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August 4, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 4, the 216th day of 2010. There are 149 days left in the year.

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1944: Anne Frank, 15, is arrested along with her sister, parents and four others by German security after hiding for two years inside a building in Amsterdam. (Anne, who’d kept a now-famous diary during her time in hiding, died in March 1945 at the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp.)

1735: A jury finds John Peter Zenger of the New York Weekly Journal not guilty of committing seditious libel against the colonial governor of New York, William Cosby.

1790: The Coast Guard has its beginnings as the Revenue Cutter Service.

1792: English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley is born at Field Place near Horsham, England.

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1985: Youngstown State University is reviewing the circumstance under which a professor in the Williamson School of Business was also found to be registered as a full-time instructor at a Pennsylvania community college.

A pharmacy worker at St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center is arrested on drug charges after police find more than $4,500 worth of pills in her purse.

Dr. Perry G. Rigby, a native of East Liverpool and dean of the Louisiana State University, is named chancellor of the statewide LSU Medical Center.

1970: Ohio Edison Co. notifies Youngstown officials of its plan to abandon steam heating service in Youngstown. City officials begin looking for alternatives.

Mrs. Catherine Otto, 56, dies of burns and smoke inhalation suffered while attempting to rescue a patient from a fire at Otto’s Nursing Home, 1508 Fifth Avenue, Youngstown. The patient, Leo Harmon, 77, is hospitalized in serious condition.

Youngstown native John Lee DeMain is directing the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra during a three-week leave from the National Education Television Opera Workshop.

The Mahoning County Medical Society, the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce and the Youngstown Area AFL-CIO combine forces to promote Youngstown as the site of a new medical school.

Steubenville has the dirtiest air — clogged with dust, smoke, soot and the like — in the nation, says the National Air Pollution Control Administration.

1960: The mayor’s charter revision committee will consider protests against the proposed enlargement of the Park and Recreation Commission.

Meeting at the Mural Ballroom, 100 presidents, business agents and staff representatives of AFL-CIO unions pledge their support for Youngstown’s redevelopment program.

Two Ashtabula County brothers face investigation by the State Agriculture Department for mixing harmful sodium sulfites in chopped meat.

1935: The Youngstown planning department issues 141 building permits valued at $95,379, twice that of the month before.

About $200 worth of scrap paper collected by 26 Boy Scouts at Faith Lutheran Church to fiance their trip to the Scout Jamboree in Washington is destroyed by fire in a garage on Lansdowne Blvd. where the paper was being stored.

Six Mahoning County men are sworn in as lawyers: Ross Edwin Diser, Charles P. Henderson, Ralph Delfraino, Paul R. Schuman, Robert H. Voelkle and Felix S. Mica.

Vindicator Church Editor Polly Hossel accompanies Sheriff Ralph Elser and his deputies on liquor raids in Youngstown, describing the splinters and glass that went flying as raiders bust down the doors of speakeasies.