August 17th, 1969:
Hurricane Camille slammed into the Gulf Coast, making landfall just east of the mouth of the Mississippi River.
The category 5 storm left more than 250 people deceased, more than 35 years before hurricane Katrina devastated the region.
1998:
President Bill Clinton: "They did not constitute sexual relations as I understood that term to be defined."
In Washington, President Bill Clinton faced federal grand jury questioning in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. That's where he finally admitted his past relationship with the former White House intern.
Afterwards, Clinton told the American people: "Indeed I did have a relationship with Ms. Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and the personal failure, on my part, for which I am solely and completely responsible."
1896:
"There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men that toil for gold."
Prospectors found gold in Canada's Yukon territory. A discovery that touched off the Klondike Gold Rush in the following year.
1807:
Robert Fulton's steamboat began its successful round trip of the Hudson River, from New York City to Albany in New York.
The voyage of the North River Steamboat, popularly known as the Clermont, revolutionised American transportation in the 19th century.
1987:
Rudolf Hess, the last member of Adolf Hitler's inner core in Nazi Germany, died of apparent suicide at the age of 93.
Hess was the sole inmate at Spandau Prison in what was then west Berlin, serving a life sentence for war crimes.
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