Right now is Saturday, Aug. 17, the 230th day of 2024. There are 136 days left within the 12 months.
Right now in historical past:
On August 17, 1998, President Invoice Clinton gave grand jury testimony by way of closed-circuit tv from the White Home regarding his relationship with Monica Lewinsky; he then delivered a TV deal with during which he admitted his relationship with Lewinsky was “fallacious” however denied beforehand committing perjury (Clinton was subsequently impeached by the Home of Representatives, however acquitted within the Senate).
Additionally on this date:
In 1807, Robert Fulton’s North River Steamboat made its first voyage, heading up the Hudson River on a profitable spherical journey between New York Metropolis and Albany.
In 1863, federal batteries and ships started bombarding Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor through the Civil Conflict, however the Confederates managed to carry on regardless of a number of days of shelling.
In 1915, a mob in Cobb County, Georgia, lynched Jewish businessman Leo Frank, 31, whose dying sentence for the homicide of 13-year-old Mary Phagan had been commuted to life imprisonment. (Frank, who’d maintained his innocence, was pardoned by the state of Georgia in 1986.)
In 1945, Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaimed independence for Indonesia, setting off the Indonesian Nationwide Revolution towards Dutch rule.
In 1945, the George Orwell novel “Animal Farm,” an allegorical satire of Soviet Communism, was first printed in London by Martin Secker & Warburg.
In 1959, trumpeter Miles Davis launched “Type of Blue,” thought to be one of the crucial influential jazz albums of all time.
In 1978, the primary profitable trans-Atlantic balloon flight ended as Maxie Anderson, Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman landed their Double Eagle II outdoors Paris.
In 1988, Pakistani President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel (RAY’-fehl) have been killed in a mysterious aircraft crash.
In 1999, greater than 17,000 folks have been killed when a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck the Kocaeli Province of Turkey.
Right now’s Birthdays:
- Pc scientist Margaret Hamilton is 88.
- Actor Robert DeNiro is 81.
- Businessman Larry Ellison is 80.
- Movie director Martha Coolidge is 78.
- Filmmaker/creator Julian Fellowes is 75.
- Tennis Corridor of Famer Guillermo Vilas is 72.
- Singer Belinda Carlisle is 66.
- Writer Jonathan Franzen is 65.
- Actor Sean Penn is 64.
- Singer/actor Donnie Wahlberg is 55.
- School Basketball Corridor of Famer and retired NBA All-Star Christian Laettner is 55.
- Rapper Posdnuos (PAHS’-deh-noos) (De La Soul) is 55.
- Tennis Corridor of Famer Jim Courier is 54.
- Soccer nice Thierry Henry is 47.
- Rock climber Alex Honnold is 39.
- Actor Austin Butler is 33.
- Singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers is 30.
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