On July 27, 1974 -- Senate Judiciary begins Impeachment of Richard M. Nixon

from History Channel feature: "On This Day In History"

On July 27 in 1974, the House Judiciary Committee recommends that America's 37th president, Richard Milhouse Nixon,  be impeached and removed from office. The impeachment proceedings resulted from a series of political scandals involving the Nixon administration that came to be collectively known as Watergate.

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