Today is Monday, Aug. 4, the 216th day of 2003. There are 149 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Monday, Aug. 4, the 216th day of 2003. There are 149 days left in the year. On this date in 1944, Nazi police raid the secret annex of a building in Amsterdam and arrest eight people -- including 15-year-old Anne Frank, whose diary becomes a famous account of the Holocaust. Anne dies at Bergen-Belsen.
In 1735, a jury acquits John Peter Zenger of the New York Weekly Journal of seditious libel. In 1790, the Coast Guard has its beginnings as the Revenue Cutter Service. In 1792, romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley is born in Field Place, England. In 1830, plans for the city of Chicago are laid out. In 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden are axed to death in their home in Fall River, Mass. Lizzie Borden, Andrew Borden's daughter from a previous marriage, is accused of the killings, but acquitted at trial. In 1914, Britain declares war on Germany while the United States proclaims its neutrality. In 1916, the United States purchases the Danish Virgin Islands for $25 million. In 1964, the bodies of missing civil rights workers Michael H. Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E. Chaney are found buried in an earthen dam in Mississippi. In 1977, President Carter signs a measure establishing the Department of Energy. In 1987, the Federal Communications Commission votes to rescind the Fairness Doctrine, which requires radio and television stations to present balanced coverage of controversial issues. In 1993, a federal judge sentenced Los Angeles police officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 21/2 years in prison for violating Rodney King's civil rights.
August 4, 1978: GF Business Equipment Inc. has a second quarter profit of $90,449, a healthy turnaround from its loss of more than $2 million in the first quarter, reports President and Chief Operating Officer Mason D. Feisel.
A long-awaited improvement in the heart of downtown Youngstown urban renewal land is about to materialize as Mayor J. Phillip Richley announces that a 16-story structure will be built by architect and developer Andrew Burin, providing 173 one bedroom apartments for the elderly and 800 square feet of leased commercial space on the ground floor.
Mahoning County's second-half 1977 tax collection comes to $22.9 million, or 98.3 percent of the total charge. The first-half collection exceeded 99 percent.
August 4, 1963: East Ohio Gas Co. crews are drilling holes in downtown streets and sidewalks, which are then plugged with rubber stoppers. Sensors will be inserted into the holes on a monthly basis to check for leaks in gas lines in heavily traveled commercial areas.
The American Anti-Vivisection Society protests strongly an Atomic Energy Commission plan to use 1,000 dogs and more than 10,000 smaller laboratory animals in radioactivity tests over a period of years.
Youngstown sidewalk inspectors will go to work with special instructions from City Engineer Albert R. Haenny to nip in the bud a potential groundswell of complains about the city's $1.2 million sidewalk reconstruction program. Some residents are complaining that their walks are not bad enough to warrant replacement, while other are unhappy that their sidewalk wasn't marked for repair or replacement.
Medro White of Youngstown scores an eagle two on the par four fifth hole at the Avalon course in Warren and then uses a nine iron on the sixth hole to sink a 125-yard hole in one. White bogeyed the next four holes, and winded up with a 73 for the day.
August 4, 1953: Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge David G. Jenkins rules that six Struthers policemen, including ex-chief Neil K. Gordon, whose pensions were stopped, should be restored to the pension fund because the Struthers police pension board was legally wrong in discontinuing them. The pensions had been ordered discontinued by a state examiner.
A 29-year-old South Side man who bragged in several downtown Youngstown taverns that he was the turnpike killer is being held in city jail without charge. Bar patrons called police after the man loudly proclaimed that two dead truckers got what they deserved and declared that he was the killer.
Advertisement: Kids! Coming to the Century Food Market at 1815 Belmont Ave., the gigantic, 35-foot Ralston Rocket Ship. Children will be able to board the rocket, operate the controls and see the future capital of the universe!
August 4, 1928: Three men held in the Mahoning County Jail on serious charges take possession of the jail for a short time after overpowering Deputy Sheriff Charles Conway and seizing his gun. They return the gun to Conway and surrender after heavily armed police and deputy sheriffs surround the jail.
In a Vindicator straw vote taken at the Youngstown YWCA, Herbert Hoover, Republican nominee for president, polls 146 votes, compared to 14 for his opponent Alfred E. Smith, the Democratic nominee.
The Mahoning County treasurer's office closes its July tax collection with about $5.2 million collected toward the total charge of $6 million. If those figures hold, Youngstown schools and other subdivisions will face serious operating shortages.