Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigned as Vice President and then, on the same day, plead no contest to income tax evasion, this baack in the day when such accusations would doom your position in office.
Angew was the son of a Greek immigrant father and an American mother of English background. Mixed marriages were unusual for those of Greek ethnicity in the first place and even more unusually, he was raised as an Episcopalian rather than as Greek Orthodox. He served in the Army during World War Two and entered politics thereafter.
His tax troubles lead Maryland to disbar him as "morally obtuse", back when there was such a thing as a state bar that would disbar somebody for being morally obtuse. He died in 1996.
The USSR began airlifting military equipment to Egypt and Syria.
The Senate passed the War Powers Act. It'd be vetoed, but Congress over road the veto.
Famed economist Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises died in New York at age 92.
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