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Events on Tuesday 17 September 1996 1
1918 – 1996Spiro Agnew (1918-1996)Died 17 September 1996, aged 77Spiro Agnew served as the 39th Vice President of the United States under Richard Nixon before resigning in 1973 amid a criminal investigation into bribery and tax evasion. He pleaded no contest to a single charge and left office in disgrace. He spent his later years as a businessman largely out of public life.