历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-08-17
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August 17th, 1969Hurricane Camille slams into the Gulf1 Coast, making landfall just east of the mouth of the Mississippi River. The Category 5 storm kills more than 250 people, more than 35 years before Hurricane Katrina devastates2 the region. 1998 “They did not constitute sexual relations, as I understood that term to be defined.”
In Washington, President Bill Clinton faces federal grand jury questioning in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. That’s where he finally admits his past relationship with the former White House
intern3.
Afterward4, Clinton tells the American people:
“Indeed I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical
lapse5 in
judgment6 and a personal failure on my part for which I am
solely7 and completely responsible. ”
1896“There’re strange things done in the midnight sun, by the men who
toil8 for gold.”
Prospectors9 find gold in Canada’s Yukon Territory, a discovery that touches off the Klondike Gold Rush in the following year. 1807 Robert Fulton’s steamboat begins its successful round trip up the Hudson River from New York City to Albany, New York. The voyage of the north river steamboat, popularly known as the Clermont, revolutionizes American transportation in the 19th century. 1987 Rudolf Hess, the last member of Adolf Hitler’s inner circle in
Nazi10 Germany dies of an apparent suicide at age 93. Hess was the sole
inmate11 at Spandau Prison in what was then West Berlin, serving a life sentence for war crimes.
And 1943“You’re talking to me? You’re talking to me? You’re talking to me? I’m the only one here.”
Actor Robert de Niro is born in New York City. Among his films, Taxi Driver, The Godfather Part II, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, and
Analyze12 This. Today in History, August 17th, Sophia Manos, the Associated Press.
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