

Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun (Moseley-Braun)
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC. on this day in 1982, after a march to its site by thousands
of Vietnam War veterans. About two years later the Three
Soldiers statue was dedicated.

On this day in 1947, Howard Hughes flew his "Spruce Goose," a
huge wooden airplane, for eight minutes in California. It was the
plane’s first and only flight. The "Spruce Goose," nicknamed
because of the white-gray color of the spruce used to build it,
never went into production.
Howard Robard Hughes Jr.
(December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976)

Horror author Stephen Edwin King is 72 today.
1980 1990
President Bill Clinton lies about his relationship with Monica
Lewinsky during his televised testimony before a grand jury.


