October 10 - Spiro T. Agnew resigns as vice president of the United States and then, in federal court in Baltimore, pleads no contest to charges of evasion of income taxes on $29,500 he received in 1967 while he was governor of Maryland. He is fined $10,000 and put on three years' probation.
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January 7 - The distress signal[?] "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS."
February 7 ...