August 17th
Today in America's Present Past
1785 | Revolutionary War hero Jonathan Trumbull died.
1786 | Frontiersman Davy Crockett was born.
1870 | Physician Frederick F. Russell was born.
1882 | Director Samuel Goldwyn was born.
1887 | Activist Marcus Garvey was born.
1893 | Actress Mae West was born.
1896 | General Leslie Groves was born.
1903 | Joseph Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia University and began the Pulitzer Prizes.
1913 | Law enforcement official Mark Felts was born.
1915 | Civil Rights: Mob lynches Leo Frank in Cobb County, Georgia.
1920 | Actress Maureen O’Hara was born.
1929 | Aviator Gary Powers was born.
1935 | Author and activist Charlotte Perkins Gilman died.
1936 | Scientist Margaret Hamilton was born.
1943 | Actor Robert DeNiro was born.
1944 | Entrepreneur Larry Ellison was born.
1958 | Entertainer Belinda Carlisle was born.
1959 | Author Jonathan Franzen was born.
1960 | Actor Sean Penn was born.
1969 | Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe died.
1969 | Entertainer Donnie Wahlberg was born.
1973 | Poet Conrad Aiken died.
1983 | Composer Ira Gershwin died.
1996 | Socialist Edward Digby Baltzell died.
1998 | POTUS: Democrat President Clinton reverses his story and admits to an inappropriate relationship with intern Monica Lewinsky.
2000 | Rapper Lil Pump was born.
2013 | Poet John Hollander died.