TODAY IN HISTORY
1892: Lizzie Borden took an axe: Andrew Borden - 10 whacks. Abby Borden - 14 whacks, in their home in Fall River, Mass. Lizzie was acquitted, and died in 1927 a millionaire.
1944: Nazis 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. She died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen in the spring of 1945, just weeks before the camp was liberated.
1987: The Federal Communications Commission voted to rescind the Fairness Doctrine, which required radio and television stations to present balanced coverage of controversial issues. Puh.
1994: Howard Stern withdraws as a candidate for Governor of New York, apparently because he did not wish to comply with the financial disclosure laws.
2001: The AWOL Wonderchimp, on his Crawford pig farm Bunnypants Bunker, fails to heed the advise of his little cow friends, and a few weeks later the September 11 attacks occur.
August 4, 2002
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