On this 9th August, two anniversaries of regime change. Firstly the resignation in 1974 of US President Richard Nixon, following the Watergate scandal. His vice president Gerald Ford replaced him, thus becoming the only US president never to have been elected president or vice-president. He had been appointed vice-president the previous year, when Nixon's first vice-president, Spiro Agnew, resigned amidst criminal charges of corruption.
Although the US republicans recovered from that low point, the Roman republican cause never recovered after the its defeat at the battle of Pharsalus on August 9th, 48 BC. Republican forces under Pompey were beaten back when they tried to attack the legions that Julius Caesar controlled as governer of Gaul; and ultimately, Caesar was able effectively to convert Rome into an empire (though he got assassinated before he had a chance to become its first emperor).
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