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recommend the impeachment of President Richard Nixon. (The committee ended up adopting three articles of impeachment against the president, who resigned before the full House took up any of them.)
• In 1980, 35 people were killed when a freighter rammed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida, causing a 1,400-foot section of the southbound span to collapse.
• In 1994, South Africa's newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country's first black president.
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• Ten years ago: A bomb planted by Caucasus rebels destroyed the VIP section at a stadium during a Victory Day celebration in the Chechen capital of Grozny, killing some two dozen people, including the province's president, Akhmad Kadyrov (kuh-DEE'-ruhv). Canada rallied to beat Sweden for the second straight year in the gold-medal game at the world hockey championships, 5-3. Comedian Alan King died in New York at age 76.
• Five years ago: The top religious adviser to Jordan's king thanked visiting Pope Benedict XVI for expressing regret after a 2006 speech that many Muslims deemed insulting to the Prophet Muhammad. Pakistani warplanes pounded the Taliban-held Swat Valley in what the country's prime minister called a "war of the country's survival."
• One year ago: Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who had irked Washington with his frequent criticism of U.S. military operations in his country, said his government was ready to let U.S. have nine bases across Afghanistan after the withdrawal of most foreign forces in 2014. A 72-foot-long, high-tech catamaran sailboat capsized in San Francisco Bay while practicing for the America's Cup races, killing English Olympic gold medalist Andrew "Bart" Simpson. Malcolm Shabazz, 29, grandson of civil rights activist Malcolm X, died in Mexico City of blunt trauma injuries sustained in a bar dispute.
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• Today's Birthdays: Actress Geraldine McEwan is 82. Actor-writer Alan Bennett is 80. Rock musician Nokie Edwards (The Ventures) is 79. Actor Albert Finney is 78. Actress-turned-politician Glenda Jackson is 78. Producer-director James L. Brooks is 77. Musician Sonny Curtis (Buddy Holly and the Crickets) is 77. Singer Tommy Roe is 72. Singer-musician Richie Furay (Buffalo Springfield and Poco) is 70. Actress Candice Bergen is 68. Pop singer Clint Holmes is 68. Actor Anthony Higgins is 67. Singer Billy Joel is 65. Blues singer-musician Bob Margolin is 65. Rock singer-musician Tom Petersson (Cheap Trick) is 64. Actress Alley Mills is 63. Actress Amy

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