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House Judiciary Committee opens televised impeachment hearings against Nixon

Watergate evidence goes before the cameras today, with the president's political survival and a historic first removal from office both now in the balance.

In July 1974, the House Judiciary Committee began televised impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon, marking a historic moment in American governance. The nation watched as evidence of Nixon's involvement in the Watergate cover-up was laid bare. With the president's political survival hanging by a thread, the hearings threatened to unseat a sitting president for the first time in U.S. history…

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Unemployment hits 14.7 percent; 20 million jobs vanish in seven weeks

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2022

Biden signs Lend-Lease revival on Soviet Victory Day; weapons pipeline to Ukraine widens

The law cuts red tape on arms shipments to Kyiv, reviving the same World War II program that once armed Britain and the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany.
1955

West Germany joins NATO; a former enemy is now the alliance's eastern front against Moscow

Bonn gains full sovereignty and enters the Atlantic pact today, putting Western troops and nuclear guarantees on the Soviet Union's doorstep.
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With Lee already gone, the general rides into Gainesville, Alabama, and lays down his arms rather than fight on for a cause with no government left to serve.
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1972

Nixon signs 37 words into law; no federal program may turn away a student on the basis of sex

Senator Birch Bayh's passage, buried in the Education Amendments of 1972, draws almost no public attention at the signing.
1972

Nixon tells Haldeman to use the CIA to block the FBI's Watergate inquiry

Six days after the break-in at Democratic headquarters, the Oval Office recording system captures the President invoking national security to shut down investigators.
1948

Stalin seals Berlin; two million people are cut off from the West

Soviet forces close all rail and barge routes into the Western sectors, 110 miles inside Soviet territory, over the Allies' plan to introduce the Deutsche Mark.
1950

North Korean guns open on the 38th parallel at dawn; Seoul has no tanks to stop them

Kim Il Sung's forces pour south into an almost entirely unprepared country; the U.N. Security Council condemns the invasion, and Truman moves toward committing U.S. troops.
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