1974: Richard Nixon resigned as President of the United States as the House Judiciary Committee adopted Articles of Impeachment on July 27, 1974.

1945: The second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki bringing an end to World War II.

1814: Major General Andrew Jackson, "Old Hickory," signed the Treaty of Fort Jackson ending the Creek War. The agreement provided for the surrender of twenty-three million acres of Creek land to the United States. This vast territory encompassed more than half of present-day Alabama and part of southern Georgia. The war began on August 30, 1813, when a faction of Creeks known as the Red Sticks - because of their red war clubs - attacked American settlers at Fort Mims, near Lake Tensaw, Alabama, north of Mobile. (Source: Library of Congress)