Football coach Pat Fitzgerald

Events in 1974 and 2-12

Events in US in the birth year of Pat Fitzgerald

• Patricia Hearst, 19-year-old daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army (Feb. 5).
• House Judiciary Committee adopts three articles of impeachment charging President Nixon with obstruction of justice, failure to uphold laws, and refusal to produce material subpoenaed by the committee (July 30).
• Richard M. Nixon announces he will resign the next day, the first President to do so (Aug. 8).
• Vice President Gerald R. Ford of Michigan is sworn in as 38th President of the US (Aug. 9).
• Ford grants "full, free, and absolute pardon" to ex-President Nixon (Sept. 8).

Birthday Pat Fitzgerald (2-12) in history

• Day 2-12 year 1804: Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of France in Paris.
• Day 2-12 year 1823: President James Monroe outlined his famous doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.
• Day 2-12 year 1859: Abolitionist John Brown was hanged for his raid on Harper's Ferry.
• Day 2-12 year 1942: The first controlled nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated at the University of Chicago.
• Day 2-12 year 1954: The Senate voted to condemn Republican senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
• Day 2-12 year 1970: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established.
• Day 2-12 year 1982: Barney B. Clark became the first person to receive an artificial heart in a transplant operation.
• Day 2-12 year 1988: Benazir Bhutto was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head an Muslim nation.
• Day 2-12 year 1990: Composer Aaron Copland died at age 90.
• Day 2-12 year 1999: A Protestant and Catholic cabinet convened for the first time in Northern Ireland.
• Day 2-12 year 2001: Enron Corp., under CEO Kenneth Lay, filed for bankruptcy.