Volume 13 , Issue 32

This Day In History (August 8)

On this day, August 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon announced he would resign following damaging revelations in the Watergate scandal. It was August 8, 1974, Washington, DC, that Richard Milhous Nixon (37th President) announced that he had given up his long arduous fight to remain in office and would resign, effective at noon the next day, August 9, 1974.

On August 8, 1896, Marjorie Rawlings, an American author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Yearling, was born. Following her death on December 14, 1953, her obituary appeared in THe Times. Got to Obituary.

• 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for St. Helena, in the South Atlantic, to spend the remainder of his days in exile.
• 1844 - Brigham Young was chosen to lead the Mormons following the killing of Joseph Smith.
• 1876 - Thomas A. Edison received a patent for the mimeograph.
• 1945 - President Harry S. Truman signed the United Nations Charter.
• 1945 - The Soviet Union declared war against Japan during World War II.
• 1963 - Britain's "Great Train Robbery" took place as thieves made off with 2.6 million pounds in banknotes from a train they stopped north of London.

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