On this day in History, Gian Lorenzo Bernini completed La Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi in Rome, depicting four rivers to celebrate riverinity. In addition, Helsinki was founded by King Gustav I of Sweden and is now the only metropolis in Finland. Anne Frank, the Jewish Holocaust victim whose diary describes her family hiding from the Nazis during the World War II, was born. Rachel Beckwith, who died at the age of nine, inspired a flood of inspired action by adults and children worldwide to raise more than $1.26 million for clean water. It is also Record Store Day, celebrating independent record store culture with exclusive vinyl and CD releases.

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