On this day in 1971, Simone Langenhoff, aged 6, was killed while cycling to school; hit by a speeding driver.
Her death and the movement started by her father, Vic Langenhoff, a newspaper journalist, changed an entire country and saved thousands of Dutch lives. Here's how ๐งต
ALT Poster by Stop de Kindermoord and portrait of Vic Langenhoff in 1983 ( CC0 โ Dutch National Archives)