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Politics : Idea Of The Day
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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48836)8/8/2005 7:23:32 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (1) of 50167
 
August 8

U.S. President Nixon announced resignation
Button from Richard M. Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign.


1974: Faced with the near certainty of impeachment for his role in the Watergate Scandal, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announced his resignation from office on this day.

1963: Armed robbers stole £2.6 million from the Glasgow-London Royal Mail Train near Bridego Bridge, north of London, in the Great Train Robbery.
1945: The Nürnberg trials were authorized by the London Agreement, signed by the United States, Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France.
1907: American jazz musician Benny Carter was born in New York City.
1846: The Wilmot Proviso, an attempt to prohibit the extension of slavery to new territories in the United States, was proposed; in the debate that followed, the Republican Party was born.
1588: The English fleet won a decisive battle over the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines in northern France.
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