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Today is Monday, Aug. 4, the 217th day of 2008. There are 149 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Aug. 4, 1944, Nazi police raided the secret annex of a building in Amsterdam and arrested eight people, including 15-year-old Anne Frank, whose diary became a famous account of the Holocaust. (Anne died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp some seven months later.)
On this date:
- In 1735, a jury acquitted John Peter Zenger of the New York Weekly Journal of seditious libel.
- In 1790, the Coast Guard had its beginnings as the Revenue Cutter Service.
- In 1792, English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born at Field Place near Horsham, England.
- In 1830, plans for the city of Chicago were laid out.
- In 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were axed to death in their home in Fall River, Mass. Lizzie Borden, Andrew's daughter from a previous marriage, was accused...