In September 2013 a French alpinist found a metal box containing the Air India logo at the site of the plane crash on Mont Blanc containing rubies, sapphires, and emeralds worth more than $300.000, which he handed in to the police to be returned to the rightful owners. (24 January 1966)
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Friday 4th of August 1944 (x) — The Achterhuis where Diarist Anne Frank was hiding is stormed by a group of German uniformed police led by SS-OberscharführerKarl Silberbauer of the Sicherheitsdienst. On 3 September the Frank family was deported on what would be the last transport from Westerbork transit camp to Auschwitz KZ.