The Senate Watergate hearings open
1973 · Event
Senator Sam Ervin's committee begins televised hearings that transfix the country all summer. John Dean testifies that he warned Nixon of 'a cancer on the presidency' — and that the president himself was running the cover-up. The question becomes Howard Baker's: what did the president know, and when did he know it?
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- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Resignation of Richard Nixon (1974)
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- The Saturday Night Massacre (1973)
- Supreme Court orders Nixon to surrender the tapes (1974)
- Butterfield reveals the White House tapes (1973)
- Woodward and Bernstein follow the money (1972)
Around 1973
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- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)