Nixon Dies: Watergate's Shadow Outlasts the Statesman
Richard Nixon opened China to the United States in 1972. No Democratic president could have done it — the political cost of looking soft on Communism would have been fatal. Nixon had built his career on anti-Communism, which gave him cover. The same president who expanded the Vietnam War and carpet-bombed Cambodia also created the EPA, signed the Clean Air Act, and established the first diplomatic relations between the U.S. and China in 25 years. Then Watergate. He resigned August 9, 1974. He died April 22, 1994.
April 22, 1994
32 years ago
What Else Happened on April 22
chute d'Athènes assiégée par Lysandre lors de la bataille d'Aigos Potamos.
durante el año de los seis emperadores, el Senado romano prohíbe al emperador Maximino el Tracio por sus proscripciones sanguinarias en Roma y nomina a dos de s…
The Senate just outlawed a man named Maximinus Thrax for ordering mass executions in Rome itself. Then, terrified and desperate, they shoved two old senators, P…
ولادة الرسول محمد بن عبد الله.
Basile II est associé au trône de Constantinople par son père Romain II.Gravure de la forteresse de la Bastille de Paris Est au XVIIIe siècle
In Angkor wird der Banteay Srei, einer der kunstvollsten Tempel der Region, zu Ehren des Gottes Shiva eingeweiht.
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