Boxing athlete Lamon Brewster

Events in 1973 and 5-6

Events in US in the birth year of Lamon Brewster

• Nixon, on national TV, accepts responsibility, but not blame, for Watergate; accepts resignations of H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, fires John W. Dean III as counsel (April 30).
• Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice President and then pleads no contest to charges of evasion of income taxes while Governor of Maryland (Oct. 10).
• In the "Saturday Night Massacre," Nixon fires special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus; Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson resigns (Oct. 20).
• US Supreme Court rules on Roe v. Wade.

Birthday Lamon Brewster (5-6) in history

• Day 5-6 year 1783: Inventors Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier first flew in a hot air balloon they invented successfully.
• Day 5-6 year 1884: Civil War hero Gen. William T. Sherman refused the Republican nomination for president with the words, “I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.”
• Day 5-6 year 1933: The United States went off the gold standard.
• Day 5-6 year 1947: Sen. George Marshall proposed a plan (Marshall Plan) to help Europe recover financially from the effects of World War II.
• Day 5-6 year 1967: The Arab-Israeli Six-Day War began.
• Day 5-6 year 1968: Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot by an assassin and died the next day.
• Day 5-6 year 1981: The Centers for Disease Control published the first report about the disease that would later become known as AIDS.
• Day 5-6 year 2002: Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City home.
• Day 5-6 year 2004: Former president Ronald Reagan died.
• Day 5-6 year 2013: The British newspaper the Guardian published the first of many stories based on leaks by Edward Snowden about the top-secret surveillance activities of the National Security Agency.