TODAY IN HISTORY: He saved thousands of lives, then vanished forever
A Swedish diplomat credited with saving the lives of thousands of Jews in German-occupied Hungary was arrested by the Soviet army and disappeared on January 17, 1945.
Raoul Wallenberg saved the lives of thousands of Jewish Hungarians during the last year of World War II.
Wallenberg rented 32 buildings in Budapest and declared them extraterritorial property protected by diplomatic immunity.
With large Swedish flags hung on the outside, the buildings were instead used to house nearly 10,000 Jews.
Wallenberg was brazen in his methods to save people being sent to the death camps.
In one instance he climbed on the roof of a train bound for Auschwitz and handed out dozens of Swedish passports.
Wallenberg had been inspired after watching a 1941 British film called Pimpernel Smith.
In the film, the main character saved 28 Jews from the Nazis.
"That is the kind of thing I would like to do," Wallenberg said to his wife.
Days after the Red Army seized Budapest, Wallenberg was arrested by the occupying Soviets.
His last known sighting was by a fellow prisoner on March 1, 1945.
In 1957, the Soviet government announced he had died of a heart attack or heart failure in 1947, but was cremated without autopsy.
An investigation in 1991 concluded Wallenberg was executed while a prisoner, possibly by poison.
Website The Drudge Report broke the news that President Bill Clinton had a sexual relationship with a 23-year-old intern on January 17, 1998.
The report was angled on claims Newsweek magazine had killed the story about Clinton and the intern.
The article marked the first time a major breaking story was first reported on the internet.
The next day The Drudge Report named the intern as Monica Lewinsky, and then published her CV.
Lewinsky was "proficient in Macintosh for Microsoft Word 6.0, WordPerfect for Windows, and Infosys", the website reported.
The first US prisoner to be executed after the death penalty was reinstated was killed by firing squad on January 17, 1977.
Murderer Gary Gilmore was unusual in that he actively opposed efforts to spare his life.
Gilmore said he wanted anti-death penalty activists to "butt out".
"This is my life and this is my death. It's been sanctioned by the courts that I die and I accept that," he said.
His last words were: "Let's do it."
Under Utah law, one person in the five-member firing squad would unknowingly be firing a blank.
This way, no-one would know for sure if they had killed the prisoner.
But when his brother looked at his body, he found there were five bullet holes in his shirt.
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