Wednesday, August 17, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

AUGUST 17
1998:President Bill Clinton testifies before the Office of Independent Counsel and a federal grand jury, admitting to an inappropriate relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinksy. In a televised address the same evening, he apologizes for misleading the American people but denies that he lied or obstructed justice.

1908: French artist Émile Cohl premieres Fantasmagorie, the first fully animated feature, at the Theatre de Gymnase in Paris. The silent film features 700 morphing stick-figure drawings and runs for less than two minutes.

1987: Ninety-three-year-old Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's deputy at the start of World War II, is found dead of an apparent suicide in Spandau Prison in West Berlin, where he had been the lone inmate since 1966.

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