History Today: How a burglary unravelled the Watergate scandal

One of the United States' biggest political scandals unfolded following the arrest of five burglars on June 17, 1972. The effect was such that President Richard Nixon had to resign from public office, the only president to have done so. On this day in 1994, former NFL star and actor OJ Simpson was formally charged with the murders of his ex-wife and her friend, leading to one of the most highly publicised and controversial criminal trials in American history

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