On August 19, 1934, Adolf Hitler, already chancellor, is
also elected president of Germany in an unprecedented
consolidation of power in the short history of the republic. 

On August 13, 1981, at his California home Rancho del Cielo,
Ronald Reagan signed the Economic Recovery Tax Act (ERTA),
a package of tax and budget reductions that set the tone for his administration’s trickle-down economic policy.

The Judiciary Committee Impeachment Panel gathered to 
hear evidence in the Watergate affair, eventually leading 
to the impeachment of President Nixon. From left to right,
Donohue, Rodino and Hutchinson.

On July 27, 1974, the House Judiciary Committee recommended
America’s 37th president, Richard M. Nixon, be impeached and
removed from office.

The impeachment proceedings resulted from a series of political scandals involving the Nixon administration that came to be
collectively known as Watergate.

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994)