A bit of August 17th history… 1590 - Governor of Roanoke Island...
A bit of August 17th history…
1590 - Governor of Roanoke Island colony, John White, returns from England to find no trace of the colonists he left there 3 years earlier
1903 - Joe Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia University and begins the Pulitzer prizes in America
1979 - Monty Python’s “Life of Brian” premiers
1982 - 1st compact discs (CDs) released to public in Germany
1998 - Monica Lewinsky Scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony he had an “improper physical relationship” with the intern, and on the same day admits before the nation he “misled people” about the relationship
2012 - Gay pride events are banned for a century in Moscow
2017 - Collision of 2 neutron stars witnessed for the 1st time - picked up by US based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) (pictured)
A bit of August 17th history… 1590 - Governor of Roanoke Island...