On This Day 1945: 2 1/2 months after the surrender of Nazi Germany, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill - the defiant statesman who led Britain through its darkest yet finest hour - was turned out of office by voters who wanted a postwar change 
On This Day. 1953: Dwight Eisenhower, president for six months, made good on a 1952 campaign pledge and ended the Korean War. A truce was signed - no peace treaty - meaning that officially a state of war remains in effect today. 36,914 Americans died in less than three years
On This Day. 1965. Following the U.S. surgeon general's warning that cigarettes caused cancer and other diseases, President Johnson signed a bill requiring manufacturers to put warning labels on packs of smokes, beginning a long, steady decline in U.S. smoking rates
On This Day. 1974: President Nixon was formally charged, by the House Judiciary Committee, with three counts of impeachment in the Watergate scandal. The charges included obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and the unconstitutional defiance of its subpoenas /1
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Nixon — who had refused to release tape recordings concerning the June 1972 Watergate break in (the 6/17 break in was actually the second one) and cover up—would resign from office two weeks later - the first and only president to resign
Nixon — who had refused to release tape recordings concerning the June 1972 Watergate break in (the 6/17 break in was actually the second one) and cover up—would resign from office two weeks later - the first and only president to resign
