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1996 Laura La Plante, screen actress (Show Boat, Scandal), dies at 91

1995 "School after Scandal" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 23 performances

1995 "School for Scandal" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 23 performances

1990 John Poindexter (National Security Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal

1987 Jim and Tammy Bakker appear on "Nightline" after PTL scandal

1987 PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns after sex scandal with Jessica Hahn

1985 Tulane University cancels its basketball season amidst scandal

1981 Samuel Barber, U.S. composer (School for Scandal), dies at 70

1979 South African President Vorster resigns due to scandal

1977 Octavus L "Octave" van Aerschot, actor (Scandal in Paris), dies at 87

1976 Wayne Hays, Representative-D-Ohio 1949 - 1976, resigns after scandal with Elizabeth Ray

1973 President Nixon released 1st White House tapes on Watergate scandal

1973 Acting FBI director L Patrick Gray resigns after admitting he destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal

1973 Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal

1972 1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)

1964 Bridget Fonda, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Scandal, Single White Female

1959 WABC fires Alan Freed over payola scandal

1958 TV game show scandal investigation starts

1951 "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, of baseball's black sox scandal, dies

1938 Michael Deaver, politician/influence peddler, S&L scandal

1930 Iain Cuthbertson, British actor, Guilty, Scandal, Rep, Danger UXB

1923 Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal

1921 Due to a technicality, 8 Chicago White Sox accused in Black Sox scandal are acquited, however Landis throws them out of baseball

1920 Chicago grand jury indicts Abe Attell, Hal Chase, and Bill Burns as go-betweens in Black Sox World Series scandal

1920 8 White Sox indicted, threw 1919 World Series (Black Sox scandal)

1919 Reds beat White Sox, 5 games to 3 in 16th World Series. This series is known as black sox scandal as 8 White Sox throw series

1919 World Series begins as a best of 9 affair, White Sox intentionally throw this series to satisfy gamblers (Black Sox Scandal)

1913 William J. Casey, headed CIA during Iran-contra scandal, 1981-87

1910 Samuel Barber, born in Westchester, Pennsylvania, composer, Pulitz, School for Scandal

1904 John J. Sirica, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, John Joseph Sirica, judge, Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, presided over Watergate scandal, Time magazine Person of the Year, 1973

1888 Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "A Scandal in Bohemia"

1873 Panic sweeps New York Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure) New York shut banks for 10 days due to a bank scandal

1873 U.S. Congress begins investigating Credit Mobilier scandal

1777 RB Sheridans "School for Scandal," premieres in London


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