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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:52 am Post subject:

Jul 20, Turkey invaded Cyprus.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:52 am Post subject:

Jul 24, The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:53 am Post subject:

Jul 29, The 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon was by the House Judiciary Committee.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:53 am Post subject:

Aug 5, President Richard Nixon admitted that he ordered a cover-up of the Watergate break-in for political as well as national security reasons. He was forced to release tapes that proved he had ordered a cover-up, which became know as the "smoking gun."
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:53 am Post subject:

Aug 7, French stuntman Philippe Petit walked a tightrope strung between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. In 2002 Petit authored "To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers." In 2003 Steven Galloway authored "Ascension," a novel that featured a fictional Gypsy tightrope walker named Ursari, who makes a final, fateful skywalk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on July 4, 1976.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:54 am Post subject:

Aug 8, President Nixon announced he would resign his office 12PM Aug 9, following damaging revelations in the Watergate scandal.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:54 am Post subject:

Aug 12, Amok's 12th birthday Very Happy

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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:55 am Post subject:

Aug 26, Charles Lindbergh (72), the first man to fly solo, nonstop across the Atlantic, died at his home in Hawaii.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:56 am Post subject:

Sep 8, President Gerald Ford pardoned former President Richard M. Nixon for any crimes arising from the Watergate scandal he may have committed while in office.

Sep 8, Evel Knievel (b.1938) attempted to jump the Snake River Canyon in Idaho on his rocket-powered motorcycle. He failed and parachuted down.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:59 am Post subject:

Sep 26, The NYT published a front page article on the impact of the chlorofluorocarbon, used in aerosols, on the ozone.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 5:00 am Post subject:

Sep 28, In the Netherlands the French embassy at the Hague was taken over by Japanese Red Army militants. A 4-day standoff ended with the release of comrade Yutaka Suyaka from a French jail.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 5:01 am Post subject:

Oct 9, Czech-born German businessman Oskar Schindler, credited with saving about 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, died in Frankfurt, West Germany; at his request, he was buried in Jerusalem.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 5:01 am Post subject:

Oct 25, The US Air Force fired its 1st ICBM.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 5:02 am Post subject:

Oct 30, The film "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" was released in Los Angeles.
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