Today In History – Nixon Resigns

IN HISTORY ON THIS DATE - August 8th:

1974 - US President Richard Nixon announces he'll resign his office 12PM Aug 9 - 40 years ago today
1990 - Pete Rose begins 5-ms prison term at Marion (IL) Federal prison camp

HAPPY BIRTHDAY / ANNIVERSARY TO:

1932 - Mel Tillis, Pahokee Fl, country singer (Who's Julie, M-M-Mel)
1937 - Dustin Hoffman, LA, actor (Graduate, Tootsie, Kramer vs Kramer)
1949 - Keith Carradine, San Mateo California, actor (Young Guns, Pretty Baby)
1953 - Don Most, Brooklyn, New York, American actor and director (Ralph Malph-Happy Days)

GOODBYE TO:

1969 - Sharon Tate, murdered by the Manson family at 26
1984 - Richard Deacon, actor (Mel Cooley-Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 62
2005 - Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (b. 1922)
2013 - Karen Black, American actress, dies from ampullary cancer at 74

To see more historical events that happened this date, visit: http://www.historyorb.com/day/august/8

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