Video: 'Fedex and UPS Documentary' (April 17, 1973 at 3:44)
(Tuesday, April 17, 1973) –Federal Express (later FedEx) began operations today as 14 Dassault Falcon 20s carrying 186 packages took off from Memphis International Airport, bound for 25 U.S. cities.
Video: Apr. 17, 1973 (at 16:26)
(Tuesday, April 17, 1973; during the Watergate scandal) — U.S. President Richard Nixon, aware that White House Counsel John Dean is talking to the Watergate investigators, asks Dean to resign, passing him a drafted letter written in the form of a confession. Nixon also tells Dean that he is also planning to remove two of his top aides Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman.
