{"id":21102,"date":"2015-08-04T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=21102"},"modified":"2015-08-04T08:25:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T13:25:55","slug":"today-in-history-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=21102","title":{"rendered":"Today In History"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21103\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21103\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?attachment_id=21103\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21103\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21103\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/0804annefrankB-238x300.jpg?resize=238%2C300\" alt=\"Anne Frank. The date of this photo is unknown.\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anne Frank. The date of this photo is unknown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 4, 1944, Anne Frank, 15, was arrested along with her sister, parents and four other people after they had spent two years hiding from the Nazis in a building Amsterdam. Her diary became a famous account of the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>On this date in:<br \/>\n1790- The Coast Guard had its beginnings as the Revenue Cutter Service.<br \/>\n1792- Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in Field Place, England.<br \/>\n1830- Plans for the city of Chicago were laid out.<br \/>\n1892- Andrew and Abby Borden were axed to death in their home in Fall River, Mass. (Lizzie Borden, Andrew Borden&#8217;s daughter from a previous marriage, was accused of the killings, though she was later acquitted.)<br \/>\n1914- Britain declared war on Germany while the United States proclaimed its neutrality in World War I.<br \/>\n1964- The bodies of three missing civil rights workers were found buried in an earthen dam in Mississippi.<br \/>\n1977- President Jimmy Carter signed a measure establishing the Department of Energy.<br \/>\n1987- The Federal Communications Commission voted to rescind the Fairness Doctrine, which required radio and TV stations to present balanced coverage of controversial issues.<br \/>\n1994- Serb-dominated Yugoslavia withdrew its support for Bosnian Serbs, sealing the 300-mile border between Yugoslavia and Serb-held Bosnia.<br \/>\n2002- A Palestinian suicide bomber blew up a bus in northern Israel during rush hour, killing nine passengers.<br \/>\n2005- A mini-submarine carrying seven Russians became caught on an underwater antenna 600 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean; the men were rescued three days later with help from a British vessel.<br \/>\n2007- Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants tied Hank Aaron&#8217;s 755 career home runs.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Birthdays:<br \/>\nPresident Barack Obama turns 54 years old today.<br \/>\nRichard Belzer, Actor, comedian (&#8220;Law and Order: Special Victims Unit&#8221;), 71<br \/>\nJohn Riggins, Football Hall of Famer, 66<br \/>\nAlberto Gonzales, Former attorney general, 60<br \/>\nBilly Bob Thornton, Actor, 60<br \/>\nKym Karath, Actress (&#8220;The Sound of Music&#8221;), 57<br \/>\nRoger Clemens, Baseball player, 53<br \/>\nDennis Lehane, Author, 50<br \/>\nMichael DeLuise, Actor, 46<br \/>\nJeff Gordon, Race car driver, 44<br \/>\nCrystal Bowersox, Country singer (&#8220;American Idol&#8221;), 30<br \/>\nDylan Sprouse, Actor, 23<br \/>\nCole Sprouse, Actor, 23<br \/>\nActor Daniel Dae Kim (&#8220;Lost,&#8221; &#8220;Hawaii Five-O&#8221;) turns 47 years old today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press On Aug. 4, 1944, Anne Frank, 15, was arrested along with her sister, parents and four other people after they had spent two&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6132],"tags":[7003,6817,7010,7006,7008,106,7007,7005,7009,7011,6131,7004],"class_list":["post-21102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-anne-frank","tag-barry-bonds","tag-billy-bob-thornton","tag-chicago","tag-department-of-energy","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-lizzie-borden","tag-percy-bysshe-shelley","tag-president-barack-obama","tag-roger-clemens","tag-today-in-history","tag-u-s-coast-guard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21104,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21102\/revisions\/21104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}