Pianist Brian Culbertson

Events in 1973 and 12-1

Events in US in the birth year of Brian Culbertson

• 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 Brian Culbertson (12-1) in history

• Day 12-1 year 1773: The first public museum in the United States was established in Charleston, South Carolina
• Day 12-1 year 1896: H. L. Smith took the first X-ray photograph. It was a hand with a bullet in it.
• Day 12-1 year 1915: The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.
• Day 12-1 year 1932: Hattie W. Caraway, a democrat from Arkansas became the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
• Day 12-1 year 1964: One month after Zanzibar became independent, the ruling Zanzibar Nationalist Party was overthrown in a violent coup.
• Day 12-1 year 1991: A divided Congress gave President Bush the go-ahead on the Persian Gulf War.
• Day 12-1 year 1998: Nineteen European countries signed an agreement banning human cloning.
• Day 12-1 year 2010: Haiti is dealt a catastrophic blow when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, the country's capital. It is the region's worst earthquake in 200 years. The number of fatalities were between 46,000 and 85,000 people.