CNN Interactive - Almanac - September 11, 1998

I won't condone or participate in a political witchhunt. If the evidence does not justify a full impeachment investigation, I won't recommend one to the House; however if the evidence does justify an inquiry I will unhesitatingly recommend a fuller inquiry.

-- Rep. Henry Hyde, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

Lawmakers say sections of the independent counsel's impeachment report on President Clinton should be released to the public today.
President Clinton scheduled to address National Prayer Breakfast with religious leaders.
Attorneys for Microsoft and the Justice Department may return to court for a hearing on Microsoft's request for dismissal of antitrust case.
A medical ethics conference on "Doctors, Death and Dignity" is to begin in Chautauqua, New York.

On Saturday, September 12, Alfred Wolfram of Shakopee, Minnesota, attempts to break his current kissing record in the Guinness Book of World Records. He'll try to kiss more than 10,504 people today.
On Sunday, September 13, the 50th annual Emmy awards take place in Los Angeles.
On Monday, September 14, trial tentatively scheduled to begin in Pontiac, Michigan, in wrongful-death lawsuit against talk show host Jenny Jones.
On Tuesday, September 15, attorneys face deadline to file appeal on U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright's ruling to release President Clinton's deposition in the Paula Jones case.
On Wednesday, September 16, Hearing in Philadelphia for Marie Noe, charged with killing eight of her ten children.

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In 1297, The Scots under William Wallace defeated a large English force under the Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
In 1524, Pierre de Ronsard, one of the most prolific poets of the French Renaissance, was born.
In 1649, Oliver Cromwell, the leader of the victorious parliamentarians in the English Civil War, besieged Drogheda in Ireland and massacred most of the inhabitants.
In 1709, An Anglo-Dutch-Austrian force led by the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy won a costly victory over the French in the Battle of Malplaquet, the last great battle of the War of the Spanish Succession.
In 1777, British troops defeated American soldiers, led by Gen. George Washington, at the Battle of Brandywine Creek in the U.S. War of Independence.
In 1814, The U.S. Navy defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain.
In 1936, President Roosevelt dedicated Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) by pressing a key in Washington to signal the startup of the dam's first hydroelectric generator in Nevada.
In 1962, The Beatles finished recording their first single "Love Me Do".
In 1997, Scots voted in favor of a British government plan to give them their own assembly for the first time in nearly 300 years.