Resignation of Richard Nixon
1974 · Event
Facing certain impeachment over the Watergate cover-up, Nixon becomes the only US President to resign. Gerald Ford is sworn in the same day and pardons Nixon a month later.
On these timelines: Watergate, Master, USA
More from Watergate
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Break-in at the Watergate (1972)
- The 'smoking gun' tape is released (1974)
- The Saturday Night Massacre (1973)
- Supreme Court orders Nixon to surrender the tapes (1974)
- The Senate Watergate hearings open (1973)
- Butterfield reveals the White House tapes (1973)
- Woodward and Bernstein follow the money (1972)
Around 1974
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)