1973 “The Saturday night massacre.” Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus resign after President Richard Nixon orders them to fire special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox.
1967: An all-white jury in Mississippi finds seven of 18 defendants guilty of conspiring to kill three civil rights activists near Philadelphia, Miss., in 1964.
1977: Three members of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a plane crash in Mississippi.
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