Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools, dies at 82 1966 Georgia BD Camp Johnson, U.S. poet/playwright, dies at 88 1966 North Vietnamese capture U.S. Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley 1963 Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins 1962 Mark Bradshaw, Happy Camp California, diver 1996 Olympics 1953 Wim G J M van de Camp, Dutch 2nd Chamber member, CDA 1953 Dave Camp, born in Midland, Michigan, Representative-R-Michigan 1991 - 1951 Armed uprising in Ambonezen Camp Middelburg 1948 Otto Skorzeny escapes anti-nazi camp at Darmstadt 1946 U.S. convicts 58 camp guard of Mauthausen concentration camp to death 1945 Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald liberated by U.S. 1945 Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated 1945 Mauthausen Concentration camp liberated 1945 Concentration camp Munchen-Allag freed 1945 Russian Army frees Ravensbruck concentration camp 1945 U.S. liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany 1945 Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated 1945 Concentration Camp at Sachsenhausen liberated 1945 British Army liberates Belsen concentration camp 1945 British and Canadian troops liberate Nazi camp of Bergen-Belsen 1945 U.S. troops occupy concentration camp Colditz 1945 Canadian troops liberate Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, Netherlands 1945 U.S. liberates Buchenwald concentration camp 1945 U.S. soldiers liberate Nazi concentration camp "Buchenwald" 1945 Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald, Czechoslovakia 1945 U.S. troops liberate Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany 1945 U.S. forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany 1945 Nazi's begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald 1945 Anne Frank, diarist (Diary of Anne Frank), killed in Belsen Camp 1945 Escape attempt at Mauthausen concentration camp 1945 Russia liberates Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland) 1945 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp 1945 Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation 1945 Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp 1944 Dian Parkinson, Dianna Lynn Batts, Camp LeJune, North Carolina, Miss USA, 1965 1944 Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp 1944 Last transport out camp Westerbork to Bergen Belsen 1944 12 workers of Dutch illegal paper "Trouw," executed at Camp Vught 1944 Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies 1944 Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp 1944 Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek 1944 Bernard M Cohen, attorney, killed at Belsen concentration camp 1944 Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased 1944 1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1944 Max Jacob, French writer, dies in nazi concentration camp at 67 1944 Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die 1944 Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established 1943 1st RSHA transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau camp 1943 3 allied officers escape out camp Stalag Luft 3 1943 1st Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau 1943 400 Jews escape in uprising at Sobibor extermination Camp in Poland 1943 Outbreak attempt in Sobibor Concentration Camp 1943 Concentration Camp Vaivara in Estonia opens 1943 Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens 1943 987 Dutch Jewish transported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1943 Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed) 1943 Gary Waldhorn, actor, To the Camp and Back 1943 Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews forms 1943 1st transport from Westerbork Netherlands to Sobibor concentration camp 1943 Women's camp Tamtui on Ambon (Moluccas) hit by allied air raid 1943 German riots at "plutocratenzoontjes," 1,200 in Vught Camp 1943 Nikolai Vavilov, geneticist, Saratovv labour camp, dies 1943 66.34 cm (26.12"), Hoegees Camp, California (state record) 1943 66.3 cm precipitation at Hoegees Camp, California (state record) 1943 1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught 1942 1st Japanese women camp (Ambarawa) goes into use 1942 999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium 1942 250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp 1942 Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka extermination Camp 1942 Jews transported from Holland to extermination camp 1942 1st deportation camp at Westerbork, Jews sent to Auschwitz 1942 Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp 1942 Jean Van Royen, Secretary-General of Concentration Camp Amersfoort, dies at 63 1942 Jean F van Royen, German secretary PTT (camp Amersfoort), dies 1942 Operations begin to destroy Sobibor Concentration Camp 1942 1st RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau 1942 SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp 1942 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec 1942 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp 1942 Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported 1942 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschewitz Concentration Camp 1942 Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews 1941 Destruction Camp Chelmo opens 1941 Concentration camp Birkenau begins being built 1941 Concentration camp Amersfoort opens 1941 "Camp Amersfoort" opened by Germany occupiers 1941 Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp 1941 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp 1941 Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp 1941 D A van den Bosch, anti-nazi clergyman (Amersfoort Camp), dies 1941 Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp 1941 IG Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1940 Auschwitz concentration camp opens, 3 million killed there 1940 Rudolf Hess becomes commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz 1940 Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1940 Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice 1940 -17 degrees F (-27 degrees C), CCC Camp F-16, Georgia (state record) 1939 Colijn's Dutch government opens camp Westerbork for German Jews 1938 Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria 1938 Concentration camp at Flossenburg goes into use 1937 Buchenwald Concentration Camp opens 1936 Pacifist/anti fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky sent to concentration camp, award Nobel Peace Prize 1936 Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens 1935 CCC camp opens in Brecksville Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks 1934 Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp 1934 Hamilton Camp, London, actor, Andrew-He and She, Meatballs 2 1933 Dachau, 1st concentration camp, completed 1929 Rosemary Camp, president, Council for British Archaeology 1928 51 frogs enter 1st annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, Cal) 1925 Walter Camp, father of American football, dies at 65 1921 Barbara F. Vucanovich, born in Camp Dix, New Jersey, Representative-R-Nevada 1983 - 1997 1920 Eldon Rudd, born in Camp Verde, Arizona, Representative-R-Arizona 1977 - 1987 1915 John Egerton, born in England, born John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland, served with British Expeditionary Force, captured at St. Valery, spent four years in a prisoner of war camp 1912 Jura Soyfer, born in Kharkov, Ukraine, writer, political journalist, imprisoned at Dachau concentration camp, wrote the Dachau song with composer Herbert Zipper 1912 Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs. Luther Halsey Gulick 1907 L[yon] Sprague de Camp, U.S., sci-fi author, Goblin Tower, Hand of Zei 1906 Hermione Baddeley, England, actress, Camp Runamuck, Maude, Good Life 1905 Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk, Netherlands/Indonesian writer, Camp diary 1904 Iron Eyes Cody, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, actor, Black Gold, Ernest Goes to Camp 1901 King Camp Gillette begins selling safety razor blades 1901 Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony 1901 Emily Hobhouse view lord Kitcheners concentration camp at Bloemfontein 1899 Billy Butlin, South Africa, holiday camp promoter, 1899 -47 degrees F (-44 degrees C), Camp Clarke, Nebraska (state record) 1899 Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's 1898 Camp Merritt forms in Presidio 1898 Camp Merriman forms at Presidio 1885 Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement 1884 Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools 1879 Zulus attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana South Africa 1879 British troops under Lord Chelmsford set camp at Isandlwana 1877 Georgia B D Camp Johnson, U.S., poet/playwright, Autumn Love Cycle 1876 Max Jacob, French writer, Concentration Camp, Le Siege de Jerusalem 1864 Sheridan sets up camp in Harrisonburg VA 1864 Near Andersonville Georgia, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumpter" 1862 Battle of Port Republic, last of 5 battles in Jacksons Valley camp 1861 Lexington Kentucky - Union military camp forms in neutral state 1859 Walter Camp, Connecticut, father of American football, Yale 1855 King Camp Gillette, inventor, safety razor 1846 Donner party, unable to cross the Donner Pass, construct a winter camp 1832 Charles Camp Doolittle, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Maxime Du Camp, France, writer/traveler, Les Buveurs de Cendres 1776 Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission |
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