2014 Event The last protest camp has been removed in Hong Kong; activists staged several camps to demand the right to free elections rather than control of candidates and elections by the Chinese government 2013 Event In Camp Nou, located in Barcelona, Catalonia, over 90,000 people attend the 'Concert per la llibertat' (Concert for freedom) for the independence of Catalonia 2012 Event A refugee camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo experiences an outbreak of cholera; thousands have fled there due to fighting between government troops and M23 rebels 2011 Event In western Ethiopia, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees opens new refugee camp for refugees from Sudan and South Sudan 2011 Event An extremist explodes a car bomb in Oslo, Norway, killing at least seven people; he then opens fire at a Labour Party youth camp in Utoya, Norway, killing 84 2010 Event Israel requests that Germany arrest Klaas Carel Faber, a Nazi war criminal who killed 20 Jews at Westerbork concentration camp 2010 Event Buildings across Bangkok are set on fire by red shirt protesters after the military stormed a protest camp in the center of the city 2001 Death Rosemary De Camp, actress, dies at 90 2000 Death L. Sprague de Camp, writer, Lest Darkness Fall, dies at 92 2000 Death Catherine Crook de Camp, writer, The Day of the Dinosaur, dies at 92 2000 Death Jim Varney, actor, Ernest Goes to Camp, dies at 50 1993 Event Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible 1993 Event Florida Marlins open their 1st spring training camp 1991 Death Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk, Netherlands/Indian writer (Camp Diary), dies at 86 1991 Death Helen Page Camp, 1990 Event Pete Rose begins 5-ms prison term at Marion (IL) Federal prison camp 1989 Event H. J. Heinz, Van Camp Seafood and Bumble Bee Seafood say they would not buy tuna caught in nets that also trap dolphins 1988 Death William Camp, dies at 74 1986 Event Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Prize 1986 Death Hermione Baddeley, actress (Camp Runamuck, Maude), dies at 79 1982 Event Pope John Paul II canonizes Reverend M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint 1982 Event In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai withdrawal 1979 Event Camp David peace treaty between Israel and Egypt 1979 Death Josef Mengele, concentration camp doctor, drowns 1978 Birthday Derrick Delmore, Camp Springs, Maryland, fig skater, 1996 Grand Prix champ 1978 Event Israeli Knesset endorses Camp David accord 1978 Event 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Sadat home from Camp David summit 1978 Event Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit 1978 Event Begin, Sadat and Carter sign Camp David accord 1978 Event Begin and Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace 1978 Event Sadat, Begin and Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md 1978 Event Russian dissident Ginsburg/Piatkus/Sjtsjaranki sentence to work camp 1976 Event Christian militia conquer Palestinian camp Tell al-Za'tar, 2000 killed 1976 Birthday Danielle Garrett, born in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, soccer forward 1996 Olympics 1975 Birthday Stephanie Camp, Rapid City, South Dakota, Miss America-SD 1997 1975 Event Ford became 1st U.S. President to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz 1974 Birthday Joaquin Leaf Phoenix, PR, actor, Russkies, Space Camp 1974 Birthday Leaf Phoenix, PR, actor, Russkies, Space Camp 1973 Death Allan Sherman, parodist (Camp Granada, Harvey and Sheila), dies at 48 1972 Death Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement, dies at 87 1971 Event -80 degrees F (-62 degrees C) in Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska (U.S. record) 1970 Birthday Sam Waters, Camp Springs, Maryland, singer, Color Me Badd-Want to Sex You Up 1968 Death Georg von der Vring, German painter (Camp Lafayette), dies at 78 1967 Event White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game) 1966 Death Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools, dies at 82 1966 Death Georgia BD Camp Johnson, U.S. poet/playwright, dies at 88 1966 Event North Vietnamese capture U.S. Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley 1963 Event Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins 1962 Birthday Gina Gershon, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, film roles include, 'Cocktail', 'Bound', 'Showgirls', author of children's book, 'Camp Creepy Time' 1962 Birthday Mark Bradshaw, Happy Camp California, diver 1996 Olympics 1953 Birthday Wim G J M van de Camp, Dutch 2nd Chamber member, CDA 1953 Birthday Dave Camp, born in Midland, Michigan, Representative-R-Michigan 1991 - 1951 Event Armed uprising in Ambonezen Camp Middelburg 1948 Event Otto Skorzeny escapes anti-nazi camp at Darmstadt 1946 Event U.S. convicts 58 camp guard of Mauthausen concentration camp to death 1945 Event Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald liberated by U.S. 1945 Event Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated 1945 Event Mauthausen Concentration camp liberated 1945 Event Concentration camp Munchen-Allag freed 1945 Event Russian Army frees Ravensbruck concentration camp 1945 Event U.S. liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany 1945 Event Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated 1945 Event Concentration Camp at Sachsenhausen liberated 1945 Event British Army liberates Belsen concentration camp 1945 Event British and Canadian troops liberate Nazi camp of Bergen-Belsen 1945 Event U.S. troops occupy concentration camp Colditz 1945 Event Canadian troops liberate Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, Netherlands 1945 Event U.S. liberates Buchenwald concentration camp 1945 Event U.S. soldiers liberate Nazi concentration camp "Buchenwald" 1945 Event Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald, Czechoslovakia 1945 Event U.S. troops liberate Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany 1945 Event U.S. forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany 1945 Event Nazi's begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald 1945 Death Anne Frank, diarist (Diary of Anne Frank), killed in Belsen Camp 1945 Event Escape attempt at Mauthausen concentration camp 1945 Event Russia liberates Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland) 1945 Event Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp 1945 Event Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation 1945 Event Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp 1944 Birthday Dian Parkinson, Dianna Lynn Batts, Camp LeJune, North Carolina, Miss USA, 1965 1944 Event Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp 1944 Event Last transport out camp Westerbork to Bergen Belsen 1944 Event 12 workers of Dutch illegal paper "Trouw," executed at Camp Vught 1944 Event Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies 1944 Event Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp 1944 Event Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek 1944 Death Bernard M Cohen, attorney, killed at Belsen concentration camp 1944 Event Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased 1944 Event 1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1944 Death Max Jacob, French writer, dies in nazi concentration camp at 67 1944 Event Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die 1944 Event Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established 1943 Event 1st RSHA transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau camp 1943 Event 3 allied officers escape out camp Stalag Luft 3 1943 Event 1st Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau 1943 Event 400 Jews escape in uprising at Sobibor extermination Camp in Poland 1943 Event Outbreak attempt in Sobibor Concentration Camp 1943 Event Concentration Camp Vaivara in Estonia opens 1943 Event Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens 1943 Event 987 Dutch Jewish transported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1943 Event Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed) 1943 Birthday Gary Waldhorn, actor, To the Camp and Back 1943 Event Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews forms 1943 Event 1st transport from Westerbork Netherlands to Sobibor concentration camp 1943 Event Women's camp Tamtui on Ambon (Moluccas) hit by allied air raid 1943 Event German riots at "plutocratenzoontjes," 1,200 in Vught Camp 1943 Death Nikolai Vavilov, geneticist, Saratovv labour camp, dies 1943 Event 66.34 cm (26.12"), Hoegees Camp, California (state record) 1943 Event 66.3 cm precipitation at Hoegees Camp, California (state record) 1943 Event 1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught 1942 Event 1st Japanese women camp (Ambarawa) goes into use 1942 Event 999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium 1942 Event 250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp 1942 Event Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka extermination Camp 1942 Event Jews transported from Holland to extermination camp 1942 Event 1st deportation camp at Westerbork, Jews sent to Auschwitz 1942 Event Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp 1942 Death Jean Van Royen, Secretary-General of Concentration Camp Amersfoort, dies at 63 1942 Death Jean F van Royen, German secretary PTT (camp Amersfoort), dies 1942 Event Operations begin to destroy Sobibor Concentration Camp 1942 Event 1st RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau 1942 Event SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp 1942 Event 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec 