Today in History, August 17, 1998: President Clinton admitted 'improper physical relationship' with Monica Lewinsky

Today is Aug. 17. On this date:

1943

The Allied conquest of Sicily during World War II was completed as U.S. and British forces entered Messina.

1969

Hurricane Camille slammed into the Mississippi coast as a Category 5 storm that was blamed for 256 U.S. deaths, three in Cuba.

1982

The first commercially produced compact discs, a recording of ABBA’s “The Visitors,” were pressed at a Philips factory near Hanover, West Germany.

1987

Rudolf Hess, the last member of Adolf Hitler’s inner circle, died at Spandau Prison at age 93, an apparent suicide.

1996

The Reform Party announced Ross Perot had been selected to be its first presidential nominee.

1998

President Bill Clinton, in a taped grand jury testimony, admitted to having an “improper physical relationship” with intern Monica Lewinsky.

2013

The attorney for a young man who’d testified he was fondled by former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky said his client had reached a settlement, the first among dozens of claims made against the school amid the Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.