On this day in 1998, President Clinton admitted to having an
improper relationship with Monica Lewinsky, a White House
intern.

The Klondike gold rush was set off by George Carmack (below) who
discovered gold on Rabbit Creek in Alaska.

George Washington Carmack,
from California.

Robert Fulton’s "North River Steam Boat" (known as the "Clermont") began heading up New York’s Hudson River on its successful round-
trip to Albany on this day in 1807.

Robert Fulton 
(11-14-1765 – 2-24-1815

It happened on this day in 1987.

Rudolf Walter Richard Hess 
(April 26, 1894 – August 17, 1987) 

Robert Anthony De Niro is 74 years old today.

Legendary actor Robert De Niro won an Academy Award for Best Actor for
his role as Jake LaMotta in the 1980 boxing film Raging Bull and an Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Vito Corleone in the 1974
classic The Godfather Part II.

2001