- 1978 – San Franciso Supervisor Harvey Milk, a pioneering openly gay elected official, was gunned down at City Hall. The same gunman shot and killed Mayor George Moscone. More: The Assassination of Harvey Milk.
- 1973 – The United States Senate voted 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States under Pres. Richard Nixon. (On December 6, the House confirmed him 387 to 35). [Wiki]
– Ford replaced Vice Pres. Spiro Agnew, who had resigned to face corruption charges related to his term as governor of Maryland. Vice Pres. Ford assumed the presidency on August 9, 1974, when Pres. Nixon resigned in order to avoid impeachment during the Watergate scandal. [JP]
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