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.
... of 8.7/km² (22.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 46.37% White, 44.23% African American, 0.85% Native American, 0.85% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, ...