On Aug. 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon announced he would resign following damaging revelations in the Watergate scandal.
On Aug. 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, giving President Johnson broad powers in dealing with reported North Vietnamese attacks on United States forces.
On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II, killing an estimated 140,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20050808.html
No comments:
Post a Comment