President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over tape recordings and documents that had been subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee. Marking the beginning of the end of his Presidency, Nixon would resign from office in disgrace eight months later.
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Jan 4, 1974:
President Nixon refuses to hand over tapes
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This Week in History, Jan 4 - Jan 10
- Jan 04, 1896
- Utah enters the Union
- Jan 04, 1974
- President Nixon refuses to hand over tapes
- Jan 04, 1987
- Segovia begins final U.S. tour
- Jan 04, 1995
- 104th Congress under Republican control
- Jan 05, 1643
- First divorce in the colonies
- Jan 05, 1895
- Dreyfus Affair in France
- Jan 05, 1945
- Kamikaze pilots get first order
- Jan 05, 1968
- Prague Spring begins in Czechoslovakia
- Jan 05, 1976
- Pol Pot renames Cambodia
- Jan 05, 1994
- Former Speaker Thomas P. Tip O'Neill dies
- Jan 06, 1066
- Harold II crowned king of England
- Jan 06, 1912
- New Mexico joins the Union
- Jan 06, 1925
- Nurmi breaks two world records
- Jan 06, 2001
- Congress certifies Bush winner of 2000 elections
- Jan 07, 1785
- Across the English Channel in a balloon
- Jan 07, 1979
- Pol Pot overthrown
- Jan 07, 1989
- Emperor Hirohito dies
- Jan 07, 1999
- Clinton impeachment trial begins
- Jan 08, 1642
- Astronomer Galileo dies in Italy
- Jan 08, 1815
- The Battle of New Orleans
- Jan 08, 1867
- Congress expands suffrage in nation's capital
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- Wilson announces his 14 Points
- Jan 08, 1962
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- Jan 09, 1972
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- Jan 10, 1920
- League of Nations instituted
- Jan 10, 1922
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- Jan 10, 1923
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