TODAY IN HISTORY: The Watergate Break-in

It was the duct tape that changed history.

On June 17, 1976, private security guard Frank Wills was making his rounds of the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. when he noticed some duct tape on a door lock. He removed the piece of tape. When he returned a little later, he found the duct tape had been replaced in an obvious attempt to keep the door from locking. Willis called the D.C. police and five men were arrested in the "third-rate burglary" that led to the downfall of Richard M. Ni