Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe , Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Today is Aug. 4. The Nazi Gestapo, acting on a tip from a Dutch informer, captured 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family in a sealed-off area of an Amsterdam warehouse.on this date in 1944. Advertisement The concept of freedom of the press in the American colonies was solidified on this date in 1735 when New York newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger was acquitted of libel charges. The case of the Rodney King videotaped beating came to a conclusion of sorts on this date in 1993, when a federal judge in Los Angeles sentenced former L.A. police officers Stacy Koon and Laurence Powell to 2½ years in prison for their role in the black motorist's beating. Koon and Powell had been convicted on federal civil rights charges; a criminal trial a year earlier had ended in acquittals for them and two other officers - sparking rioting in L.A. and elsewhere. The man accused of shooting and wounding Alabama Gov. George Wallace was convicted on this date in 1972. Arthur Bremer was sentenced to 63 years in prison. Wallace had been left paralyzed by the shooting, and spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. Advertisement And it was on this date in 1991 that the Greek liner Oceanos sank off the South Africa coast in heavy seas. All 571 people aboard were rescued, but the captain and crew were reported to have abandoned ship AHEAD of the passengers. So much for the captain going down with his ship. We now return you to the present, already in progress.
