TV actor Jorge Garcia

Events in 1973 and 28-4

Events in US in the birth year of Jorge Garcia

• 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 Jorge Garcia (28-4) in history

• Day 28-4 year 1788: Maryland became the 7th state in the United States.
• Day 28-4 year 1789: Sailor Fletcher Christian led a mutiny aboard the British ship Bounty against Captain William Bligh.
• Day 28-4 year 1945: Benito Mussolini was executed.
• Day 28-4 year 1947: Thor Heyerdahl and five others began their Pacific Ocean crossing on the raft, Kon-Tiki.
• Day 28-4 year 1967: Boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the Army.
• Day 28-4 year 1992: The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture unveiled its first “food pyramid.”
• Day 28-4 year 2001: Dennis Tito became the first space tourist.
• Day 28-4 year 2004: The Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal first comes to light when graphic photos of U.S. soldiers physically abusing and humiliating Iraqi prisoners were shown on CBS's 60 Minutes II.