Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Today is Feb. 12. "Monica-gate" ended, more or less, on this date in 1999 when the U.S. Senate acquitted President Clinton of impeachment charges. A bipartisan effort to censure Clinton failed as well. In a brief statement following the Senate vote, the president said he was "profoundly sorry" for his actions, and urged the country to move on. Monica Lewinsky moved on to design a line of handbags and appear in Jenny Craig ads. Advertisement Alexander Graham Bell's new invention, the telephone, was publicly demonstrated with a hookup between Boston and Salem, Mass., on this date in 1877. This paved the way for telemarketers, answering machines with stupid messages -- and phone sex. On this date in 1980, the International Olympic Committee rejected a U.S. proposal to postpone or cancel the 1980 Summer Games or move the site from Moscow as a protest against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In response, the United States and a number of other countries boycotted the games. Four years later, the Soviet Union and a number of other Communist countries boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics, which were held in Los Angeles. Advertisement As the 17th Olympic Winter Games opened in Norway on this date in 1994, the U.S. Olympic Committee agreed to allow Tonya Harding to compete in the women's figure skating competition, despite claims she was involved in the assault on rival skater Nancy Kerrigan the month before. Kerrigan also competed -- having recovered from the attack -- and won a silver medal. Harding could do no better than eighth place. And in 1964, the Beatles wrapped up the band's first U.S. tour with a show at New York's Carnegie Hall. We now return you to the present, already in progress.
