By Alberto Gomez, Entertainment Editor
Oct. 15, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his exile
Napoleon is sent to Saint Helena to live out the last six years of his life. He would inevitably die of stomach cancer on May 5, 1821.
Oct. 16, 1701, Yale is founded
Yale is founded by Congregationalist Ministers after claims that Harvard had become far too liberal and needed a more Christian ideal.
Oct. 18, 1945, Venezuelan coup
President of Venezuela Isaías Medina Angarita is overthrown by the Democratic Action party. Institutes Venezuela’s first participatory democracy.
Oct. 19, 1718, British General Cornwallis
surrenders at Yorktown
The final battle of the American Revolutionary War finally ends as General Cornwallis is surrounded by George Washington’s troops. Cornwallis would later claim illness as his excuse to not attend the formal surrender ceremony.
Oct. 19, 1973, Nixon refuses to turn over Watergate tapes
Former President Richard Nixon is perhaps one of the most infamous modern presidents. Having been plagued by controversy, President Nixon spent the entirety of his short-lived second presidency haunted by what has become known as the Watergate scandals.
Leading up to what would become the Saturday Night Massacre, Nixon’s Committee for the Reelection of the President, colloquially known as CREEP, had broken into a Democratic party convention to wiretap and sneak information on the president’s opposition. After being caught red-handed on June 17, 1972, the Watergate investigations begin, inevitably leading to the then president’s resignation from office.
On Oct. 19, 1973, after months of being pushed by Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, President Nixon openly announces that he will not turn over secret recordings of conversations he had been hoarding in the Oval Office. Recordings that suggest collusion and attempts to interfere with the ‘72 election.