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On this day in 1973, in the midst of the Watergate scandal that eventually ended his presidency, President Richard Nixon tells a group of newspaper editors gathered at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, that he is ânot a crook.â. Nixon made the now-famous declaration during a televised question-and-answer session with Associated Press editors.
Sir William Crookes, OM, FRS (17 June 1832 â 4 April 1919) was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, London, and worked on spectroscopy.He was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing the Crookes tube which was made in 1875.n 1855 he was appointed lecturer in chemistry at the Chester Diocesan Training College. In 1856 he married Ellen, daughter of William Humphrey of Darlington. They had three sons and a daughter.