0623 Today in History
June 23rd, 1972 in Washington, a key moment for President Richard Nixon and his Chief of Staff HR Haldeman during the Watergate scandal. They discussed using the CIA to block the FB is probe of the break in at Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex. This is sort of comedy errors, bizarre without getting into it. Nixon resigns more than two years later, soon after this White House conversation is made public on what's known as the Smoking Gun tape. 1940. During World War Two, Nazi Germany's leader Adolf Hitler visits France's capital Paris a day after that country falls to his 3rd Reich, 1868 inventor Christopher Latham Scholes receives a patent for his typewriter. The first machines reached the market in the following decade, 1995. It was possible to do something about it, and that freed the parents of fear and freed the children to live a normal life. Doctor Jonas Salk, who developed the first vaccine to halt the crippling rampage of polio, dies in La Jolla, CA. He was 80 and 2006 TV producer Aaron spelling dies in Los Angeles at age 83. Among his hit series Charlie's Angels, Love Boat Dynasty, Beverly Hills 9, O2 One O and Melrose Place, Today in History June 23rd Mike Grazia, The Associated Press.