August 8th In NYC History
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On this date in...
1885...City Hall is draped in black as the funeral procession for former President Ulysses S. Grant marches up Fifth Avenue.
1974...New Yorkers and the nation watch as President Richard Nixon announces his resignation amid the Watergate scandal.