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Wednesday, August 19, 1998
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After carefully reviewing the transcript of the speech [Monday] night, I have come to the unfortunate conclusion that the honorable step for the president is to resign to protect America and the presidency.
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John Ashcroft, Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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- U.S. President Bill Clinton celebrates his 52nd birthday.
- A funeral service is scheduled to be held in Lamar, Missouri, for Army Sgt. Kenneth Hobson II, one of 12 Americans killed in embassy bombings.
- On Thursday, August 20, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright departs for Santa Fe, New Mexico, to meet with the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations.
- On Friday, August 21, Cuban President Fidel Castro is to visit the Dominican Republic -- his first visit since coming to power in 1959.
- On Saturday, August 22, French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine visits Iran for top-level meetings.
- On Sunday, August 23, the World Conference on Volunteerism is scheduled to begin in Edmonton, Alberta.
- On Monday, August, 24, a trial is scheduled to be held in Kansas City, Missouri, for a woman claiming a radio talk show host defamed her by reporting that former Sen. Bob Dole helped her get an abortion in the early 1970s.
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America's Health Network is scheduled to broadcast live open-heart surgery on its Web site and cable TV channel. This is
the second in a series of such events by AHN, which broadcast a live birth in June. For your viewing pleasure, click here.
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- Today is Independence Day in Afghanistan.
- Author Ring Lardner Jr. ("M*A*S*H") is 83.
- Former jockey Willie Shoemaker is 67.
- Actress Diana Muldaur ("LA Law") is 60.
- Actress Jill St. John ("Hart to Hart") is 58.
- Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tennessee, is 56.
- U.S. President Bill Clinton is 52.
- Tipper Gore, wife of U.S. Vice President Al Gore, is 50.
- Actor Gerald McRaney ("Major Dad") is 50.
- Actor Jonathan Frakes ("Star Trek: The Next Generation") is 46.
- Political consultant Mary Matalin is 45.
- Actor Peter Gallagher ("Malice") is 43.
- Actor Adam Arkin ("Chicago Hope") is 42.
- Actor John Stamos ("Full House") is 35.
- Actress Kyra Sedgwick ("Singles") is 33.
- Actor Kevin Dillon ("The Doors") is 33.
- Country singer Lee Ann Womack is 32.
- MTV reporter Tabitha Soren is 31.
- Actor Matthew Perry ("Friends") is 29.
- Tennis player Mary Joe Fernandez is 27.
- Actor J. Evan Bonifant ("Blues Brothers 2000") is 13.
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- In 14, Augustus, the first Roman Emperor and adopted son of Julius Caesar, died.
- In 1477, Maximilian I, son of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, married Mary of Burgundy and acquired the Burgundian possessions in the Netherlands and France.
- In 1493, Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, died and was succeeded by Maximilian I.
- In 1561, Mary Queen of Scots arrived in Scotland to assume the throne after spending 13 years in France.
- In 1587, Sigismund III, son of John of Sweden, was elected King of Poland. He sought a union of Poland with Sweden but instead created hostility and war between the two.
- In 1601, Michael the Brave, Romanian national hero, was assassinated.
- In 1772, Gustav III seized effective control of the Swedish government and restored the full power of the monarchy which had been subordinate to parliament since 1720.
- In 1812, in the Anglo-American war of 1812, the U.S. warship Constitution defeated the British frigate Guerriere.
- In 1839, details of Louis Daguerre's first practical photographic process were released in Paris.
- In 1934, Germans voted to give Adolf Hitler the presidency in addition to being chancellor.
- In 1936, Federico Garcia Lorca, leading Spanish writer and poet, was shot dead by Fascists at the beginning of the civil war.
- In 1940, Italian troops forced the British to withdraw from Somaliland.
- In 1942, British and Canadian troops launched a disastrous attack on German-held Dieppe. Of the 6,000 troops involved, only about 2,500 returned. The rest were killed or captured.
- In 1953, Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq was overthrown in a coup in Iran. General Zahedi took over and the shah returned from exile in Italy.
- In 1960, the Soviet Sputnik 5 satellite was launched into Earth orbit carrying two dogs named Belka and Strelka.
- In 1960, Gary Powers, the U.S. spy plane pilot shot down by the Russians over Soviet territory, was sentenced to 10 years detention.
- In 1966, a severe earthquake in Turkey killed over 2,000.
- In 1973, George Papadopoulos was sworn in as president of Greece as the monarchy came to an end. He lifted martial law, in effect since 1967, but was overthrown in a coup in November.
- In 1974, Roger Davis, U.S. ambassador to Cyprus, was shot dead during anti-American demonstrations in Nicosia.
- In 1978, a fire in a theater set by Muslims extremists in Abadan, Iran, killed over 400 people.
- In 1979, Soviet Cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakov and Valery Ryumin returned to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 after a record 175 days in space.
- In 1980, 301 people died when fire swept through a Saudi Arabian airliner as it made an emergency landing at Riyadh airport.
- In 1987, in Britain's worst mass killing, gunman Michael Ryan shot dead 16 people during a rampage through Hungerford.
- In 1991, an abortive coup by hard-liners against Soviet President Gorbachev began. It collapsed two days later.
- In 1995, U.S. envoy Robert Frasure and three others were killed when their vehicle plunged off a road near Sarajevo.
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