On October 10, 1973, after months of maintaining his innocence, Agnew pleaded no contest to a single felony charge of tax evasion and resigned from office. He was replaced by House Minority Leader Gerald Ford (below).
Gerald Ford (center) was sworn in as Vice President Ford.
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985)
Wells is best remembered for the legendary 1938 radio broadcast of “The War of the Worlds’’, and in film, Citizen Kane (1941), consistently ranked as one of the greatest films ever made.
On this day in 1974, President Gerald Ford announced a conditional amnesty program for draft-evaders and deserters during the Vietnam War.
In west Beirut on this day in 1982, the massacre of hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children began in refugee camps of the Lebanese Christian militiamen.
On this day in 1998, President Clinton denied having an affair with a former White House intern, saying "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
President Clinton with Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office.
The first European settlers in Australia, led by Captain Arthur Phillip, landed in what became known as Sydney on this day in 1788. The group had first settled at Botany Bay eight days before. This day is celebrated as Australia Day.
Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 – April 5, 1964)
Wayne Gretzky is a Canadian born former professional ice hockey player and former head coach. He played twenty seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for four teams from 1979 to 1999. Nicknamed "The Great One", he has been called "the greatest hockey player ever"by many sportswriters, players, and the league itself.
The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Phantom of the Opera" opened at Broadway’s Majestic Theater on this day in 1988.
On this day in 1968, three Apollo 8 astronauts, James A. Lovell, William Anders and Frank Borman, reached the moon. They orbited the moon 10 times before coming back to Earth. Seven months later man first landed on the moon.
From left: astronauts William A. Anders, James A. Lovell Jr. and Frank Borman.
Several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski, TN, called the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) on this day in 1865 and still exists today.
Canadian born Reginald A. Fessenden (above) became the first person to broadcast a human voice and music program over radio, from Brant Rock, MA.
On this day in 1871, In Cairo, Egypt, Giuseppe Verdi’s opera "Aida" had its world premiere at the Khedivial Opera House.
UN War Crimes panel tries Slobodan Melosevic for genocide in Bosnia.
Ukraine’s Viktor Yanukovych declares win in disputed vote on this date in 2004. He was poisoned during the election campaign when it was confirmed that he ingested hazardous amounts of TCDD, the most potent dioxin and a contaminant in Agent Orange.
He suffered disfigurement as a result of the poisoning, but he has since made made a full physical recovery (below).
The first edition of "Life" magazine was hit the newsstands on this day in 1936. The cover depicted the Fort Peck Dam in Montana.
Henry Robinson Luce (April 3, 1898 – February 28, 1967)
Luce was a magazine magnate who was called “the most influential private citizen in America of his day".
On this day in 1903, Italian operatic tenor Enrico Caruso made his U.S. debut with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in "Rigoletto."He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and America, appearing in a wide variety of roles from the Italian and French repertoires that ranged from the lyric to the dramatic.
