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.
... extent) in promoting the take-up of digital television.
BBC News 24 broadcasts from the BBC News Centre in BBC Television Centre, West London.
See also: List of ...