1973:Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns as part of a deal involving tax evasion and contract kickback charges. He pleads no contest and is fined $10,000.
1935: George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, widely considered America’s greatest opera, premieres in New York.
1957: President Dwight Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian diplomat Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, who was told to leave a Howard Johnson dining room because he was black.
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