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Richard M. Nixon dies at age 81

Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so. By late 1973, the Watergate scandal escalated, costing Nixon much of his political support. On August 9, 1974, he resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office.

Version 1.0 of the Mosaic web browser is released

NCSA Mosaic was the 1st web browser with the ability to display text and images inline, meaning you could put pictures and text on the same page together, in the same window. At the time of its release, NCSA Mosaic was available only on Unix. Windows and Mac versions came in late 1993.

Concentration camp at Sachsenhausen is liberated

Sachsenhausen was a Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners. The camp's remaining 3,000 inmates, including 1,400 women were liberated by the Red Army and the Polish Army's 2nd Infantry Division in April 1945. The campground with the remaining buildings is now open to the public as a museum.

Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin is born

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia and of the Soviet Union. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party.

Anniversaries of the (in)famous

born 1982

Kaká

born 1936

Glen Campbell

born 1969

Dion Dublin

born 1946

John Waters