TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

August 17, 1915

A mob in Cobb County, Georgia, lynched Jewish businessman Leo Frank, 31, whose death sentence for the murder of 13-yearold Mary Phagan had been commuted to life imprisonment. (Frank was pardoned by the state of Georgia in 1986.)

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1982

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

1998

President Bill Clinton gave grand jury testimony via closed-circuit television from the White House concerning his relationship with Monica Lewinsky; he then delivered a TV address in which he denied previously committing perjury, admitted his relationship with Lewinsky was “wrong,” and criticized Kenneth Starr’s investigation.