1942 Event 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp 1942 Event Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported 1942 Event 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschewitz Concentration Camp 1942 Event Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews 1941 Event Destruction Camp Chelmo opens 1941 Event Concentration camp Birkenau begins being built 1941 Event Concentration camp Amersfoort opens 1941 Event "Camp Amersfoort" opened by Germany occupiers 1941 Event Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp 1941 Event 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp 1941 Event Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp 1941 Death D A van den Bosch, anti-nazi clergyman (Amersfoort Camp), dies 1941 Event Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp 1941 Event IG Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1940 Event Auschwitz concentration camp opens, 3 million killed there 1940 Event Rudolf Hess becomes commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz 1940 Event Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1940 Event Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice 1940 Event -17 degrees F (-27 degrees C), CCC Camp F-16, Georgia (state record) 1939 Event Colijn's Dutch government opens camp Westerbork for German Jews 1938 Event Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria 1938 Event Concentration camp at Flossenburg goes into use 1937 Event Buchenwald Concentration Camp opens 1936 Event Pacifist/anti fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky sent to concentration camp, award Nobel Peace Prize 1936 Event Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens 1935 Event CCC camp opens in Brecksville Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks 1934 Event Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp 1934 Birthday Hamilton Camp, London, actor, Andrew-He and She, Meatballs 2 1933 Event Dachau, 1st concentration camp, completed 1929 Birthday Rosemary Camp, president, Council for British Archaeology 1928 Event 51 frogs enter 1st annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, Cal) 1925 Death Walter Camp, father of American football, dies at 65 1921 Birthday Barbara F. Vucanovich, born in Camp Dix, New Jersey, Representative-R-Nevada 1983 - 1997 1920 Birthday Eldon Rudd, born in Camp Verde, Arizona, Representative-R-Arizona 1977 - 1987 1915 Birthday 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 Birthday Jura Soyfer, born in Kharkov, Ukraine, writer, political journalist, imprisoned at Dachau concentration camp, wrote the Dachau song with composer Herbert Zipper 1912 Event Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs. Luther Halsey Gulick 1907 Birthday L[yon] Sprague de Camp, U.S., sci-fi author, Goblin Tower, Hand of Zei 1906 Birthday Hermione Baddeley, England, actress, Camp Runamuck, Maude, Good Life 1905 Birthday Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk, Netherlands/Indonesian writer, Camp diary 1904 Birthday Iron Eyes Cody, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, actor, Black Gold, Ernest Goes to Camp 1901 Event King Camp Gillette begins selling safety razor blades 1901 Event Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony 1901 Event Emily Hobhouse view lord Kitcheners concentration camp at Bloemfontein 1899 Birthday Billy Butlin, South Africa, holiday camp promoter, 1899 Event -47 degrees F (-44 degrees C), Camp Clarke, Nebraska (state record) 1899 Event Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's 1898 Event Camp Merritt forms in Presidio 1898 Event Camp Merriman forms at Presidio 1885 Birthday Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement 1884 Birthday Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools 1879 Event Zulus attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana South Africa 1879 Event British troops under Lord Chelmsford set camp at Isandlwana 1877 Birthday Georgia B D Camp Johnson, U.S., poet/playwright, Autumn Love Cycle 1876 Birthday Max Jacob, French writer, Concentration Camp, Le Siege de Jerusalem 1864 Event Sheridan sets up camp in Harrisonburg VA 1864 Event Near Andersonville Georgia, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumpter" 1862 Event Battle of Port Republic, last of 5 battles in Jacksons Valley camp 1861 Event Lexington Kentucky - Union military camp forms in neutral state 1859 Birthday Walter Camp, Connecticut, father of American football, Yale 1855 Birthday King Camp Gillette, inventor, safety razor 1846 Event Donner party, unable to cross the Donner Pass, construct a winter camp 1832 Birthday Charles Camp Doolittle, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Maxime Du Camp, France, writer/traveler, Les Buveurs de Cendres 1776 Event Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission
