CAMILLE BOHANNON

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.

MIKE  GRACIA

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)

SANDY KOZEL

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.  

On August 17, 1998, President Bill Clinton (above) become the first sitting
president to testify before the Office of Independent Council as the subject
of a grand-jury investigation.

The testimony came after a four-year investigation into Clinton and his wife
Hillary’s alleged involvement in several scandals, including accusations of
sexual harassment, potentially illegal real-estate deals and suspected
“cronyism” involved in the firing of White House travel-agency personnel.

The independent prosecutor, Kenneth Starr, then uncovered an affair
between Clinton and a White House intern named Monica Lewinsky,
when questioned about the affair, Clinton denied it, which led Starr to
charge the president with perjury and obstruction of justice, which in
turn prompted his testimony on August 17.

President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office, 1997.

TIM MAGUIRE

North Korea invaded South Korea initiating the Korean War on this
day in 1950.