08-17-2004, 01:45 AM
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August 17th
1601 ~ Birthday of Pierre de Fermat, Mathematician.
1786 ~ Birthday of Davy Crockett, Frontiersman, Soldier.
1807 ~ Robert Fulton's first American steamboat, the Clermont, left New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
1882 ~ Birthday of Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood producer.
1911 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Botvinnik, World Chess Champion.
1915 ~ Jewish American Leo Frank was lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta, Georgia.
1929 ~ Birthday of Francis Gary Powers, U-2 pilot.
1960 ~ Gabon gained independence from France.
1962 ~ East German border guards killed 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempted to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin. Mr. Fecher thus became, at the tender age of 18, the most famous of the victims of the Berlin Wall.
1998 ~ Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admitted in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day he admitted before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship.
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