Today is Thursday, Aug. 4, the 217th day of 2016. There are 149 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Actress Tina Cole is 73. Actor-comedian Richard Belzer is 72. Football Hall-of-Famer John Riggins is 67. Former attorney general Alberto Gonzales is 61. Actor-screenwriter Billy Bob Thornton is 61. Hall of Fame track star Mary Decker Slaney is 58. President Obama is 55. Retired Red Sox All-Star pitcher Roger Clemens is 54. Author Dennis Lehane is 51. Race car driver Jeff Gordon is 45.

In 1735, a jury found John Peter Zenger of the New York Weekly Journal not guilty of committing seditious libel against the colonial governor of New York. The case is considered a cornerstone affirming the power of a free press to criticize the actions of public officials.

In 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were axed to death in their home in Fall River. Lizzie Borden, Andrew’s daughter from a previous marriage, was charged but acquitted of the killings.

In 1944, 15-year-old diarist Anne Frank was arrested with her sister, parents, and four others by the Gestapo after hiding for two years in a building in Amsterdam. (Anne and her sister, Margot, died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.)

In 1964, the bodies of missing civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney were found buried in an earthen dam in Mississippi.

Last year, President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel made dueling appeals to the American Jewish community as they sought to rally support for their opposing positions on the Iranian nuclear deal.