This is the day of history: on September 8 Ford pardons Nixon
Today in History
Today is Thursday, Sept. 8, the 251st day of 2022. There are 114 days remaining during the course of the year.
Today in History
Today is Thursday, Sept. 8, the 251st day of 2022. There are 114 days remaining during the course of the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On September. 8 on the 8th of September 1974 on Sept. 8, 1974, The president Gerald R. Ford granted an "full, free, and absolute pardon" to the former the president Richard Nixon covering his entire term as president.
This date:
The year was 1504, and Michelangelo's imposing sculpture of marble David was revealed to the general public within Florence, Italy.
In 1565 in 1565, an Spanish team established the first European colony at the southernmost tip of North America at present-day St. Augustine, Florida.
In 1664 in 1664, in 1664, the Dutch gave up New Amsterdam to the British and they renamed it New York.
It was in 1900 that Galveston, Texas, was hit by a storm that claimed the lives of 8000 people.
In 1941 the 990-day Siege of Leningrad by German forces started in World War II.
In 1943, in World War II, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower declared the surrender of Italy. Nazi Germany protested against Italy's surrender as a cowardly decision.
A peace agreement in 1951 with Japan is signed in the city of San Francisco.
Today's Birthdays: Ventriloquist Willie Tyler is 82. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is 81. Actor Alan Feinstein is 81. Singer and songwriter Sal Valentino (The Beau Brummels) is aged 80.
Author Ann Beattie is 75. Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis is 72. Cajun performer Zachary Richard (ree-SHARD') is 72. Musician Will Lee is 70.