On October 10, 1973, Spiro Agnew, serving under President Nixon, became the
second Vice President to resign the office. He pled no contest to criminal charges
of tax evasion after resigning. As a result of his no contest plea, the State of
Maryland later disbarred Agnew, calling him "morally obtuse". In 1832, Vice
President John C. Calhoun, while serving under Andrew Jackson, resigned
the office to take a seat in the U.S. Senate.

Spiro Agnew and President Richard Nixon

Dick Tracy is a comic strip featuring police detective Dick Tracy.The strip was created
by cartoonist Chester Gould (shown below) and made its debut on Sunday October 4, 1931 in the Detroit Mirror. It was distributed by the Chicago Tribune New York
Syndicate. Gould wrote and drew the strip until 1977.

Chester Gould in 1932

Toy Dick Tracy squad car

 

Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday comic strip written and illustrated
by Charles M. Schulz (above), which ran from Sunday October 2, 1950, to
February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward. The strip is considered
to be one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium,
with 17,897 strips published in all. Schulz died February 12, 2000.

The Addams Family is a 30-minute ABC television series, shot in black and white,
that aired for two seasons from September 18, 1964 to April 8, 1966. The show
was based on the characters in Charles Addams’ New Yorker panel cartoons
(below) which were first published in 1938.

The comic strip Blondie has been published by King Features Syndicate in
newspapers around the country since Monday, September 8, 1930. The strip
features Blondie Bumstead and her sandwich-loving husband Dagwood. Chic
Young (below) drew Blondie until his death in 1973, and the duties were then
passed on to his son Dean Young, who continues to write the strip today. The
strip has remained popular, appearing in more than 2,000 newspapers in 47
countries and translated into 35 languages.

Chic Young

Dean Young