On this day: November 1
POSTED: 10:34 PM PDT Oct 31, 2012
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Oct 31, 2012
The Sistine Chapel's ceiling is unveiled, the National Weather Service makes its first forecast, the U.S. explodes its first hydrogen bomb, and Honda opens its first U.S. factory, all on this day.
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1973: Leon Jaworski is appointed the new Watergate special prosecutor, less than two weeks after the Oct. 20 "Saturday Night Massacre," President Richard Nixon's dismissal of special prosecutor Archibald Cox and the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. Jaworski would end up subpoenaing Nixon for tapes of White House conversations and taking the case to the Supreme Court, which ordered Nixon to give Jaworski unedited version of the tapes.
