TV actress Arden Myrin

Events in 1973 and 10-12

Events in US in the birth year of Arden Myrin

• 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 Arden Myrin (10-12) in history

• Day 10-12 year 1817: Mississippi became the 20th state in the United States.
• Day 10-12 year 1869: The territory of Wyoming authorized women to vote and hold office.
• Day 10-12 year 1901: The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace.
• Day 10-12 year 1948: The United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
• Day 10-12 year 1950: Dr. Ralph Bunche became the first black to receive a Nobel Peace Prize.
• Day 10-12 year 1964: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., received the Nobel Peace Prize.
• Day 10-12 year 1999: Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee was arrested and charged with stealing classified information.
• Day 10-12 year 2004: A U.S. passenger jet landed in Vietnam, the first one to do so since the Vietnam War ended nearly three decades earlier.