Football player Lawyer Milloy

Events in 1973 and 14-11

Events in US in the birth year of Lawyer Milloy

• 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 Lawyer Milloy (14-11) in history

• Day 14-11 year 1851: Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick has been published.
• Day 14-11 year 1889: Nellie Bly set out to beat Jules Verne's fictional Phileas Fogg's time of 80 days to travel around the world. She did it in 72.
• Day 14-11 year 1922: The British Broadcasting Corporation began its domestic radio service.
• Day 14-11 year 1969: Apollo 12, the second manned lunar expedition, was launched.
• Day 14-11 year 1995: The U.S. federal government began a partial shut down of government services after the U.S. Congress could not pass a budget.
• Day 14-11 year 2002: Nancy Pelosi of California became the first woman to lead a party in Congress.
• Day 14-11 year 2003: The most distant object ever found in our solar system, named Sedna, was discovered by astronomers at the Mount Palomar Observatory.