The firings and resignations known as the Saturday Night Massacre took place on this day in 1973, during the Watergate scandal. / On this day in 1951, a white football player for Oklahoma A&M assaulted a Black player for Drake University named Johnny Bright in an incident that was suspected to be racially motivated.

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