Modern Era · North America · Politics

1974

Nixon resigns

August 9, 1974

Facing impeachment over Watergate, Richard Nixon appeared on national television to announce that he would resign the presidency the next day at noon. He boarded Marine One on the South Lawn, flashed his awkward double-victory sign, and flew home to California. A constitutional crisis had been resolved without violence, barely.

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In context

Also in 1974 (5 other events on record)

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Before and after in North America

Before: April 3, 1973: First mobile phone call
After: 1975: Microsoft and Apple begin

Before and after in Politics

Before: October 17, 1973: OPEC oil embargo
After: April 17, 1975: Khmer Rouge take Phnom Penh

Era

Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Richard Nixon