On this day, Feb. 21, in 1975, former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to up to eight years in prison in the Watergate scandal.

The scandal began with the arrest of five men, accused of breaking and entering the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972.

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