June 21st is Anne and Samantha Day

Anne Frank

 This twice annual holiday celebrates the lives of two young girls who made a difference in their worlds, Anne Frank and Samantha Smith. Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl who had to go into hiding to escape the Nazis and is best known for "The Diary of Anne Frank."

Samantha Smith

Ten-year-old Samantha Smith wrote a letter to Soviet President Yuri Andropov in December of 1982 "to ask if he was going to wage a nuclear war against the U.S. She toured the USSR at his invitation the following July and, as a result, became first a media celebrity and then a television actress. Samantha died on a rainy August night in 1985 when the commercial plane she was in crashed killing all aboard," according to the Samantha Smith Foundation. Celebrated on the first day of summer and the first day of winter, the holiday seeks to promote the girls as being worthy of appearing on U.S. postage stamps.